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Old 16th Mar 2015, 11:37
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Cheekiest Fbo charge

After reading some of the obscene charges for ice cubes

What is the most ridiculous charge you've ever had.



20 euros for cooling. Italy

When questioning it, it was for the storage of our crew food from the previous night which we had asked to be put in the fridge. (Just in the Fbo nothing special)
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€70 for a kettle full of boiling water at Salerno.
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74 euros for newspapers at Nice (I wasn't there - second hand info)
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$5 per page to print flight plan paperwork (UAE).... When I saw that in the quote, I lodged a complaint. Never got a reply so we used another agent.
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My winner: 145 € for crew food (no caviar!) at LIPE.
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350 USD at Tel Aviv to top up one front tyre with Nitrogen!
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€26,17 for 3 traffic cones in Albecete
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Av- Jet Quebec City, $230 for Cessna 421 turnaround over 15 minutes, no answer on Unicom, no marshalers and it took 25 minutes to find fuel truck driver so of course we were over the 15 minute mark for ramp fees! crew room has only one reclineing chair, no chance to sleep or rest, flight planing computers U/S most of the time, no crew cars, the only FBO on the field of course.

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$1100 for 'handling' at Lubumbashi for a PA34. This didn't include fuel, or leaving the aircraft. Just a medevac pickup.

$100 was for "weather", which consisted of a crap black and white satellite image of Southern Africa that I wasn't allowed to hold, just be shown, and had a number of previous registrations crossed out across the top. All services mandatory and non-negotiable.
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€120 for 3 sandwiches at Pisa. Tastefully arranged on a plastic tray though, so it was worth it…
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£154 for two crew sandwiches with salad and a pint of milk - Biggin Hill.
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Jackdaw Who on earth was the caterer who supplied those? Arranged direct with them or via the handling company?

I am 15 mins away from Biggin Hill, if you are coming again, I will do them for a dam sight cheaper than that, I can assure you…!
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€120 for 3 sandwiches at Pisa. Tastefully arranged on a plastic tray though, so it was worth it…
Well, they do say presentation is everything!
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$7300 for 3 days of parking at DXB
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75GBP for the anti-bird cannon at Northolt
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$150 for a local phone call to order catering at Landmark MIA. (Catering an additional rip off of course).
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Quoted Eu500 for some nosh in EHAM. Went and had a Chinese instead.
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U$D 480 for parking a C182 in SPRU
U$D 160 for the marshall in SAME, fun thing is they have like 12 parking spots, 6 of them require mandatory marshalling, and the other 6 don't, but mandatory bus transport is required to/from Aircraft (400ft walk). If they catch you off guard they'll charge you for both. (That's why you should always be "Familiarizado con el aeropuerto")

And almost every bill in SPIM, average of U$D2500-3000 (Fuel excl) for "Processing" Intl. Passengers, Fpl Filling and parking for 48 to 72 Hrs.
Peruvians excel in the effort to make it impossible to avoid as they are dead slow for everything.
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