You better not pout, you better not cry
Christmas in August? Yep, when you're in a department with almost 20 other people, you gotta claim your Christmas time off days now, baby. So I locked those up with my team leader today.
Then I decided to go to Continental's website and shop for our plane tickets, more out of curiosity than anything. OMFG!!!!!!!1~~!@!! $900 a ticket?!? WTF1000?!?!?!?
Oh, but I could save $600... all we'd have to do is travel between the 19th and the 24th. Uhhhh, and the point of that is...? On the negative sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
So after I recovered from my coronary, I went over to Kayak and searched for some reasonable goddamn alternatives. I found us a fare for just under $400 apiece on US Airways from Philly to Kansas City. Jesus, that's a little better. We save $120 by flying out early Sunday morning (instead of going on Saturday), and we come back on the 26th. We could have gone even cheaper by going with a different airline and stopping over in Milwaukee, but the layover on the way back would have been worryingly brief. And what are the chances of bad weather on December 26th that could delay our flight??? So nonstop is the way to go.
Anyway, if you're planning to fly home for the holidays, you may want to start checking on flights now. Day-um.
Then I decided to go to Continental's website and shop for our plane tickets, more out of curiosity than anything. OMFG!!!!!!!1~~!@!! $900 a ticket?!? WTF1000?!?!?!?
Oh, but I could save $600... all we'd have to do is travel between the 19th and the 24th. Uhhhh, and the point of that is...? On the negative sixth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
So after I recovered from my coronary, I went over to Kayak and searched for some reasonable goddamn alternatives. I found us a fare for just under $400 apiece on US Airways from Philly to Kansas City. Jesus, that's a little better. We save $120 by flying out early Sunday morning (instead of going on Saturday), and we come back on the 26th. We could have gone even cheaper by going with a different airline and stopping over in Milwaukee, but the layover on the way back would have been worryingly brief. And what are the chances of bad weather on December 26th that could delay our flight??? So nonstop is the way to go.
Anyway, if you're planning to fly home for the holidays, you may want to start checking on flights now. Day-um.