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Old Feb 12, 2008 | 10:45 pm
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Originally Posted by alex1948
That's quite true.

In fact, biz class fares ex-Dubai to New York are a bargain by comparison with what Londoners have to pay out of Heathrow with BA.

I checked with ba.com for travel LHR-JFK in biz class for March 3 and returning March 7. BA's cheapest biz class fare is GBP3,583 which equates to Dhms 25,887.

And consider that the air mileage for Dubai-New York is twice that of London-New York
I know it is cheaper to fly ex-DXB to US, rather the other way round.
But the price hike is what I am talking about.
For eg:
Around Dec time, a RT DXB-JFK was around 15,570AED.
Now, the same ticket costs around 18,860 AED.

Now to send my employees in J costs my company more than 17.5%. Thats a dent on our budget.
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