gencon stuffs

[jaina]

Gragh. Should not have waited so long to get GC airfares. Called up United reservations to use my frequent flyer miles, and we *can* get flights on the dates we want, they're just lousy itineraries at lousy times. Sunday is particularly bad, because we'd leave Indy at 9 am (therefore no Sunday GenCon), fly through *Dulles,* and then get into San Diego at 3 pm that afternoon. The tickets are on hold, so we can still make changes. Am wondering if it would be better to just stay Sunday night (an extra ~$80 for the both of us, assuming we are still in a room w/ 4 people) and fly out on Monday. Of course I didn't ask the United guy what the Monday flights were like.

Argh. Argh argh argh. >:(

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[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

No, no, nothing like that. It costs 25,000 miles for a free ticket (you accumulate miles by flying, having their credit card, using their rental car/hotel/restaurant/whatever partners). On most airlines, they have a few seats on every flight set aside for frequent-flyer tickets. If a seat is available, then you can get a ticket on that flight for free. So the problem here is that most of the flights already have their full complement of frequent flyers, so we're stuck with the assy flights. There *may* be more open seats on Monday, but I didn't ask the reservations guy so I don't know.

This is why we're going to start flying Southwest. Once you earn a free ticket through their program, you can use it on any flight where there are seats available.