"Howard Rose" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 May 2005 21:58:50 +0100, "R.N. Robinson"
wrote:

While we are on the subject of airlines, a few weeks ago we were flying to
San Francisco and glancing down at the plane on our way to the gate at
Heathrow we noticed that a very beautiful 250 GTO Ferrari was being loaded
into its hold. Not sure how much it cost to fly it a third of the way
round
the world, but compared with the Jumbo it looked very small!

I would guess compared with the cost of the car, the transportation
fee to fly it around the world would be a mere pocket change!

When my Uncle's family moved from Hong Kong, they wanted to ship their
Audi back to the UK. They found out that it was only slightly more
expensive to have it delivered by air than to ship it by sea. I can't
remember the actual costs now though.


Interesting, and in this case when you think of the combination of Italian
aluminium and sea water I would reckon any extra cost would be well worth it
;-)

Ron Robinson