| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 460.1 | | NAC::TRAMP::GRADY | Subvert the dominant pair of dimes | Thu Jun 01 1995 23:15 | 7 |
| Cheap Seats is terrific! (Thanks again, JC!)
I just booked a round trip to New Orlean (yeah, again. I know) with
them. The best Thomas Cook could do was over $400 - Cheap Seats was
$286. Such a deal...
tim
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| 460.2 | | TRLIAN::DUGGAN | BornInTheDesert,RaisedInTheLionsDen | Fri Jun 02 1995 07:44 | 17 |
| I use the online Official Airlines Guide, usually accessed through
CompuServe
!Go OAG
I have been using the OAG in printed or electronic form since about
three days after the Wright Bros. invented flying...
Usually my travel agent can match the fares I find but once or twice I
come up with fares even she can't find! (I always use Going Places
Travel in Albuquerque... have since about FOUR days after the Wright
Bros. did their thing)
...michael t. "Next trip is to Siberia"Head
(really... we are takinmg the month of July off to paddle around Lake
Baikal for the AAAS)
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| 460.3 | | STAR::HUGHES | Captain Slog | Fri Jun 02 1995 11:30 | 13 |
| >I have been using the OAG in printed or electronic form since about
>three days after the Wright Bros. invented flying...
Wasn't that the day their luggage arrived?
>Travel in Albuquerque... have since about FOUR days after the Wright
>Bros. did their thing)
Ah, the anniversary of the invention of the Baggage Retrieval System
(or it would have been, if a critical part hadn't been rerouted to
Madrid).
gary
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| 460.4 | | DELNI::DSMITH | We've got mountains to climb | Fri Jun 02 1995 14:37 | 8 |
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If traveling out west, cheep seats is the God. If Digital hired
them to consult, we'd save millions yearly. What would have cost
$500 through T. Cooke, cost me $350 thru cheap seats.
Just called "Myrtle Beach Jet Express" for a 1-way back from South
Carolina in 2 weeks and it was a modest $119. For a one way fare,
thats not bad.
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| 460.5 | fwiw | WILLEE::OSTIGUY | | Fri Jun 02 1995 14:55 | 5 |
| I've always had good luck getting good rates from Shrewsbury Travel...
I did a LOT of comparitive shopping for our Lake Tahoe trip coming up
in August, and Shrewsbury Travel had the best rate (at the time) so I
booked it... $330 per round-trip ticket to Reno with 1 stop in Denver,
reasonable, rate and good selection of flight times too...
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| 460.6 | | ZENDIA::FERGUSON | Split open and Melt! | Wed Jun 14 1995 13:54 | 1 |
| Cheapseats rules!
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| 460.7 | Get to know your travel agent | TRLIAN::DUGGAN | BornInTheDesert,RaisedInTheLionsDen | Fri Jun 23 1995 14:26 | 10 |
| Fares change hour-by-hour, all the time.
I booked a flight from MHT --> ABQ --> MHT, the fare was $549.00. The
same flight two months ago was $302. Gulp, says I. Told my travel agent
to book it and send me the tickets.
Got the ticket yesterday. The fare was $397 -- because the T.A. waited
four hours (on the same day!) to buy the tix!
...michael t. "happy-flyer"Head
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| 460.8 | | DELNI::DSMITH | We've got mountains to climb | Mon Jun 26 1995 10:20 | 5 |
|
Nations Air was pretty good from South Carolina. They
have shuttles to Philli and elsewhere for $50
Bargain basement airline, but decent 737's with old motors.
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| 460.9 | | AWATS::WESTERVELT | | Mon Aug 14 1995 13:33 | 5 |
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I'm a cheapseats convert. 1 phone call, 1 price quoted,
the ticket was in my mailbox the next business day. 371 rt
Boston to SF
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| 460.10 | | ZENDIA::FERGUSON | Dry your eyes on the wind | Tue Aug 15 1995 11:24 | 2 |
| They RULE!
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| 460.11 | the things ya learn bein' bi-coastal | SUBPAC::MAGGARD | Mail Ordered Husband | Tue Aug 15 1995 12:52 | 23 |
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I have fairly good luck with Cheapseats. Only downside is that since they buy
their tix in bulk, you can't use discounts like FF coupons, etc. which I get
from time to time.
My next trip BOS<->LAX will be only $340 on American, NON-STOP (with a $75 FF
discount coupon). American is the only non-stop BOS<->LAX that I know of.
Cheapseats only had $369 with a change of planes each way and non-ideal flight
times on a 'lower-quality' airline. No thanks. I got the American tix by
calling their 800 #.
Non-stop is key for getting ~5 hrs of sleep on the red-eye return, and
American drops the price $20 for the red-eye flight. With a stop, I'm a total
veg on Monday, just like yesterday %-|
And the two times I've flown American on the return non-stop, it's been on a
DC-10 or L-1011 and I've gotten an entire row of 5-seats all to myself!
SCORE!
...or should I say SNORE! :-)
- jeff_I_maybe_totally_wrong_but_I'm_a_travellin'_foOOOoooOOoooOOoooOOOoolll..
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| 460.12 | | AWATS::WESTERVELT | | Tue Aug 15 1995 13:19 | 5 |
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I guess it pays to shop around. I did notice American advertising
round trips to LA in today's Globe, for $299!
Tom
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| 460.13 | | SUBPAC::MAGGARD | Mail Ordered Husband | Tue Aug 15 1995 16:31 | 3 |
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<runs off to find a Globe>
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| 460.14 | or would you like that payment in tapes? :-) | SUBPAC::MAGGARD | Mail Ordered Husband | Tue Aug 15 1995 16:40 | 11 |
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$305 for the trip RT non-stop to LAX... YAHOO!
Tom, you just saved me $35! I owe ya a beer (standard Grateful 10%
commission :-)
Scr*w Cheapseats... the best deals are found here in GRATEFUL!!!!
- jeff
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| 460.15 | | AWATS::WESTERVELT | | Tue Aug 15 1995 17:52 | 5 |
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Hey that's great jeff!
you know I want tapes ;-) 8-)
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