Flight booking trickery....

[c-towns]

I book a fair amount of last minute tickets and while booking today there was 3 seats left on the last flight leaving Freddy to Toronto for $1000 each.

The Air Canada guy told me to do the following;

Buy a ticket for the future with the same destinations(I got one for under $300) and come in an hour before the flight and switch the date to get on tonights flight, at most they can charge at the counter in the airport is $150, but the guy said he won't charge me anything.

I guess its a gamble of someone buying the last 3 seats at $1000 a piece but people are on stand-by for the earlier flight, which if they get on, will open more seats on the later flight. It is Thanksgiving weekend which makes the stakes higher I guess but saving $700 might be worth it.

Any tips on killing time in an airport?

[phishtaper]

Any tips on killing time in an airport?

[c-towns]

thanks, I'll stare at the gentleman as I wait?

[phishtaper]

he ain't no gentleman. he's US Senator Larry Craig and he's got his own way of killing time in airports ...

[AD]

tap tap. tap tap.

[c-towns]

I've already got my number written on the mens room wall...

[Davey Boy 2.0]

[phishtaper]

impressive, DB. impressive.

[Ol'Hickster]

Go to the bar

[c-towns]

must you point out the obvious Hickster?

[bouche]

you need a Nintendo DS for times like this. Zelda - Phantom Hourglass will kill HOURS.

[c-towns]

Flight sold out....stuck in Freddy another night, may as well go see You Say Party I Say Die!!

Gamble lost...

[Ol'Hickster]

Obvious is what I do best! and Im playing phantom hour glass at the moment deffinatly a time killer!

[c-towns]

Gamble won, saw YSPWSD, slept for an hour and caught a flight in the morning saving roughly 600-800.

Can't wait to start over again on Tuesday.

[dave-O]

I've been told that Air Canada flights out of Moncton and Fredericton have been averaging at over 95% capacity (or something around there) for the last year, while the airline industry standard is somewhere around 65-70%.

There just aren't enough flights to get people the hell out of New Brunswick.