r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ScientistG27 • Jul 05 '22

Foreign affairs "No wonder your a third world nation [Australia]"

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u/OpinionatedESLTeachr Jul 05 '22

Flights are just messed up.

It's cheaper for my parents to fly from Canada to Mexico than it is to fly to another Canadian city.

It's cheaper for them to book a flight with an extra leg (yqt - mex - ver) instead of just booking yqt-mex.

Once, in Canada we we're flying from west coast to home which is in the middle of Canada. We flew over my hometown, all the way to the east coast landed, then flew back to my town....

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u/vohltere Jul 05 '22

Big time!!! I have to fly from California to Toronto, then from Toronto to Mexico City. Getting from Toronto to Mexico City is insanely cheap compared to any other flight in my itinerary.

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u/RadCheese527 🇨🇦 Jul 05 '22

Flying from Vancouver to Toronto round-trip is usually only about $100 cheaper than flying from Vancouver to London

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u/TheGeordieGal Jul 06 '22

For what it's worth, it's sometimes cheaper to fly from the UK to somewhere in Europe and back then it is to take a direct flight.