Hello Marco:
My name is Lidell Brooks, my church administrator and I also was intrested in attending the confrence in Copan, but we could not find a low fare. Taca is an airline that refuses to lower their fares for anything or anyone. In 2001 I contacted them concerning a trip that we were having to Roatan, we did a week of HIV/AIDS Awareness, TACA told me that they could not offer me any reduction in airfare price. We still went,via Sol Air.
In the year 2007 I would like to take a group of medical staff to Roatan again, I am wondering if your organization would be intrested in helping us to get there. I will be going to Roatan during the month of August.
I have prayed that Honduras would get their own airline, so that we can stop using TACA.
Hoping to hear from you.
Lidell
-----Original Message-----
From: Marco
To: Cristina Goodall
Cc: Armando Funes ; Roberto Galeano
Sent: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:17:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [travel-to-honduras] TACA discount program for Conference on Honduras 2006
Hi Cristina,
Thanks for writing and for putting together a proposed
TACA discount program for people who would be
traveling to attend the Conference on Honduras 2006 in
Copan Ruinas next October.
I have reviewed your proposal carefully. I truly
appreciate the offer of a 10% discount, but I must
tell you that that figure is not going to be anywhere
close to being an incentive for conferees to choose to
fly TACA. It certainly would not be for me. I
normally fly American Airlines via Miami, and I am
relatively happy with that company's service and
flight schedules to Honduras. It would take a
significant discount from TACA to encourage me to
change my routine.
Additionally, your proposal contains numerous
provisions that would have to be met in order to
qualify for the 10% discount. For example, the
discount would only apply to airfares over $320. It
would not be valid on already-discounted airfares. It
would only apply to tickets purchased directly from
TACA. And it would only apply to the airfares
available at the time of ticket purchase.
I am afraid that I cannot commit to this proposal
because I do not feel I can convince our conferees
that this would be a good deal for them. Airfares to
Honduras are extremely high. The only way I will
commit to recommending to our conferees that they fly
TACA is if we can establish a very simple and very
cheap discount program.
What I am really interested in is to have TACA as a
contributing supporter of the Conference on
Honduras... essentially a partner. At the moment, we
are averaging about 250 people per year at our event.
I intend to grow this number to about 400.
Establishing a simple, cheap, efficient, consistent
airfare discount program with an airline(s) will go a
long way to helping us attain this goal.
What I am looking for from TACA and from other
airlines such as American and Continental is a flat
fixed airfare for anyone registered to attend the
Conference on Honduras each year. That airfare needs
to be set at a standard rate for each departure
location. I will be glad to establish a dialogue with
you on what that standard needs to be in order for me
to recommend TACA to our conferees.
Personally, I can tell you that the only way I would
switch from American to TACA would be if I could
obtain a flat fixed airfare of no more than $400
roundtrip -- Washington, DC/Honduras. I would like to
ensure a flat fixed rate of no more than $200
roundtrip for flights out of Miami, Dallas, and
Houston.
I think that a reasonable pre-condition to a flat
fixed discounted airfare would be that the ticket(s)
be purchased at least one month in advance of the
travel date. If the airfare is flat fixed, then I
certainly do not see a problem obliging people to
purchase directly from TACA.
Ultimately, any discount program we establish with
TACA for the conference should be expanded to include
any "social tourist" who travels to Honduras
throughout the year to perform a volunteer social
service. There are more than 5,000 people within the
projecthonduras.com network. We estimate that there
are tens of thousands of people who travel annually to
Honduras as part of volunteer mission teams, as well
as groups involved in research and academic exchange
programs.
projecthonduras.com is trying to grow this sector of
Honduras' tourism market. But we can only do it if
airline ticket prices drop by half and remain stable
throughout the year. People want to visit Honduras to
contribute their time, energy, talents, and expertise
for the development of the country. Airline ticket
prices -- as expensive as they are -- are an
impediment to these type of travelers.
I'd love to do business with you and welcome TACA as a
partner on the Conference on Honduras and a broader
Social Tourism Program. Let me know.
Kind regards,
Marco
projecthonduras.com
--- Cristina Goodall wrote:
Estimado Marco,
Adjunto encontrara la propuesta para el descuento para
los participantes al congreso. También quería
mencionarle que para los participantes intra Honduras
se les podría proporcionar una tarifa grupal, no se si
le parece.
Si esta de acuerdo con los términos favor de enviarlo
firmado por este mismo medio.
Atentamente,
Cristina Goodall de Interiano
TACA El Salvador
Mercadeo
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