AIRHITCH® REGISTRATION PAGE -- SIGN UP HERE!

Benefits and drawbacks of registering


NOTE: This form is NOT a simple request for a price quote. If you need to know about costs, click here. By submitting this form, you are actually signing up for and engaging to the Airhitch® program and becoming part of the Airhitch® community at least for your current trip. It is optional (though strongly recommended!), but constitutes an actual engagement to the Airhitch® process, and should not be undertaken lightly, for if you fill it out completely and correctly, and submit it, you will be "logically" on your way to your destination region, as it provides us with all the info we need to help get you going!  So, if it is not your immediate intention to sign up for Airhitch® at this time, please do not fill out this form (or, at least, don't click "Submit"!). Our online staff at Airhitch®  (airhitch-at-gmail-dot-com* or info-at-airhitch-dot-org*) will be happy to assist you via email and/or instant messaging by answering any questions, not answered herein or elsewhere on this website, that you might have, prior to registering. Thank you.

* To see why we do not use the at-sign or dot in giving you our email addresses, click here.

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Instructions: Fill out the CGI form below (or, if it's easier for you, you can download a text copy of the registration form, suitable for pasting into an email, by clicking here). Be sure to fill in all info relevant to this trip! When you're done filling in all the info, if you are definitely committed to making this trip, you can submit it via the Web (by clicking "Submit" once at the bottom of the CGI form) or via plaintext email (by clicking the "Send" button on your email client). Or, if you just want to "play pretend" to see what happens when you sign up, then don't click "Submit" or hit "Send" -- nothing will happen if you just kill the page, we won't even know you exist! Note that no matter what, you will not have to pay out ANY MONEY until you BOARD A FLIGHT HEADING TOWARD WHERE YOU WANT TO GO. This is part of the BASIC AIRHITCH® ETHOS, and if you want to know the reasons for it, click here. If you would like to know the various benefits and drawbacks of registration, click here!

**TECH NOTE**: Users of some browsers, notably some versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and also certain connection sites and ISPs, notably AOL, have found that their browsers/sites/ISPs do not handle CGI forms properly, so, especially if you use Internet Explorer, we would strongly urge you to use the text-only form plus regular email, instead. Or, if you elect to use this CGI form, and do not hear from us within a few hours, THEN switch to text-only.

Need interactive assistance with registration? If so, you can "talk" to us via this chat window! But, NOT ANONYMOUSLY (due to problems we have had with abuse and harassment): you'll need to edit your nickname below the window to your first and last name as they appear on your student id (if you're a student) or (if you're not) on your passport or whatever photo id you normally use to board airplanes with. If your nickname has been properly edited but you don't get a more or less instant response, it could  be for a number of reasons, which are enumerated here, along with corrective action you can take for each respective reason.



SIGN ME UP!!!

[Hey! Psst! Have you read the  instructions? You haven't? Uhoh...THAT'S A NO-NO! So click  here!]

Please register me for Airhitch® (and/or Sunhitch®) as follows, subject to the terms and conditions behind this hyperlink, which I (or my lawyer!) have read and understood.

Names, exactly as they appear on ID document you will use to board aircraft (if you are traveling between the US and Europe, or between the US and the Caribbean Basin, this must be a passport), of all passengers who will be traveling together as a traveling party:
Name 
Country issuing passport & passport number* 
Passenger 1 (Lead Passenger)


 
Passenger 2



Passenger 3



Passenger 4



Passenger 5


Passenger 6

*If you are traveling between the U.S. MAINLAND and HAWAII, you don't need a passport, but you DO need some form of gov't-issued photo id (like, e.g., a driver's license), so put the type of ID, whoever issued it, and its no. in the appropriate box for each passenger.

Street Address (of lead passenger) (NO P.O. BOX!)

Street Address (of lead passenger) -- 2nd line if necessary 

City State  Zip/PostalCode

Country 

Phone

Fax

E-mail address


Outbound trip

Outbound Airhitch® from (region)  To (region)

Airhitch® date-range (minimum realistic: 3 days)
Earliest possible departure date:

Latest possible departure date:  

Origin Preferences * : 1st pref.  2nd pref.  3rd pref. 

Destination Preferences * : 1st pref.  2nd pref.  3rd pref. 

* NOTE: These preferences are ONLY preferences, NOT "choices": you can only "choose" from what turns out to be available, however, chances are very good that at least some of them will be available.


Return trip (optional)

Return Airhitch® from (region) 

To (region) 

Airhitch® date-range (minimum realistic: 3 days [except between 20jul & 04sep, from Europe, 7 days])
Earliest possible departure date: 

Latest possible departure date:  

Origin Preferences * : 1st pref .  2nd pref.  3rd pref. 

Destination Preferences * : 1st pref.  2nd pref.  3rd pref. 

* NOTE: These preferences are ONLY preferences: by no means can Airhitch® guarantee them, however, chances are very good that you will get at least some of them.


