October 16, 2002
Traveling in style

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
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