Humanity evolves !
Its the same everywhere … with a pricetag.
Yes. On my last visit to Skiathos in May last year, the payment process was very quick and smooth. Lightyears ahead of the “old” procedure. Well, it was also lightyears more expensive…, but still, not a bad experience overall.
boscomantico wrote:
But now that all is usually paid through the handler, it works much better,
Yes but at a HANDLER’s extra cost of 12% “disbursement fee”.
Nothing comes for free in this flying life !
Well practically if you want to save that 12% you can insist in going to the CAA, FRAPORT, whatever, office and paying it yourself, but if you weigh it against the potential misery it will give you after such a nice flight … its worth the extra cost. Thats the verdict from most pilots !
Hehe, you are telling all the tricks… :-)
Seriously, this didn’t use to work so well, back in the days when you had to physcially go to the “CAA office” to pay the landing and pax fees (and some of the CAA guys were very keen on that). But now that all is usually paid through the handler, it works much better, since the handling guys don’t seem to care how much the CAA earns in terms of pax fees….
Correct.
I should have said this is only for AOPA Hellas cards.
Anyway, sending a card copy in advance via email is not a big hassle.
They ask for it because many pilots have asked for AOPA discount, turned up at the airport, invoices were issued and then when asked for the card they said “ooops I forgot it” etc. etc. and insisted on the discount …
petakas wrote:
They don’t need the card copy since they can VERIFY its validity if they have the name surname and number by going to www.aopa.gr —> Members —> Member Card …
It doesn’t work with my Swedish AOPA card.
Thanks for sharing!
Greece was much easier as most of the time mentioned here. Always friendly people, the handling was helpful and thanks to AOPA Greece for the given service the pricing was in an absolute acceptable range. Finally we expected some hassles and found none.
I am not surprised. Those who do even just the most basic planning (and you do it all properly anyway) report no problems too.
And the always friendly locals make it even better
So today we finished our vacation to Greece. Early in the morning we departed at Szeged LHUD to avoid the worst weather flying IR in Hungary at Altitude 4000 ft and then passing Austria at FL/ALT 6000 ft. My planing was fine and so we didn’t needed too much TKS and could avoid icing. Climbing on top was today no option without a turbo.
All in all we have done around 2250 nm and enjoyed a very nice trip. And to name it: Greece was much easier as most of the time mentioned here. Always friendly people, the handling was helpful and thanks to AOPA Greece for the given service the pricing was in an absolute acceptable range. Finally we expected some hassles and found none.