[Mg-t] Fwd: Shipping a car from England to California - Check the expert

[PopeyMike at aol.com]

In a message dated  11/28/2010 7:35:04 P.M. Central Standard Time, 
arundell at ghs.com.au writes:

You can  probably forget that idea these days.  Since 9/11 the airlines   
have priced the freighting of cars by air out of existence.  It  used  
to be quite common down here to ship cars between Aus & NZ  by air  
(have done it myself).  The situation now is very  different.  Check it  
out by all means but I suspect it will be  a dead end.

Murray Arundell

On 29/11/2010, at 11:25 AM, Charles  Hill wrote:

> Lawrence has an idea worth investigating.   Several years ago, I  
> shipped my motorcycle from Athens, Greece  to San Antonio, TX via  
> air.  It was considerably cheaper  than what I was quoted for sea  
> shipping.  And it was  almost door-to-door.  I was able to scrounge  
> some gas and  ride it home from the airport!  My situation was a  
> little  different though as customs was not an issue as it was  
> personal  effects of a returning US serviceman.  All I needed to do  
>  was show a copy of my PCS orders.
>
> Charles  Hill
>
>  On 11/28/2010 7:08 PM, Lawrence Karpman  wrote:
>> I shipped a TD from Anchorage AK to France via Air France  cargo in  
>> 1990, and it was cheaper than any of the surface  costs any company  
>> quoted me. And, the buyer had the car 2  days after I dropped it off  
>> at Air France cargo. Might be  worth checking air cargo rates.
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