So I have these airplane tickets from Burbank to Orlando, leaving early morning Thursday May 19 and returning Monday May 23. I need one of the tickets to leave after 1PM and to leave from LAX, but keep the return flight to Burbank on the 23rd.
If I change the first leg of the round-trip ticket with Delta, the carrier, it will cost me about $380 (the $50 change penalty and difference between the old fare and the new one). But if I cancel the first leg of the round-trip ticket and convert the return leg into a one-way ticket, it will EARN me $60 (even after the $50 change penalty). Then, a one-way ticket from LAX to Orlando coming after 1PM will cost me $170, for a net cost of $110.
$380 to change the outbound leg versus $110 to convert it into two one-way tickets USING THE SAME EXACT OUTBOUND AND RETURN FLIGHT. And this is the industry the government is called on to bail out every so often?! Needless to say, I did the two one-way tickets.
Nevermind that I was supposed to have moved the tickets not just after 1PM, but to the 20th instead of the 19th. So I guess we can ALL be stupid at times... my point still remains. :-P
Posted by pcg at May 9, 2005 5:33 PMbe prepared for extra security checks since one way tickets make you uber scary to the tsa...
Posted by: chris on May 9, 2005 6:03 PMIt's ridiculously easy to transport rifles via the airlines. They didn't even check to see if it was loaded. Take THAT, tsa.
Posted by: adam on May 9, 2005 10:26 PMbut they did pat down my 3month old daugther, and they even wanted to check her diaper. which we declined to let them do. talk about a loaded weapon...
Posted by: chris on May 11, 2005 3:54 PM