AIRHITCH® STEP-BY-STEP
SEVEN EASY STEPS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC...
GENTLE WARNING: READ THIS PAGE
ONLY IF:
(a) you're headed for EUROPE (or, if you're IN Europe, you're headed
back
to the U.S. or Canada); and
(b) your primary concern is to MINIMIZE YOUR COST in getting across the
Atlantic.
OTHERWISE...CLICK
HERE, or just head back to the
homepage! If you don't...you're just
gonna
get yourself ALL CONFUSED!!!
OK, so we didn't scare you off, you're still here! So here's the fundamental
essence of Airhitch®, the seven steps to Airhitch® heaven:
1. Visit our website and thoroughly
familiarize
yourself with our systems
and how they work. [Hey, guess what? You're already here!!!
LOL! But
now it's up to you to do your "homework" -- familiarize yourself with
how
this radically amazing process works! Start with the General
Info section
(but WAIT! NOT YET! Finish the rest of this page first! It's
not that
long,
really it's not!).] Once you're done, ask us questions (in chat or in email via
aoscentralemail-at-airhitch-dot-org*) if there's anything you don't
understand
from what you've read.
* To see why we do not use the at-sign or dot in giving you our
email
addresses, click here.
- 2. In order to REGISTER YOUR
INTENTIONS with us, fill out and submit
an AIRHITCH® REGISTRATION FORM (WAIT!
Don't click yet... read
the rest of this page first!) that best defines and describes, within
the confines
of the latitudes permitted by the system, the trip you want (note
that registering
your intentions costs nothing and commits you to nothing, leaving
you entirely free
to search out and compare other possibilities for accomplishing what
you're trying
to accomplish -- right up until the time you set foot on board a
departing aircraft!);
3. Recruit your ASP (see Step 6
below!) by the time you're "ready2roll"
(r2r), then, as
soon as you're r2r, or any
time thereafter, after preparing yourself by doing "a little home-
work" (see the CHATROOM PROTOCOL page), recontact the Airhitch® Online Staff
via cyberchat to start your FLIGHT-BRIEFING (FB), the
interactive, collaborative pro-
cess by which you'll get information on upcoming potentially Airhitchable
flights and how
to board them, i.e., info like their departure times, checkin
locations, itineraries, and
availability ratings, and also by which you'll inform us of any
changes in your travel
plans, or in any event, even if they haven't changed, how they "mesh"
with what's
available from among the flights the transportation-providers have
decided to make
available to Airhitchers;
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4. Decide which flight, from
among the flights you will have been told about,
best approximates your desired itinerary and/or seems likeliest to have
seats
on it from the availability ratings;
5. Visit the website for the
transportation-provider operating the flight on the
eve of its departure to double-check final flight details; and
6. Go to the airport, following
the boarding instructions associated with the flight,
and board the plane, if possible (it almost always is, if not, repeat
steps 4-6; but,
if you set up an "Airport Support Person" [ASP, a person you know who
cares about your welfare, to be at a 'net-connection while you are
actually at
the airport checking in and be in touch with you via voicephone], we
can coach
and guide you thru the process, which varies from flight to flight).
You set up an
ASP by just calling someone you know with a 'net-connection and
recruiting them,
and asking them to get in cybertouch with us sometime before you leave
for the airport!
(For more info about the concept of an ASP, send us an email, via the
email address
aoscentralemail-at-airhitch-dot-org* or here and reach us via "live" (Instant Message)
chat!)
* To see why we do not use the at-sign or dot in giving you our email
addresses, click here.
7. If you signed up for a return trip (you don't have to!),
repeat steps 3 thru 6
for your return. If you didn't sign up for a return trip when you left,
but feel like coming
back NOW, then repeat steps *1* thru 6!
-
The above process will result in you getting across the Atlantic, on flights
from as close
- to where you are as possible to as close to where you want to be
as possible, and
- back, if you want, at MINIMAL POSSIBLE "NET EFFECTIVE CASH OUTLAY"
- -- i.e., for a total of somewhere between $250
(one way, from/to the US or Canadian
- east coast) and $800 (both ways, from/to the US west coast)! And, yes, that's all there
- is to it...the
details will emerge from the process and take care of themselves -- the system
- and process are self-organizing!
-
But, the process can be "boiled down" to an even simpler three-step
process: (1) tell us
what you want to do; (2) get ready to do it (which includes, staying
in touch with us
to find out everything you need to know to do it); and (3)
based on the info we exchange,
JUST DO IT when the time comes to do it!
-
DATZ IT! NOW THAT WASN'T
-
SO TERRIBLE...WAS IT???????
I'M DOIN' IT! SIGN ME UP!!
I got it, but tell me more!
I'm STILL confused!
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