He $1,142 ke kumukūʻai mokulele mokulele mai New York a i Paris i ka hopena pule mua o Mei. He mokulele ʻo Continental Airlines Inc. e hele i ka hui o nā mea kuleana makahiki a Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ma Omaha, Nebraska, i ka hopena pule hoʻokahi: $1,433.
Ke hoʻolālā nei nā mea hoʻopukapuka e hele i ka hanana a ka luna o Berkshire, ʻo Warren Buffett, i kapa ʻia ʻo "Woodstock for capitalists," ua hoʻonui nā mea lawe pū me Continental a me Delta Air Lines Inc. Ke noi nei lākou i ʻehā mau manawa i ka helu maʻamau no nā tiketi huakaʻi hele, ʻo ia hoʻi e uku hou aku ka poʻe New York e kipa aku iā Omaha no ka hālāwai Mei 1 ma mua o Ladana, Roma a me Barcelona.
Ua hoʻohui ʻo Continental i hoʻokahi mokulele mai New York ma ka lā 29 ʻApelila a ʻekolu i ka lā 30 ʻApelila, wahi a Mary Clark, kahi ʻōlelo no ka mokulele. ʻO nā mea kūʻai aku i kūʻai i nā tiketi ma mua i uku liʻiliʻi no ko lākou mau noho, wahi āna. I kēia manawa, ke koi nei ka hui ʻo Houston i ka uku no nā wahi i koe.
"Ua ʻike ʻia he koi nui," wahi a Clark. "No ka mea, ua kūʻai mua ʻia ka nui o ia mau kumukūʻai a he kakaikahi nā noho i koe, ʻo nā noho i koe ma nā uku kiʻekiʻe."
I ka makahiki i hala aku nei, ʻoiai ʻo ka hoʻoweliweli ʻana o ka maʻi puaʻa i mālama i kekahi mau mea kuleana, ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia kahi moʻolelo 35,000 poʻe i kahe i ka Eppley Airfield o Omaha a hoʻopiha i nā hōkele ma ke kūlanakauhale o 439,000. ʻEkolu mau lā o nā hanana i kēia makahiki e hoʻomaka me ka hoʻokipa ʻana ma ka hale kūʻai mea kūʻai ʻo Borsheims ʻo Berkshire i ka lā 30 ʻApelila a hoʻopau ʻia me nā nalu o ka poʻe ʻaina e ʻai ana i nā steaks ma Gorat's a me Piccolo Pete's, ʻelua hale ʻai kahi i hoʻohiki ai ʻo Buffett e kū i ka lā 2 Mei.
Mona Lisa, Notre Dame
Hiki i ka poʻe kipa i Paris i kēlā hopena pule ke nānā i ka lā Mei mai Place de la Bastille, e ʻike iā Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa ma ka Musee du Louvre a i ʻole e holo waʻa ma ka Seine ma mua o ka hale pule ʻo Notre Dame. ʻO nā kumulāʻau lio-chestnut e pili ana i ka Champs Elysees e pua maʻamau i ka mahina o Mei, aʻo nā mea hoʻokani mele kahiko e hoʻokani i nā ʻaha mele ma ka Jardin du Luxembourg.
ʻO nā mea hoʻopukapuka kālā Berkshire e koho iā Nebraska e hoʻopiha i ke kahua Qwest Center e hoʻolohe iā Buffett, ka mea i kapa ʻia ʻo Oracle o Omaha, ʻoiai ʻo ia e lawe i nā nīnau mai ka lehulehu e pili ana i ka hoʻopukapuka kālā, ka politika a me ka hoʻokele waiwai no nā hola ʻeono. Hiki i nā hana extracurricular ke komo i nā kipa i kahi kahua hānau o Pelekikena Gerald Ford, ka Freedom Park Navy Museum, a me ka wao nahele nui loa o ka honua, e like me ka Convention & Visitors Bureau o ke kūlanakauhale.
'A'ohe mea ho'ohālike'
"Paris a me Lākana, ʻoluʻolu loa kēlā mau kūlanakauhale," wahi a Mohnish Pabrai, ka mea nāna i hoʻokumu iā Irvine, Kaleponi ʻo Pabrai Investment Funds, ka mea i hele i kēlā me kēia hālāwai makahiki mai 1998. "ʻO Omaha kahi o nā hana āpau. No ke aha ʻoe e makemake ai e hele i Paris i ka lā 1 o Mei? wahi āna. "ʻAʻohe mea e hoʻohālikelike iā Omaha."
