Flights of Curiousity

[bjarvis]

I began shopping this morning for flights to the IAGSDC convention in Anaheim at the end of June, with a prior side trip to Portland, OR, for a family reunion, and I'm rather intrigued by the results.

The plan is to fly from the greater DC area --I'm about equidistant between BWI, DCA and IAD so I'm not particular about the departure point-- to PDX for a few days, then on to LAX and flying from LAX directly back to DC. If there are direct flights from LAX to either BWI or IAD, neither Cheaptickets.com, Travelocity nor Orbitz knows of them: all flights seem to have a stopover or plane change before coming to DC. Go figure.

The quest continues...

Comments

[fuzzygruf.livejournal.com]

Seeing your post, I just went to check out some airfares for convention. I have some voucher on Alaska Airlines, so I just went to see prices. I checked from San Francisco to SNA. One of the itineraries routes me from San Francisco up to Portland, OR, then down to SNA with one stop in OAKLAND. OMFG!

[urbear]

Why so reluctant to connect? Geez, you'd think you were a New Yorker. I fly almost every week and about 75% of my flights involve a connection; it's no big deal.

[rlegters.livejournal.com]

Odd. I just found 6 or 7 nonstops a day on United and American, and a couple on Alaska, using Expedia.com. I wonder why the other sites aren't seeing these?

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to get confused on what I have and haven't booked for trips coming up, and I always have to check my trip folders to see what's done...WHEN I think about it. I had to double check to see if I had booked my flight to Philly in 2 weeks. Gawd.

Danny reminded me today that we haven't booked our flight to LAX yet...and I haven't booked my flight to San Antonio for myself for Nationals yet, for the week before.

I'm sure there are handy directions somewhere on how to get FROM LAX to Anaheim, but I haven't gotten that far yet...

And if it's any comfort, not much goes direct ANYWHERE from Albuquerque...just to places I never go.