Thursday, June 28, 2007

Last minute airline deals

My coworker came to me in a panic yesterday. She needed an airline ticket for her son visiting Chicago next week. He's a Marine on base near Palm Springs, CA. The big catch -he couldn't leave until the evening of July 2 and had to return early evening on July5. After searching expedia, travelocity, hotwire, and site59, I was in a little bit of panic! Finally, we found something fairly reasonable on good ole Southwest. After a calm lull in the office, she found out that she had to change the tickets since her son couldn't get from his base to Los Angeles in time for his flight. Unfortunately, Southwest didn't have anything later. Thankfully, she was able to cancel her Southwest flight for a later flight on US Airways. It's funny how sometimes airlines offer better deals than the 1 stop airline sites.

Anyone else have similar experiences?

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