'Re: [Quanta] I love airfareplanet.com'

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       quanta
Subject:    Re: [Quanta] I love airfareplanet.com
From:       Greg Guldenschuh <Greg () gguldens ! org>
Date:       2005-08-25 12:57:29
Message-ID: 430DC039.4050904 () gguldens ! org
[Download RAW message or body]

[Attachment #2 (multipart/alternative)]

Eric,
  With a fare that low, you are probably on Delta.  Down here in the 
south we have a saying:  When you die, no matter if you are going to 
heaven or hell, you will have to change planes in Atlanta.  So since 
this is probably the case, let me know how long your Atlanta layover 
will be and I will arrange to have a bag dinner delivered to you in the 
airport.

Greg Guldenschuh

Greg Guldenschuh
The ID Guy
greg@gguldens.org
http://www.gguldens.org/resume
H: 678.344.1513
NIC Handle: GG10688
Visit IDSystems of Grayson's Online Catalog
http://www.idsystemsofgrayson.com/shoppingcart/

Eric Laffoon wrote:

>On Wednesday 24 August 2005 4:17 pm, Eric Laffoon wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all,
>>just in case anyone is interested those tickets I found at a reasonable
>>price on orbitz.com... Last night at midnight it said I had to call the
>>airlines...
>>    
>>
>
>Just in case people are actually entertained by my insanity... I got the idea 
>that maybe I could show up late and still get in most of the conference and I 
>figured leaving on a Monday would be unpopular enough, as well as trying for 
>departure from Seattle. It's 3.5 hours drive to SEA-TAC airport for me so 
>that's 7 hours round trip if I'm driven. I figured I could get a cheap flight 
>or catch a bus or train. I found tickets I could afford and began 
>investigating puddle jumper fares. Apparently turboprops are golden because 
>they were charging over $200 for a hop. While looking at this and eating 
>dinner airfares went up $300. 
>
>Once again I could go and then I couldn't, in a matter of hours. I began to 
>search furiously, even going to a site with "zoo" in the name and finally 
>landing on airfareplanet.com where fares were half what they were anywhere 
>else. It seemed desperately wrong, but I clicked low fare after low fare 
>waiting for it to come back and tell me there was no availability. After a 
>dozen or so times I thought I had done them all and data came up... It set a 
>reservation leaving from Portland at over $400 less than the closest fare and 
>below the amount I had been sponsored for travel. Of course I'm confident 
>I'll get a phone call or email tomorrow that there is some problem with my 
>tickets. ;-)
>
>Okay, dinner is on again... for now. Let's hope I don't have to transfer to 
>camelback or something before this is over. ;-)
>  
>

[Attachment #5 (text/html)]

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
  <title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Eric,<br>
&nbsp; With a fare that low, you are probably on Delta.&nbsp; Down here in the
south we have a saying:&nbsp; When you die, no matter if you are going to
heaven or hell, you will have to change planes in Atlanta.&nbsp; So since
this is probably the case, let me know how long your Atlanta layover
will be and I will arrange to have a bag dinner delivered to you in the
airport.<br>
<br>
Greg Guldenschuh<br>
</font>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Greg Guldenschuh
The ID Guy
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" \
href="mailto:greg@gguldens.org">greg@gguldens.org</a> <a \
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" \
                href="http://www.gguldens.org/resume">http://www.gguldens.org/resume</a>

H: 678.344.1513
NIC Handle: GG10688
Visit IDSystems of Grayson's Online Catalog
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" \
href="http://www.idsystemsofgrayson.com/shoppingcart/">http://www.idsystemsofgrayson.com/shoppingcart/</a></pre>
 <br>
<br>
Eric Laffoon wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid200508242143.01385.sequitur@kde.org" type="cite">
  <pre wrap="">On Wednesday 24 August 2005 4:17 pm, Eric Laffoon wrote:
  </pre>
  <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre wrap="">Hi all,
just in case anyone is interested those tickets I found at a reasonable
price on orbitz.com... Last night at midnight it said I had to call the
airlines...
    </pre>
  </blockquote>
  <pre wrap=""><!---->
Just in case people are actually entertained by my insanity... I got the idea 
that maybe I could show up late and still get in most of the conference and I 
figured leaving on a Monday would be unpopular enough, as well as trying for 
departure from Seattle. It's 3.5 hours drive to SEA-TAC airport for me so 
that's 7 hours round trip if I'm driven. I figured I could get a cheap flight 
or catch a bus or train. I found tickets I could afford and began 
investigating puddle jumper fares. Apparently turboprops are golden because 
they were charging over $200 for a hop. While looking at this and eating 
dinner airfares went up $300. 

Once again I could go and then I couldn't, in a matter of hours. I began to 
search furiously, even going to a site with "zoo" in the name and finally 
landing on airfareplanet.com where fares were half what they were anywhere 
else. It seemed desperately wrong, but I clicked low fare after low fare 
waiting for it to come back and tell me there was no availability. After a 
dozen or so times I thought I had done them all and data came up... It set a 
reservation leaving from Portland at over $400 less than the closest fare and 
below the amount I had been sponsored for travel. Of course I'm confident 
I'll get a phone call or email tomorrow that there is some problem with my 
tickets. ;-)

Okay, dinner is on again... for now. Let's hope I don't have to transfer to 
camelback or something before this is over. ;-)
  </pre>
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

_______________________________________________
Quanta mailing list
Quanta@mail.kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/quanta

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 