javamom
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I am a real novice when it comes to air travel. I have only ever booked one other flight than this one... and that one was pre-911 through Priceline. At any rate, here is my thinking:
We wanted to travel from Monday to Monday and we wanted to fly non-stop service.
We decided that this would necessitate flying out of a different airport because our local carrier only has non-stop flights on Saturdays.
When pricing I found that even if I flew out of my airport on Saturday, it would cost me more than the flight I did book. It was also more expensive to book a Monday to Monday flight from my city to MCO with 1 layover.
Summary: all around just cheaper.
Downside: several hour drive to the airport and then back again when we return home.
All of this to setup my basis for booking this flight. I got 5 roundtrip tickets from Kansas City to Orlando for $985.50 taxes and all included. And I was able to pick my seat assignments (which was a big thing to me traveling with 2 under 10).
Personally, I was thrilled that it came in under 1K at all, but then again, I am a flight novice. I considered waiting to see if the price would go up and down a bit, but I noticed that there were already a dozen seats already taken on the flights in question, so I went ahead and booked it.
What do you think, not that I can do anything about it now...lol?!

OM dear Lord, I just found a bunch of posts about Delta... oh I cannot believe this. Here's to me praying that my flights aren't mangled.
/e bangs head on computer monitor repeatedly!!!


We wanted to travel from Monday to Monday and we wanted to fly non-stop service.
We decided that this would necessitate flying out of a different airport because our local carrier only has non-stop flights on Saturdays.
When pricing I found that even if I flew out of my airport on Saturday, it would cost me more than the flight I did book. It was also more expensive to book a Monday to Monday flight from my city to MCO with 1 layover.

Summary: all around just cheaper.
Downside: several hour drive to the airport and then back again when we return home.

All of this to setup my basis for booking this flight. I got 5 roundtrip tickets from Kansas City to Orlando for $985.50 taxes and all included. And I was able to pick my seat assignments (which was a big thing to me traveling with 2 under 10).
Personally, I was thrilled that it came in under 1K at all, but then again, I am a flight novice. I considered waiting to see if the price would go up and down a bit, but I noticed that there were already a dozen seats already taken on the flights in question, so I went ahead and booked it.
What do you think, not that I can do anything about it now...lol?!

OM dear Lord, I just found a bunch of posts about Delta... oh I cannot believe this. Here's to me praying that my flights aren't mangled.
/e bangs head on computer monitor repeatedly!!!


