h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Flying Business Class - A87806091
Author: Phoenician Trader - U176689

An interesting lacuna in the H2G2 corpus.

An excellent entry - I had been looking to point out something missing before I realised you'd included it in your first two sentences!

I'll give it a more detailed look later, but it looks good to me

I've heard that one of the main reasons for flying Business Class is that if you have to cancel the flight due to a change of plan, you get a full refund of the cost. I don't know whether this is true or not.

Alas it isn't true.

You can pay for the degree flexibility you need - from "no changes" to "fully flexible". The same options apply in economy too. If you are familiar with the UK Eurostar booking page, it works much the same way (airlines often have 4 or 5 "fare buckets" in each class).

Fine entry - well done!

If there's one thing I'd like to see it's an indication of how much a business class ticket might cost compared to an economy one (perhaps give a percentage mark-up range)

One typo:

"Is it is worth spending the money on the extra benefits?"

Icy

Fixed the typo.

The relative costs are covered in the first sentence and in the latter paragraph about how it can be cheaper than standard class on tourist routes. If you think it needs more, let me know.

Yes, I guess it just varies a lot - your first sentence should do.

Hi Ancient Brit. This is a very good entry, and I've no suggestions at all on its content - you seem to have covered every aspect of the subject.

You've used lower-case footnote instead of upper-case FOOTNOTE in the footnote tags. This means that none of the footnotes display at all in Pliny. Please change these tags to upper-case, so that those of us who use Pliny can see your footnotes.

Of course, the sub-editor will do this when this is picked, or I could just switch to Alabaster to read the footnotes. But since it needs to be done, you might as well do it now.

Thanks Gonomon. I have changed the tags.

Somebody (who is greater than I) may want to update the GuideML Clinic which says you can use either case but recommends lower case.

I thought I already updated the GuideML clinic to say you should use lowercase for HTML tags and uppercase for GuideML tags.

Yes I did. Of course if you read just the first sentence that refers only to HTML, you might not realise this.

Now, back to the footnotes. Having read them, my only suggestion is a minor tweak to the last one:

"It also happens on train routes too"

You should have the word "also" or the word "too" but not both of them.

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