Work is sending me to the right coast when I'd rather be watching baseball out... on... the left coast. So I'm gonna make 'em pay - I'm seeing my fiancee this weekend, and they're gonna have to fly me from Michigan out to Raleigh.
All of our travel is web-based on a fairly slick web site. Here's my interaction with the travel web site:
Me: I'd like to fly from Midland to Raleigh, please.
Travel Web Site: Okay. Here are some crappy connections that will cost you $1200.
Me: WHA....?
TWS: But thanks to internal travel policies, I was forced to search for other flights and was suddenly able to pull some much better and cheaper flights out of my virtual ass. Oh, look at this one...
Me: Does that say First Class? At half the price?!
TWS: Hrmm... well, I guess it does.
Me: SWEET!
TWS: So, would you like chardonnay or merlot?
So I'm flying first out to Raleigh, but coach back... but I'm not complaining. The only weird thing - How did I go from a $1200 coach-only ticket to a first/coach combo for almost half the price?
The mind boggles. I'll let you know how the vino is!
Posted by Austin at October 16, 2002 11:21 AM