No California for me
I was tempted by the full-page ad in the Metro advertising direct BOS-SAN flights on American starting April 7, and a promotional $117 (*) fare through mid-May...tempted enough to mention it to my parents, even. I went and actually looked tonight, to find out that (*) that fare is Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday only, and something like "fly out Friday evening and take a red-eye back Sunday night" is still horrendously expensive; also, that unless I want to take multiple days of vacation the only 2-3 night trips that fare is actually available is the weekends of 26 April and 3 May, both of which (along with 10 May) I already have plans for.
So what this really works out to is that I'd need to spend $250, a day of vacation, and skip something I was planning to do here in order to see my parents for one day, or spread it out to the full weekend (and Friday and Monday) at the cost of two more vacation days. I think (having just seen them three weeks ago) that's not really worth it to me.
So what this really works out to is that I'd need to spend $250, a day of vacation, and skip something I was planning to do here in order to see my parents for one day, or spread it out to the full weekend (and Friday and Monday) at the cost of two more vacation days. I think (having just seen them three weeks ago) that's not really worth it to me.