🚀 go-pugleaf

OK, I said it once, I'll say it again:

On 10/7 I wrote:

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Oh, please. For $300, you can post to rec.travel.marketplace and get a
roundtrip on a major airline, that operates more that one flight/day
to where you want to go, doesn't connect through Kalamazoo with a
three hour layover, and very little chance of being overbooked. That
is, assuming that you want to be involved in such a semi-legal deal,
given that there are plently of places to find ~$300ish RTs on the
net, and New York/Boston/Washington are perennially $250 or so from
the consolidators.

No doubt he got these by taking 10 $80 RTs to LA = a rapid reward, and
he brought along a free friend on some of those. Fine, but building up
the 25,000K necessary to get an award on a real airline costs more
than $800, and $300 back is pretty steep even if you don't mind
screwing over an airline that offers amazing fairs (ever see a $80 RT
between DTW and NYC, even though they're as close as LAX and SFO?).

Not saying that you can't save yourself a lot of money over some
ridiculous $1200 no advance purchace fair to Orlando, or in some other
bizarre situation, but I am saying that for the same $300 you could
find someone willing to do the same for you on an airline that
operates to Orlando (or whatever your destination is) regularly.

$150 for both would be more like it.

-Ken

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And, since he still hasn't sold it, one has to remark that he's still
posting in all these groups, and not in rec.travel.marketplace... 

-Ken



In article <3462e578.3410739@news.berkeley.edu>,  <huneypot@usa.net> wrote:
>
>I have two Southwest Airlines one way tickets good for travel ANYWHERE
>Southwest flies.  
>
>If you don't know where they fly, check out their web site at
>http://www.iflyswa.com and find out.  They go all the way to
>Providence, RI, Florida, Michigan, etc.  Everywhere basically.
>
>The tickets are good anytime until 10/25/1998, except for the two days
>around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
>
>The price I am selling these tickets for is $150 each.
>Non-negotiable.  Do NOT buy these if you are going to LA or Portland.
>It's not worth it.  Only buy them if you're going to go cross country!
>
>The tickets are available immediately, to the first buyer.  Perfect
>for the last minute Thanksgiving trip (leave on Tuesday, return
>Saturday or Monday).
>
>Thanks.
>
>In Berkeley, CA.