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No matter how big your smile and how short your skirt, getting your wrong-date free tickets moved up to your secret-real-pre-planned date must be tougher when you've got two carry-on dogs with you.
No matter how big your smile and how short your skirt, getting your wrong-date free tickets moved up to your secret-real-pre-planned date must be tougher when you've got two carry-on dogs with you.
ModerateSnark must be drunk on the sense of power he's gotten from being in the best comments section for two weeks in a row. He's just spouting gibberish now.
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It's actually a kind of Dada approach to commenting. Moderate has moved beyond us onto a new plain of commentary.
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Dear Evil Minions,
It worked! We've finally made our system so difficult to use that passengers are begging to hang out at the airport all day and pay us an extra 50 bucks just to be allowed to spend their miles. And they actually seem to think they're getting away with something! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
-- Your Evil Airline Frequent-Flyer Director
Now, I mostly fly business only type flights, Detroit to St Louis,Detroit to WDC, but those flights in the last couple of months havebeen FULL, unless I flew on Sunday evening. Forget it, if you don'thave a seat, you'll be hanging at the airport, doing the sucker dance.And without a valid boarding pass you can't even wait at the bar for aseat to open.
Take it from the Frequent Flyer(TM), this is not smart advice.
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\"Sucker Dance\" -- that's rich.
I've never tried this with a free ticket, but I can tell you that when I had some difficulties during a trip to NYC last year and had to return early, I was able to go to the airport (LaGuardia) and ask the airline (Northwest) that I be allowed to fly back right now (Monday) instead of my original return date (Thursday). They charged me $35 to change the tickets and put me on a flight departing in an hour. I was pleased.
I have to say that I have flown on many frequent flier tickets and will only subscribe to the program that American Airlines offers. I've always been able to get the dates I need. If for some chance you can't, book a date and then you can change the ticket as many times as you want for no extra charge (as far as I've encountered). I once decided I wanted to leave a vacation a week early and called that morning and was on a flight that afternoon, no questions asked, no charges.
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This tactic is great for men who bring one small overnight bag with a suit and a toothbrush for a week in Europe.
This just made the must-pre-plan-everything control-freak section of my brain implode.
Seriously, there are people in this world who don't mind packing up their stuff on some random date and closing up their house and going to the airport and standing in line without actually being reasonably sure they'll actually make it onto an airplane that day? Golly!
I mean, who will take care of the cat?