Every single airport in the world (except the ONE I want to fly out of) is on sale!!!

[MScott1851]

This is SO frustrating. The only way DH agreed to a WDW trip is that we squeeze it in between two weekends that he is working. He will be doing sound and video screens for a Darryl Worley concert one weekend, and a concert for the Trail of Tears motorcycle ride the next.

He'll be working very long hours on Saturdays, will be pooped after these gigs, number one, not to mention there are some pretty small windows of flight times we can use. Any other trip, we'd have no problem flying out of Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham etc.

So...we will be trying to fly out of Huntsville, Alabama, non-stop on Delta. Usually no problem...usually pretty cheap. I don't want to be on a plane all day, either.

Here are the prices I've gotten this week:

Nashville-MCO $83 (but we'll have to drive 3 hours to get there, getting up at 4am after he worked til 1am)
Birmingham-MCO $83 (but a 2 hr drive to get there, getting up at 5am)
MUSCLE SHOALS, AL- MCO $145 (which is where we'll BE staying..but we get on the plane at noon, fly to freaking MEMPHIS, then not get to MCO until 5pm)

Huntsville-MCO $240!!!! I guess I get what I pay for, right? A non-stop, 10:15-12:55 flight that is 45 minutes away from my mom's house.

I know you guys don't care...but this is SO frustrating! I hate to ask him to get up super-early and drag him 200 miles just to save $200. Truth is, we'll probably end up paying for the Delta flight, because he keeps dragging his feet and telling me to wait and see if it goes on sale (which it hasn't in over a month). What does he care? I'm footing this trip!

I'm actually thinking that it is DELTA that is not on sale, now, not the airport. I can fly out of Huntsville pretty cheaply on other airlines, I just have to change planes in Guam to get to Orlando.

 

[luvthatdisney]

I thought you were talking about CLT (Charlotte) - it is rare to get cheap flights out of there!!

 

[Ms. Belle]

I feel your pain; I just moved to northwest Arkansas and it is extremely expensive to fly anywhere from here and it takes all day to get whereever you're going due to the connections. I would take the non-stop flight, it will lessen your stress.

 

[Tara]

Yeah, my sister is trying to find good airfare out of HSV and having no luck, either. I keep trying to get her to look at the $39 each way fares out of BHM, but she doesn't want to do that. (She's 60 miles from HSV and 120 miles from BHM.) She said "I'll just to Priceline." She thinks there's some option where she can bid AND pick times and I keep telling her she's wrong. Oh well, I tried.

How about if you offer to drive to BHM while he sleeps? Would that help? (and good luck with your fare search)

Oh, and to be honest, she's found slightly better fares out of Muscle Shoals (10 minutes from home), but the times aren't great.

 

[Disney_1derland]

I care! And I totally feel your pain, we've been through this even though Nashville is our preferred airport. There are some times of year that you just can't get a decent flight outta here. Non stops are getting harder and harder to come by, especially reasonably