Another storm hitting Denver right now.
Folks, Southwest may not be running until Easter at this rate. Plan accordingly.
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Lmao, it’s all coming together for them. See they seem this coming and that’s why they halted 15k flights in less than a week. Bravo! I have someone i know driving from western ny back to Denver. Cause they flew here on southwest and couldn’t get back.
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Wait, AA is doing MCI-AUS nonstop? I need to know more about this route…
Let me know if you want me to book this for you. This is also 1st class. I’d recommend not booking thru google. Lol
In the theme of all of this WN dumpster fire, I need some unrelated cancellation help. I have a cancellation for an upcoming family trip w/ 2 toddlers (2 & 4 years old).
I booked award flights with Delta for a positioning flight to Japan in March.
The original booking was DFW-LAX 16:00-17:23 an overnight and then a 13:45 departure the next day to Tokyo.
Flying DL very infrequently, I did not realize I was about to be the subject of what appears to be a seasonal schedule change. The only direct flight from DFW on DL is now at 6:00. This would mean spending an extra night in a hotel before our flight out of DFW (we live a couple of hours’ drive to DFW) and still waking up at an ungodly hour to start our transpacific journey with toddlers.
Who amongst you is staying on the early direct flight and who is laying over in SLC at reasonable times?
A320 DFW-LAX
A220 DFW-SLC 737 SLC-LAX
- DFW-LAX 6:00- 7:30
- DFW-SLC 12:47-14:45; SLC-LAX 17:43-18:48
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7k from ORD to DCA is for sure price gouging. Secretary Pete should be handing out a 9-figure fine for that one.
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If toddlers weren’t involved, I would absolutely be on that 6AM Flight and then spend the day seeing a few sights in LA. Still an option, but could see the toddlers being rather grumpy in the afternoon; (no kids myself and just generalizing based off experiences at holidays when toddlers had to get up early).
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This is from traveling with my own 2.5 year old.
Be traveling as short amount of time as possible in the most direct route with least amount of time on they plane. Kids will be fine with any time you’re traveling but they are like ticking time bombs. They’re eventually going to blow up, but hopefully they do after you’re off the plane.
If it was me I wouldn’t even look at the option to change planes. Sure you’ll be getting up at the ass crack to drive but the kids will sleep in the car. When we head back to Michigan or Wisconsin from Tennessee we leave at 3am so our kid will sleep most of the way.
Godspeed.
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I’ve done both of these and I can confirm that they are both long as a motherfucker.
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As a third option, have you looked into rebooking on AA? It’s not a popular option around here but they do run DFW-LAX nonstop just about every hour or two.
I know you said you had booked award travel for this leg so I’m not sure if you have the AA miles or if cash fares are relatively inexpensive for your day.
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If you take that morning flight DFW-LAX, you’re gonna have about a 5 hour layover before going to NRT. T3 in LAX is in the process of being rebuilt, so I can imagine DL is operating at reduced capabilities and amenities. Getting your young kids up at 3:30 at a DFW airport hotel just to have a 3 hour flight to LA plus 5 hour layover plus 12 hour flight to Tokyo sounds like hell for your whole family. Take the connection via SLC and get a hotel at LAX. You can sleep in, not rush in the morning, and your youngsters will be able to adjust to a long transpac flight much better.
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Been a little shook by this since last night…do people really use google to shop flights? Is that a thing?
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I don’t fly anywhere near enough for status, so absolutely. It’s great.
As @BillyWalters stated, always incognito and always price check.
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I do it in incognito mode to see when the flights are running but always book thru Amex or direct with the airline.
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To shop flights? No. Always direct with airline.
To argue with you? Yes.
Happy New Year TC!
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To track prices on flights? Absolutely. The saved flights feature is extremely handy, and it’s the easiest site to comparison shop for flights.
All bookings are directly on the airlines’ sites though.
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really weird side note, but there was a time where there was a really cool story written about me behind a paywall, and for some reason I was too dumb to bookmark it, and the ONLY search engine that could locate it was alta vista. Article was from like 04…
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Same but with Chase
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I do all my initial research on Google flights if paying by cash. It’s also a great tool to use when researching free stop over flights when booking ua award travel.
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