Yeesh!

[mdlbear]

Finished making the flight reservations for GaFilk.  Missed the fantastic sale at American, but if I'd done it last week I would have screwed things up--there were things about the scheduling I didn't know at that point.   I feel like an idiot about the whole sorry mess, but that's not unusual.

Ended up having to use two airlines: AA for the SJC-ATL trip, and Delta for my side trip ATL-RSW to visit my Mom; AA doesn't have non-stop flights to that part of Florida.

The whole process took more than 2 hours close to 3, counting seat selection. And I'm not done yet! I HATE making travel arrangements!

Comments

The joys of being wanded in an airport

[trogula.livejournal.com]

Because you've got two one-way tickets, you will also almost certainly be pulled aside going and coming for being hand searched. One way tickets are one of the biggest security red flags at the airports - they're suppose to hand search all one way tickets.

(ATL airport security folks explained this to me last time Expedia decided I needed one airline flying out to Atlanta, and a different one flying back).

Re: The joys of being wanded in an airport

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Which, of course, means that any self-respecting terrorist is now buying round-trip tickets.

Actually, I don't.

[mdlbear]

I have two round trip tickets: one set between San Jose and Atlanta, and one set between Atlanta and Fort Myers. Perfectly reasonable.

It will be kind of stupid pulling my luggage off the Delta baggage claim and shoving it back in to American, but that's why I left myself 3 hours for the transfer.

Re: Actually, I don't.

[trogula.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I should read the post closer next time. My mistake. Doh! ;-)

Another thing

[chaoswolf]

Just because you hate airports doesn't mean it's all that bad. I was walking through a metal detector and the shoelace thingies on my shoes (which were metal) set it off once. They spent 20 minutes searching me and asked me to keep walking through it (I did about 3 times) to find out what beepeed. Finally, I took off the shoes & put them on the damned x-ray thingie. Look at it this way: Getting stuck in airport security FNAR is not as boring as it appears to be.

Re: Another thing

[mdlbear]

Been there, twice. First time it was metal arch supports built into my shoes; the second time it was a single penny in my pocket that I'd managed to miss when I cleaned them out.