another thing i don't get
so this is all brought on by the fact that i have a plane ticket that i am trying to cancel/change w/o getting screwed, and i would accept the blame except i don't think it's my fault, i think it's the fault of my college friends, who suck. tho maybe it's my fault for being friends with them.
so we have a firm retreat in boston two weekends later and the firm is getting the tickets, but i was thinking that maybe since i can't come up with anything else to do with this ticket, i would at least look at that possibility. unfortunately, things are hindered by the fact that i am restricted to flying on one airline. which seems to suck.
but none of that is the point of this post. so when the firm was asking us which airport we would rather fly out of, they gave us the options of IAD and BWI, but we can't use DCA b/c the costs are still prohibitive. but using the same dates and times, i can get a round trip BWI-BOS for $118 and a round trip DCA-BOS for $130. and i'm going to guess that $12 is not actually prohibitive for the firm. i'm actually going to guess that the $385 ticket to which i would be restricted if trying to fly on the one airline forwhich my other ticket is valid is not actually prohibitive to a firm either. i would guess that even tho i am balking at that cost, that is probably what we will all be flying out of BWI or IAD for. so what i don't get is why this is the case if there are clearly better fares out there. i'm sure there is a perfectly good explanation for this, but this is the sort of thing that doesn't add up in laura-land, so please explain if you can. (lexi, since you're about the only person reading this and it doesn't make sense in lexi-land either, maybe you could ask aaron and just send me his answer.)
so we have a firm retreat in boston two weekends later and the firm is getting the tickets, but i was thinking that maybe since i can't come up with anything else to do with this ticket, i would at least look at that possibility. unfortunately, things are hindered by the fact that i am restricted to flying on one airline. which seems to suck.
but none of that is the point of this post. so when the firm was asking us which airport we would rather fly out of, they gave us the options of IAD and BWI, but we can't use DCA b/c the costs are still prohibitive. but using the same dates and times, i can get a round trip BWI-BOS for $118 and a round trip DCA-BOS for $130. and i'm going to guess that $12 is not actually prohibitive for the firm. i'm actually going to guess that the $385 ticket to which i would be restricted if trying to fly on the one airline forwhich my other ticket is valid is not actually prohibitive to a firm either. i would guess that even tho i am balking at that cost, that is probably what we will all be flying out of BWI or IAD for. so what i don't get is why this is the case if there are clearly better fares out there. i'm sure there is a perfectly good explanation for this, but this is the sort of thing that doesn't add up in laura-land, so please explain if you can. (lexi, since you're about the only person reading this and it doesn't make sense in lexi-land either, maybe you could ask aaron and just send me his answer.)
posted by laura at 12:46 AM
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Nothing about airline ticketing is supposed to make sense. I'll ask Aaron when he gets home from work today, but I doubt he'll know what's going on either.
My older brother would be the perfect person to ask, but I will probably mangle whatever ridiculously technical and long answer he gives me. Maybe I'll just direct him to your blog and he can write all of the equations down.
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