prideoflanarkshire
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Totally agree with scarecrow on this one, give the club a break eh! It is more expensive but gives you the added convenience of direct flights, transfers, accommodation. We aren't a big enough team with the economies of scale that larger teams would be able to attract with their larger fanbase in order to keep the cost down.
I'm sure that they have been trying as hard as possible to keep the costs down and must really have a "why the fuck do we bother" feeling when they read threads like this.
They only reason they bother is because the more fans that go the less the club need to pay, as part of the fans cost is to cover part of the clubs cost.
You say additional cost for transfer and accom, if they are direct flights then the transfer is 10 mins from airport - hotel, 5mins hotel to ground, surely a bus company could be used at a very competitive rate. Am going on a stag do with another 21 guys and its costing us £25 for a bus down to newcastle, drivers digs and home
Thats my opinion and am entitled to it, as are you.
I know a pilot very well and discussed this with him last night and he commented the cost of chartering a flight is not as expensive as it is first thought.
Am not having a go at the club at all and are grateful they are putting this option on.
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what do you mean allow? this is more expensive than travelling to denmark yourself but the club aren't stopping anyone from doing that. all the club charters have been a couple of hundred quid dearer than the trip could be done independently but they've all been well subscribed as far as i can tell.
it's always going to be more expensive. it obviously costs more to hire a plane for a one off occasion than it is for an airline to use one they own or lease. when my flight gets to denmark the plane will probably be cleaned, refueled and full of paying passengers again in a couple of hours, the club charter won't. booking one off ariport slots at short notice will be more expensive than block booking them for a long perid of time. thery're just a few of the things that push the price up.
What I mean by 'allow' is that many of people have stated they can only get one day off work, etc. I know there are other routes to get to odense and they are not stopped anyone booking off their own back, all I meant is that for many motherwell fans the charter flight is the only option, however, to pay double the price, is that reasonable, thats all am saying.
I know its more expensive to book a chartered flight, as you detail, however, if booking a hotel in block booking does that not reduce the cost, as it looks like am paying much less that the chartered option.
Also, as I said previously, I expect to pay extra but £200 - £300 per head does seem very expensive.
Am not having a go at the club as they could easily not put on any charter flight, mean many will lose out
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You are paying for someone else to do all the work on your behalf, ie organising flights, hotels, transfers etc. The Scotland trips with Passport Travel are the same. If you cannot afford two/three days off work then you pay the extra to leave house to airport fly have one night, match then fly home straight away. The Katowice charter was probably about the same cost in 1991 terms.
If you want to have a few days away then pay the lower rate, if you want a quick and everything organised for you trip then pay the extra and go via the charter.
No use in having a pop at the club.
Paying for someone to do the work - I arranged my whole trip in 15mins and never left my seat at work.
Am not having a go at the club, would just like them to explain why it so expensive.
I dont know how many seats are one the flight, however, say its 100 seats, that means its costing just under £60,000 to take 100 people from glasgow to odense, for an over night, and you dont think thats very very expensive?
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I may be wrong but I'd imagine the fans are helping subsidise (some of the cost) for the players/officials as well.
May feelings also, I feel we are getting the bad end of the stick and the club should be doing far more to allow more motherwell fans gain the experience with traveling with motherwell
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Can ANYONE within the club tell us why all three European away legs have cost between £500 - £600 to travel with motherwell?
The last two organised chartered flights, the cost to fly was between £500 - £600 with no over night, granted this away trip is including an over night within its price.
Why is it so expensive?
I understand the meaning of a 'chartered' flight, i.e. a flight route been orginised to accommodate a specific date, time, and destination requirement, however, on the above prices you could have a week in U.S.A or long haul (granted an over night watching Motherwell is much better).
Is anyone else concerned about this cost? I have booked up for 2 days, 1 night in odense and its costing me under £300 for the following:
Return flights to Copenhagen
Return train Copenhagen - Odense
1 night in decent accom.
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Nope, not a hope in hell will the BBC or a another ignore the Old Firm, Celtic this time, and not show them on the tv
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Sure we have an allocation of 750 tickets. I would be surprised if we take as many as that.
I think we could take more than 750 fans over there, hope we do should be a great trip
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I agree it will depend on the celtic game, however, I also think the BBC should ignore them simply because of celtic's ignorance in not allowing the BBC radio coverage of the home leg.
It will aslo dempend on Danish tv, if there is another game they want to show then they will pick that one and not our game. This happened when we played Aalesund, Danish tv showed Molde v Stuttgart, therefore, it was very hard to find a live stream
I am going to Denmark, as are many, so am sure the motherwell fans staying home will get min by min updates from us that are there
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The noise wasnt that great on thursday night due to the allocation of seats.
What i mean is the usual singers could not sit together as someone had bought a seat within the 'singing' end, therefore, there was no solid singing unit sitting together.
Also, there was alot of 'part-time' motherwell fans there that dont have the same passion. Are you likely to get up and sing if the others round about you are talking about what there missing on tv?
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