11/03/2003 10:35:55 AM|||Travis|||

I am a comin' home!

I spent a good portion of yesterday researching the airline industry so I could maximize my savings for a ticket home. I finally settled on a series of three flights that will take me to such wonderful places as: Los Angels, Seattle and then finally Spokane where I will then take a bus back to Missoula on the 21st of December.

Perhaps the strangest thing I found was the Airhitch program. Aparently, there is an underground network of people who constantly monitor the airline industry so that they can get cheap tickets across the pond (the Atlantic). International flights are sometimes plagued with the problem that they are only at 50% capacity or so. What happens at this case is that the airlines will start to sell seats cheaply if there are some still left at a certain point in time. Its like they sell high priced seats..... sell more.... lalallala more high priced seats, and then suddenly they go OH SHIT. We only have sold 50% of the seats and the plane is leaving in a day! Quick, SELL FOR WHATEVER YOU CAN!

And that is when you walk up, purchase a cheap ass ticket and get to Europe for about $150.

I might try to do something like this next summer, or perhaps spent a couple weekends in Hawaii or some resort places in Mexico. They say, as long as you are flexible, it all works out. So even if you don't reach your specific destination, there is a really high probablity that you will be able to get to SOMEPLACE cool just by walking around the airport and finding some flight that isn't full.

I was going to do this for domestic flights, but aparently it doesn't work that well with domestic for some reason. The tickets are pretty cheap already, and there are restrictions placed by the airlines to protect thier high priced seats.

Airlines are cool.

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