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Do you understand how expensive it is to take a taxi that far? Or the fact that taxi/rental car companies usually don't like you going over state lines?
by thunderstrike 9y ago
Do you understand how expensive it is to take a taxi that far? Or the fact that taxi/rental car companies usually don't like you going over state lines?
- mikeash 9y agoI'm sure it would cost several thousand dollars. Do you think it wouldn't be worth the cost?
- ghaff 9y agoIt may not have been practical for the flight crew because of hour on duty restrictions. But they could have transported 4 passengers for $1-2 k on a limo.
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- ghaff 9y agoFive hour limo rides are nothing out of the ordinary. Maybe a thousand dollars or two.
- mjevans 9y agoRight, that's the ballpark of the 'natural ceiling' for how much they should be willing to pay (at maximum) for a solution involving deferring passengers; also in /real money/.
- surement 9y agoCare to elaborate? I've never had any trouble going over country lines, let alone state lines, in a rental car.
- mikeash 9y agoI've occasionally had rental companies limit me to nearby states, but they usually don't care. When they do care, I'm certain they can be made to stop caring if you apply enough money to it.
- darklajid 9y agoRental cars (booked in Germany or Switzerland) often included restrictions for me. Most of the time they excluded a number of eastern/balkan states, quoting (if they offered reasons at all) insurance prices would be higher. The more expensive the car, the more likely were these limitations: Booking a Golf was 'go anywhere', booking a BMW 5-something .. not so much.
- nommm-nommm 9y agoCompletely irrelevant. We aren't talking about Germany or driving to other countries, that's totally different. We are talking about travel within one's own country. I would expect rental car companies to limit travel to foreign countries.
- darklajid 9y agoNice use of 'we' there. I implore you to read the post I specifically replied to once more. That post explicitly talks about crossing country lines.
- nommm-nommm 9y agoWe = this article and the commenters on this article. We are commenting on travel between two US states, nothing to do with crossing country lines. The grandparent topic was, specifically, about ground transportion for four Americans from one part of the US to another part of the US.
- mikeash 9y agoWell, this whole subthread is about an American airline operating in the US. (And yes, you can potentially drive a car across an international border from the US!)
- nommm-nommm 9y agoRental car companies don't like you going over state lines? What? That's ridiculously untrue. I've never ever ever heard of anything like that and I never didn't take a rental car over state lines. I always read the fine print and I've used several companies.
- dx034 9y agoWith Uber or a private cab company probably around $1,500. That's $375 per crew member, less than offered for IDB (if it had been offered in cash).