December 23, 2006 Air Travel
Well, after volunteering my seat tonight, I’m unexpectedly spending my evening in a Ramada inn in Philly, rather than at my parents’ house in Tennessee.
On the plus side, I scored $400 in travel credits, which will pretty much take care of the airfare for that trip to California I’ve been wanting to do next year. (And of course, they’re paying for the hotel and dinner, too.) It’s too bad these flights don’t have first class, or I would have pushed for a free upgrade… All in all though, I’m pretty impressed with how Southwest has handled it so far. (Not to mention the. cheapest. airfare. EVER. Their website leaves something to be desired, though.)
The only downside is that my flight leaves at 7:20 tomorrow, so I have to get up at like 4:30am. But in general, I’m a big fan of volunteering for free air travel… How many other ways could I make $400 in 5 minutes?
Get in line for a Wii when there is only enough for people in the line and you, find a sucker who missed the queue and agree to let him have the Wii (easiest way to make the most money) you buy or the chance to buy the Wii…okay not a reasonable way to make $400, but there IS eBay.
I’ll be looking into flights in the next few days as I’m considering visiting friends in the bay area- and to allow me to not be alone on St. Patrick’s Day…since last year it was John, Nathan and myself drinking more Jameson than our livers could handle…and with Easter coming up soon we will have to deal with John’s death and near coinciding birthday.
Hopefully I’ll be able to have a drink with my friend Nathan as well as hang out with folks that have moved out to the Bay area (Cheryl, Theresa & Crutcher…Sarah & Brady are looking into it.)
Didn’t plan on this comment getting past a quick way to profit off of opportunity. But I never did manage to drop single thoughts in single shots.
Comment by Andrew — March 1, 2007 @ 8:36 pm