REFERRAL HISTORY:

Have you ever Airhitch®ed before? 

If "No", how were you introduced to, or did you discover, Airhitch®? 


COST-CALCULATION SECTION:

[Fill in only those boxes that apply; if you need estimated-cost figures, click here.] 

Outbound (skip this section if only Sunhitch®):

Airhitch® Europe base cost......$
( + taxes: $56 eb or $86 wb)... $
total cost incl. taxes..........$(x  passengers) = $ 
Airhitch® USA (Hawaii)..........$(x  passengers) = $ 
Voluntary donation to Airhitch® $   29* (x  passengers) = $ 

                                                TOTAL OUTBOUND = $ 

  
Return (skip this section if one-way only or Sunhitch®):

Airhitch® Europe base cost......$
( + taxes: $56 eb or $86 wb)....$
total cost incl. taxes..........$(x  passengers) = $ 
Airhitch® USA (Hawaii)..........$(x  passengers) = $ 
Voluntary donation to Airhitch® $   29* (x  passengers) = $ 

                                                  TOTAL RETURN = $ 


                                         TOTAL OUTBOUND+RETURN = $ 


Sunhitch® (skip this section if only Airhitch®):

SUNHITCH®(ROUND-TRIP, 1-WEEK)...$
( + taxes: $88).................$
total cost incl. taxes..........$(x  passengers) = $ 
Voluntary donation to Airhitch® $   29* (x  passengers) = $ 


                   FedEx+Special Handling, where applicable.** = $ 

ESTIMATED GRAND TOTAL NET EFFECTIVE CASH OUTLAY TO BE REMITTED = $ 

LOWEST TOTAL NET-EFFECTIVE CASH OUTLAY (NECO) YOU HAVE SO FAR 
FOUND OFFERED*** ON THE WEB FROM OTHER SOURCES, FOR THIS TRIP  = $ 
*  This donation is totally voluntary and thus tax-deductible if you pay taxes in the U.S. (and most other countries); it functions as an expression of appreciation for the existence of Airhitch® and the benefits it brings to the community of budget unstructured exploratory travelers, a gesture of solidarity and goodwill toward that community, and a contribution to the likelihood that Airhitch® will be around in the future, when you need it. You can refuse to pledge it, by simply leaving the field blank; however, for obvious reasons, during flight-briefings in the Airhitch® chatroom, people who donate will be given priority treatment over those who don't, and those who don't will be constantly nagged to change their minds!

** People from "the old days" (pre-Internet) of Airhitch remember that you used to have to have a piece of paper, called a "voucher", in order to board your flight. But since the advent of cyber, the FedEx charge almost never applies since paper has been virtually eliminated from the Airhitch® process, and replaced by a simple, 6-character "ABC" (Airhitch Boarding Code) which, if it turns out that you need one,  you get online during your flight-briefing! In the highly unlikely event (it hasn't happened AT ALL since 2001!) you should need to pay for a FedEx in order for us to get paper into your hands, the cost will depend on where you are when you receive your Airhitch® voucher(s), i.e., where you ask us to send it/them, not where you are going. 

*** "Offered" means presented as the actual effective cost amount which would be debited to your credit-card if you booked the flight(s). Since there is often, on transportation-provider websites, a disparity between INDICATED costs prior to transacting the actual reservation and the actual effective cost which gets debited to your card (the latter is virtually ALWAYS higher!), you will need to take careful note of the actual effective cost by taking the paging of the website right up to the page where you are being asked to enter your credit-card info, to see how much is effectively being asked (obviously, you will not want to actually enter your credit-card data unless you actually want to effect the transaction, as your credit-card will almost certainly be debited instantly by the transportation-provider whose site you are visiting!).
Note that you almost certainly will NOT need anything sent to you via FedEx, as paper has become outmoded and unnecessary with the world moving towards totally-electronic boarding; however, we need to get your authorization for FedEx charges "just in case", i.e., in the highly unlikely event you should turn out to need a FedEx shipment sent to you. Note that the system will remove your authorization from your reg. form if vouchers (and thus FedEx) turn out to not be necessary!

CREDIT-CARD AUTHORIZATION SECTION:

I hereby authorize the current licensed Airhitch® Operating Company or Airhitch®'s sponsoring non-profit organization, the Co-op for International and Intercultural Experience, to charge the amount shown above as "ESTIMATED GRAND TOTAL NET EFFECTIVE CASH OUTLAY TO BE REMITTED", upon my having boarded an Airhitchable flight across an ocean, or upon otherwise having received my permission to do so via direct interactive online cyberchat, my  Number: Exp. Date:

Name (as it appears on the card):

3-digit verification code from reverse of card (last three digits on right, in signature box)

Billing address for card if different from shipping address given above
(include street address, city, state, zip, and any other address info exactly as shown on cardholder's monthly statement):

I understand my credit-card account will not be debited without my further explicit, specific permission transmitted in subsequent email or interactive chat via the Internet, or after I have boarded a departing aircraft flying my generic Airhitching itinerary, either as described above or as modified by further agreement by me, whichever occurs first. I also understand that boarding an aircraft constitutes my agreement to the generic itinerary being flown by the aircraft.