ʻO ka poʻe hoʻolale kālā e manaʻo nei e lele pau ʻole mai New York e hele i nā hanana a pau a Buffett i hoʻonohonoho ai, pono lākou e kūʻai i tiketi mai Continental e haʻalele i New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport i ka lā 30 ʻApelila a hoʻi mai i ka lā 3 Mei. ʻO ka uku hoʻokele waiwai he $1,433, me nā ʻauhau. a me nā uku, e like me ka punaewele o Continental i nehinei.
ʻElua pule ma hope mai, ʻo ka huakaʻi kaʻapuni like i Omaha he $309 ma ke kaʻi, e like me ka pūnaewele. Kūʻai ʻia nā huakaʻi holo ʻole mai New York's LaGuardia ma Delta ma ʻApelila 30. ʻO ke koena o nā noho kaʻa ma ka mokulele ʻo ʻApelila 29 nonstop Delta mai LaGuardia he $1,188, e like me ka pūnaewele pūnaewele o ka mokulele.
"ʻO kēlā me kēia hanana e huki i nā koi hou mai kā mākou mea kūʻai aku he maikaʻi ia no ka ʻoihana," wahi a Kent Landers, kahi ʻōlelo no Delta. "I ka wā e hiki ai, e hoʻohui mākou i nā noho e hōʻoia e hiki iā mākou ke hoʻokipa i nā mea kūʻai aku e koho e lele Delta i hiki."
Piʻi i ke Alapiʻi
ʻAʻole i hoʻohui ʻo Delta i nā mokulele no ka hālāwai makahiki no ka mea hiki i nā poʻe holo kaʻa ke hoʻopaʻa i nā huakaʻi e loaʻa ai nā hoʻomaha ma nā kūlanakauhale ʻē aʻe, wahi a Landers. Hāʻawi ka mokulele i ka lele mai LaGuardia a i Omaha i ka lā 30 ʻApelila me kahi kū hoʻokahi i kēlā me kēia ala no $443. ʻO ka lele hoʻihoʻi ʻana he 30 mau minuke ma kahi kahua mokulele ʻo Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Rick Seaney, ka luna nui o Dallas-based Farecompare.com, e hoʻokiʻekiʻe nā ʻōnaehana tiketi mokulele i nā kumukūʻai ma muli o ka pono o nā noho a hiki i nā limahana ke nānā i ka koi a hoʻonui hou i nā kumukūʻai. Inā hoʻohui ka hui i nā huakaʻi, e hoʻonui i nā kumukūʻai i ka wā e hoʻohaʻahaʻa ana i ke kumukūʻai o nā tiketi, wahi āna.
"He mea maʻalahi paha iā lākou ke uku ʻana i $1,200 a i ʻole $1,500 no kēlā huakaʻi kaʻapuni ma mua o ka lawe ʻana mai i kahi mokulele ʻē aʻe a hoʻopaʻa i $600, no ka mea, hoʻopau lākou i ka nui o ke kālā," wahi a Seaney. Ke ʻike ka lolouila e kūʻai aku ana nā noho, "hoʻokiʻekiʻe ke kumukūʻai i ke kiʻekiʻe kiʻekiʻe o kahi alapiʻi kumukūʻai," wahi āna.
Lādana, Roma
ʻO ka lele kūʻai kūʻai kūʻai kūʻai kūʻai kūʻokoʻa loa mai New York a i Paris ma nā lā like he lele Newark-to-Roissy-Charles De Gaulle no $1,142 ma ka mokulele Air France-KLM Group. ʻO nā tiketi i ke kahua mokulele ʻo Heathrow ma Lākana he $661 ma Delta. E lele kaʻapuni ana ka American Airlines o AMR Corp. mai JFK a i Barcelona no $757, a he $790 ke kumukūʻai ma waena o JFK a me Roma Fiumicino airport ma Delta.
