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Home for Christmas

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Well not really my hometown, or my relatives for that matter. I just bought my tickets to go to Florida to see my family for Christmas. I was so excited to find nonstop tickets at decent travel times for $213. I am the self-proclaimed king of finding good airfare. But this is way cheaper than the usual jacked up rates around holidays. Let me tell you how excited I am to be flying my 10th airline and my 6th Boeing jet. Most people get on the plane and ignore it, but I love flying on different aircraft. After this I only have three Boeing jets left before I have flown all of their commercial production models. I have never flown Airtran before so I'm hoping it's a good airline. Has anyone ever flown them? Also on the subject when did Jetblue become so freaking expensive? They used to be the first place I looked because they were so cheap. Now they same flight dates would cost me over $500! I have no loyalty to airlines whatsoever, those frequent flyer programs are so lame anyway. Everything is restricted and sometimes you have to fly standby just to redeem your miles. I really hope Virgin US comes to Buffalo so we can have some nice price wars between them Southwest and Jetblue.
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  1. janelle ·

    Most of my airline and airplane model research has to do with researching safety records. I know the track record for various airlines and models of airplanes. I'm so terrified of being in a plane crash. I start dreading the flights to whatever the destination is weeks before the flight. Once I get to my destination, I usually feel okay on the flight back home. Although there have been times where I've seriously had to repress the urge to yell out "the plane is going down and we're all going to die" in mid-flight - however irrational it might be at the moment. I'd probably get kicked off the flight if it ever slipped past my lips! I still force myself to fly though because I like to travel.

    On a side note, I'm so glad there's an airport in my hometown in central IL. It's very convenient for me and my family. But someone totally didn't believe me that there's an airport in my hometown. Like I'm going to make that up to impress people?

  2. janelle ·

    Airtran is so-so. What I don't like is that you usually have to fly through the Atlanta hub which is usually out of my way. But sounds like you're good with a direct flight. I also don't like that Airtran is simply the new name for an airline that had some serious accidents. The airline restructured themselves, renamed themselves Airtran and got a clean slate on the number of accidents they had because they were a "new" airline. Hopefully, they've dealt with the issues.

  3. james ·

    Jetblue has been the cheapest airline for me the past few flights I have had to take. But the options were really weird. Take my last flight for example.

    I could
    1)take the cheap flight direct to JFK for $100
    or
    2) Fly to Tampa direct and back to JFK for $1,080

    wha?

  4. ladycroft ·

    airtran is ok. nothing remarkable, nothing terrible.

    on my way to houston this summer i got to fly on a brand new jet and i was stoked. it was the first commercial flight. it smelled like a new car and i actually felt guilty that i left some pretzel crumbs in my seat.

    jet blue does some really weird flight plans. i was looking at some for later in the year when i have to travel to the US and i think they wanted to send me from boston to jfk to chicago to buffalo instead of boston to buffalo. it was going to take 12 hours. eh.

    just keep doing your own homework. it's takes more time but you eventually find that 'deal'.

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