By my submission of this registration by electronic medium, I am affirming that I have read and understood the terms and conditions under which access to the Airhitch® system is being extended to me, and agree to them.

[Note: when you click the "submit" button, if your Airhitch® reg. has been submitted properly, you should see pop open on your screen a browser window containing an acknowledgment from us that either (a) the CGI form has been successfully submitted, OR, (b) there was some problem encountered in submission, along with brief instrux on how to solve the problem and resubmit. If you see (a), then you can expect to receive, via email, within a reasonable period of time (it varies depending on how much demand we are experiencing), the promised reply, which consists of a REGistration ACKnowledgment ("REGACK") notifying you that we received your reg. and telling you exactly how to proceed. If, on the other hand, you see (b), you will, of course, need to correct whatever errors you are informed of by that window and resubmit.

But, if you do not see either of these windows, do not repeatedly click the "submit" button as that could result in flooding us with multiple copies of your registration. Instead, minimize all windows on your desktop one by one, and if you finish minimizing them and still don't see (a) or (b), we strongly urge you to send us a regular email, to the address info-at-airhitch-dot-org* with the "return receipt requested" function of sendmail enabled, informing us of your problem. In any event, after you submit your registration, if you do not hear back from us within 24 hours, you can assume that WE DID NOT GET IT, because we normally respond to all email, including CGI submissions, WITHIN 2-4 HOURS (but give it 24 hours to be safe...we may be backlogged!)]

[Note again: If your email address given in your reg. indicates to our system that you have an Instant Messaging account of any kind, you may receive contact via IM in lieu of an emailed registration acknowledgment, so if you are on gmail chat or Jabber (gmail.com), AIM (aol.com), MSN Messenger (hotmail.com), or Yahoo Messenger (yahoo.com), one good way to check to see whether we have received your reg. is to log into your account and "talk" to us about it, and in fact you can even do that even WITHOUT ANY IM ACCOUNT through the chat window on this page.]

* To see why we do not use the at-sign or dot in giving you our email addresses, click here.

Airhitch® Transportation Costs


(Note that the costs shown below are ESTIMATED COSTS based on the statistical mode of what Airhitchers have had to pay over the entire history of Airhitch®, and account for the ONLY payment you will have to make to anyone under ordinary circumstances in order to board a flight from your region of origin to your destination region; however, depending on how your Airhitching endeavor unfolds, and the resulting degree of approximation to your desired specific itinerary, you MAY have to disburse minimal and marginal additional payments directly to "auxiliary transportation-providers" other than the one(s) the Airhitch® community points you to, in order to position yourself to take advantage of your "Airhitchable hop" across the bulk of the distance. NOTE: The costs shown below do NOT include taxes & fees assessed by governments nor a $29 per-person-per-leg tax-deductible voluntary "backout  donation" (which, by registering, you are hereby pledging in case you change your mind, once you've launched the Airhitch®/TargetFlight® process, and decide not to fly on what you find as a result of the process), which should be added in the appropriate location on your registration form in order to accurately calculate your probable costs:



  From... To...
Basic  cross-corridor transportation cost (US$)
Airhitch® Europe Back to top of interactive reg. form Back to top of cost-calculation section  
  US East/Northeast Europe
$165*
  US Midwest or Southwest Europe
$199*
  US West Coast/PacNW Europe
$233*
  US Southeast Europe
$177* 
  Back to top of interactive reg. form * plus $56 in eastbound taxes, customs & immigration fees, and possible "fuel surcharges", & $29 non-refundable backout donation.
  Europe US East/Northeast
$165*
  Europe US Midwest or Southwest
$199*
  Europe US West Coast/PacNW
$233*
  Europe US Southeast
$177*
  Back to top of interactive reg. form * plus $86 in westbound taxes, customs & immigration fees, and possible"fuel surcharges", & $29 non-refundable backout donation.
Airhitch® USA   Back to top of cost-calculation section
  West Coast Hawaii
$139
  Hawaii West Coast
$139

Sunhitch® (all charges ROUND-TRIP, returning one week after departure**, plus $88 in round-trip taxes, plus $29 non-refundable backout donation) Back to top of cost-calculation section
 
  Between... and...  
  Northeast Caribbean Basin/Mexico***
$199 
  Midwest/Southwest/Southeast Caribbean Basin/Mexico***
$117
  Calif. Caribbean Basin/Mexico***
$169
    ** Unless otherwise negotiated at check-in counter with transportation- provider.

*** The "Caribbean Basin" region is defined as all resort destinations in the Caribbean region including the Gulf of Mexico coast of Mexico (Cancun, Cozumel, Merida, etc.).



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