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Mouseketeer
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Not really a gamble but it's great anyway!
The cheapest nonstop home left at 8:25am so it looked like it was going to be an early morning leaving to MCO. That means an early last night at WDW. I just noticed they changed the departure time from 8:25 to 8:05. Not that big a change but still means we have to catch DME at around 5:00am. I also noticed a 3:45 pm flight that said it had two seats left but they cost $60 more total for the 2of us. Heck we have been going over plans thinking about HoopDeeDoo dinner for $120. I'm thinking $60 more to be able to get up at a decent hour and leave WDW at noon is a no brainer. But what about the $75 per ticket AirTran charges for making changes? That could total $210. That would be to much. Where they changed the flight time I thought they would wave the $150 change fee? Well I called Airtran and talked to Varny, she was great. Changed my flight to the 3:45 flight for no charge at all. Not even the extra cost that the flight showed online! She also said there were plenty of seats available, just didn't show online. Cost of flying has gone up in a couple of years. I split the flights into two one ways on different airlines for a better price. Jet blue going down and AirTran home. I had been cursing myself for already booking
the earlier flight home thinking I should have waited for a better time.
Hope this makes sense? Doing the happy dance!
Pop
The cheapest nonstop home left at 8:25am so it looked like it was going to be an early morning leaving to MCO. That means an early last night at WDW. I just noticed they changed the departure time from 8:25 to 8:05. Not that big a change but still means we have to catch DME at around 5:00am. I also noticed a 3:45 pm flight that said it had two seats left but they cost $60 more total for the 2of us. Heck we have been going over plans thinking about HoopDeeDoo dinner for $120. I'm thinking $60 more to be able to get up at a decent hour and leave WDW at noon is a no brainer. But what about the $75 per ticket AirTran charges for making changes? That could total $210. That would be to much. Where they changed the flight time I thought they would wave the $150 change fee? Well I called Airtran and talked to Varny, she was great. Changed my flight to the 3:45 flight for no charge at all. Not even the extra cost that the flight showed online! She also said there were plenty of seats available, just didn't show online. Cost of flying has gone up in a couple of years. I split the flights into two one ways on different airlines for a better price. Jet blue going down and AirTran home. I had been cursing myself for already booking
the earlier flight home thinking I should have waited for a better time.
Hope this makes sense? Doing the happy dance!
Pop
if they change our non stop to a stop over! I absolutely HATE flying and the only way I will is if it's non stop. Any idea why they would change it? Is it to fill up the plane more? Just curious because our plane is filling up nicely 
There are 17 flights from BOS - MCO the day we fly..only 2 of which are non stop..I can't see why they would add another stop over flight 
Oh dear, I have 42 days to go and now panic is started to set in, I can feel it! 
My flight was supposed to leave DFW at 7:00am and land in MCO at 9:20am. I made late lunch reservations for that day and then about a month before my flight, checked my flights one day just to discover that my nonstop flight had disappeared, there were no others, and I had been placed on a flight with a 4 1/2 layover in Atlanta. There was a flight that left Dallas an hour before mine and had only a 45 minute layover in Atlanta, so I called to switch to that one, just to be told that there were no seats available on that flight. I was not happy as I lost most of the first day of my trip.
