Hollow victories
Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:39 pm
Lately, they're all I can get.
Well, my free tickets on Delta ended up costing me $250 to procure. But, I learned me a lesson or 2.
We were able to get an earlier flight from ATL to STT. We're now arriving at 2:15 instead of 3:40. Huge difference if you ask me. I never wanted the later flight, but in December, it was all I could get at the lower miles rate. Once we decided "Screw it", we want to get there at 2:15, I was on a mission. If I could find Sky Saver 1st Class, I'd be all over it like stink on my feet. We were already planning to do that on the way home.
So, today, I re-booked us. We're stylin' all the way from RDU to STT and then all the way home.
I think we deserve it. I've spent the last 3 weeks away from home and will spend either 2 of the 3 heading into t he trip or 3 straight into the trip away from home too. My poor wife has been shuttling the little one all over Raleigh for 2 weeks now while I have been unable to assist at home in any capacity. We're going to need the trip, and knowing we don't have to sit in the back of the plane makes the light at the end of the tunnel a little brighter.
1st class both ways, a new house on StJ and then, at the end, a night at the Frenchman's Reef...upgraded due to my Platinum status..I can handle that.
Well, my free tickets on Delta ended up costing me $250 to procure. But, I learned me a lesson or 2.
We were able to get an earlier flight from ATL to STT. We're now arriving at 2:15 instead of 3:40. Huge difference if you ask me. I never wanted the later flight, but in December, it was all I could get at the lower miles rate. Once we decided "Screw it", we want to get there at 2:15, I was on a mission. If I could find Sky Saver 1st Class, I'd be all over it like stink on my feet. We were already planning to do that on the way home.
So, today, I re-booked us. We're stylin' all the way from RDU to STT and then all the way home.
I think we deserve it. I've spent the last 3 weeks away from home and will spend either 2 of the 3 heading into t he trip or 3 straight into the trip away from home too. My poor wife has been shuttling the little one all over Raleigh for 2 weeks now while I have been unable to assist at home in any capacity. We're going to need the trip, and knowing we don't have to sit in the back of the plane makes the light at the end of the tunnel a little brighter.
1st class both ways, a new house on StJ and then, at the end, a night at the Frenchman's Reef...upgraded due to my Platinum status..I can handle that.