I ka makahiki i hala aku nei, ua haʻalele nā mea kuleana ʻo Berkshire i kēlā mau kūlanakauhale a lele i Omaha mai kēlā ʻaoʻao o ʻAmelika a ma kahi o 40 mau ʻāina ʻē. ʻO ka lele ʻana ʻo Delta mai Memphis nonstop a hiki i Omaha he $618 ma ka hopena pule o ka hālāwai, 26 pakeneka ʻoi aku ma mua o ʻelua pule ma hope, a ʻo kahi huakaʻi Midwest Air Group Inc. mai Wakinekona he $410, he 22 pakeneka hoʻonui.
"Inā ʻoe e noho i ka mokulele, ma nā ʻaoʻao ʻelua o ʻoe e loaʻa nā Berkshire-holics ma hope ou," wahi a Pabrai, kahi mea kuleana ʻo Berkshire. Ua hele ka poʻe kaʻa i ka hālāwai "ua wehe ʻia kā lākou Berkshire Hathaway hōʻike makahiki me he mea lā e ʻimi nei lākou i kahi hoʻokolokolo."
'Limited Resources'
Ua kūkulu ʻo Buffett, 79, iā Berkshire i ʻoihana he $200 biliona ma mua o ʻehā mau makahiki ma o ka hoʻololi ʻana i kahi mea hana hemahema o nā lole lole kāne kāne i ʻoihana me nā ʻoihana mai ka ice cream a me nā lole komo a hiki i nā mea kanu mana a me nā kaʻa kaʻa. Ua kūʻai ʻia nā ʻāpana ma kahi o $15 i kona wā i hoʻokele ai i ka makahiki 1965; ua pani ka papa A i nehinei ma ka $122,459. ʻAʻole i pane ʻo Buffett i nā noi no ka manaʻo e pili ana i nā kumukūʻai ea i hoʻouna ʻia e ka leka uila i kahi kōkua.
"ʻO Warren Buffett kahi kumu waiwai," wahi a Guy Spier, he poʻo ma Aquamarine Funds LLC i hele i ka hālāwai makahiki no kahi o 15 mau makahiki. "I kēlā me kēia makahiki e hala ana, piʻi aʻe kāna kumu waiwai."
ʻO Spier, ka mea e lele i Omaha mai Zurich, ʻōlelo ʻo ia e hilinaʻi maʻamau i ka lilo ʻana i lālā o ka papahana kūpaʻa mea kūʻai aku a Hilton Hotels Corp. He liʻiliʻi ka waiwai o ka lālā i ka hopena pule Berkshire, ʻoiai ʻo ia e mālama ʻia ana ka hālāwai ma ke kahua ma ke alanui mai ka hōkele. "Ke hoʻāʻo nei au e huki i koʻu kūlana elite - ʻaʻole lawa ia," wahi a Spier, 44. "Ua hoʻopaʻa ʻia ka hale holoʻokoʻa."
Pau i ke kūʻai ʻia
"Ma ka hopena o ka hālāwai e lilo mākou i 100 pakeneka kūʻai ʻia no ka makahiki e hiki mai ana," wahi a Robert Watson, ka luna nui o Hilton Omaha. "He mea kupanaha loa ka hopena no Omaha," wahi āna. "He hana nui ia no nā ʻoihana a puni. He 30 a 40 pakeneka ka piʻi ʻana no nā ʻoihana hoʻokipa a puni ke kaiāulu a puni.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Watson e hoʻonui pinepine ʻia nā kumukūʻai i ka wā o nā hui nui a hōʻole i ka haʻi ʻana i ka nui o ka hōkele e uku ʻia i ka wā o ka hālāwai Berkshire.
ʻO Marriott Omaha, nona ka Marriott International Inc., ke uku nei i $269 i ka pō i ka wā o ka hālāwai, he 23 pakeneka ʻoi aʻe ma mua o kāna mau kumukūʻai maʻamau, wahi a Paul Tunakan, ka luna hoʻokele o ke kūʻai aku a me ke kālepa.
"ʻO ka pō Pōʻalima no mākou he hale hehena," wahi a Tunakan. "Ua piha wale i kanaka."
"ʻO ka hōkele holoʻokoʻa ʻo wai - ʻo kēia mau mea hoʻokele kālā pā a me nā mea hoʻopukapuka kaulana, nā mea kākau," wahi a Pabrai, 45, e noho ana ma ka Marriott. “E noho wale ma ka lobby no ʻelua mau hola. Me he mea lā ma ka Oscars. "
