{"id":104,"date":"2003-11-05T23:09:25","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T23:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20031105230925"},"modified":"2003-11-06T04:20:05","modified_gmt":"2003-11-06T04:20:05","slug":"05112003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/05112003\/","title":{"rendered":"Full frills websites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are planning to be in Venice for Christmas this year, and so we are considering whether we can pop over to the UK for New Year.  Looking for a price between Venice and the UK I tried a variety of different airlines, and I&#8217;m far more impressed with the &#8220;No frills&#8221; websites than the normal carriers.<\/p>\n<p>Take for example <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyjet.com\/\">EasyJet<\/a> versus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishairways.com\/\">BA<\/a>.  With EasyJet you select your language first, then you can select a starting airport, and then a corresponding destination airport.  With BA you select your country of residence which in turn dictates both the language and available starting airports.<\/p>\n<p>I live in Canada, can read English, and want to fly from Venice to the UK and back.  EasyJet let&#8217;s me do this, but BA only let&#8217;s me choose between Montreal, Toronto or Vancouver.  Unless I learn to read Italian and pretend to live in Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are planning to be in Venice for Christmas this year, and so we are considering whether we can pop over to the UK for New Year. Looking for a price between Venice and the UK I tried a variety of different airlines, and I&#8217;m far more impressed with the &#8220;No frills&#8221; websites than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}