Charter Flight to Salt Lake City

[martymoose]

Not living in Wichita, all of those prices seem high to me. Has anyone looked into driving to KC and flying from there? Salt Lake City is a hub and round trips, even on short notice, shouldn't be a grand each. It's not like you're flying to Europe.


Just a thought.

A buddy of mine is flying from Dallas for $500. KC is is around 900...no good deals out there.

[ShockTalk]

A buddy of mine is flying from Dallas for $500. KC is is around 900...no good deals out there.

Short Notice = Airlines have you by the nads.

[MoValley John]

Short Notice = Airlines have you by the nads.

For fun I just shopped it on Travelocity. Round trip ICT to SLC and back for $630. Limited seats and you have to travel Wed morning and return Sunday. American Airlines subsidiary.

EARLY Wednesday morning.

[MoValley John]

Edit: I just went back to get a screen capture to help. It is now sold out and flights are all $1,200 and up. Sucks. They sold those seats fast!

[martymoose]

Edit: I just went back to get a screen capture to help. It is now sold out and flights are all $1,200 and up. Sucks. They sold those seats fast!

Or the more likely option you did the search incorrectly the first time...lol

[MoValley John]

Or the more likely option you did the search incorrectly the first time...lol

Nope. I did it three times. Kansas City had fares from $707, but when I went to hit the finalize transaction, it jumped to over a grand. From Omaha, it was $758 and didn't change. Me thinks the airlines are bending you guys over.

[MoValley John]

If you can leave Wed and come back Monday, you can fly from the ICT for $607.

[ABC]

If you can leave Wed and come back Monday, you can fly from the ICT for $607.

And who has time to do this except kids not in kindergarten yet and retirees like RDR? And then you have five hotel nights. I am saving my money for Los Angeles.

[shox1989]

And who has time to do this except kids not in kindergarten and retirees like RDR? And then you have five hotel nights. I am saving my money for Los Angeles.

The extra hotel nights will eat up your savings.

[Kung Wu]

I'd take some of you guys but the bubble gum holding on one of my props let go:

[C0|dB|00ded]

Hotel prices aren't a problem unless the city is short on capacity. I have stayed all over the country for ridiculously low prices obtained through Priceline.com. I'm talking 49 bucks a night in a 3 star Embassy suites in the Galleria, Tx area cheap. It was a suite with central air, a separate "family" room and two flat screens (one in bedroom and one in family room). I was embarrassed as hell but quietly smiled after taking advantage of the generous happy hour at 4pm and the wonderful breakfast buffet the following morning.


T


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[martymoose]

Sorry, guys but there are no reasonable flights out of Wichita for under $1000....KC is $900 and over...same goes for OKC ant TUL...we've looked at flying out of Denver, Dallas and all the little airports. I'm the master at finding discount flights/hotels whatever. You aren't going to find anything I haven't seen already. I'd love to leave ICT tomorrow and come back Monday, but taking 3 extra days of vacation for those of us who are employed combined with 2 - 3 nights of hotel and meals make that way more costly just to save $100 on the flight.

It's too bad more Shocker fans aren't going... guess we have a long drive ahead of us.

[martymoose]

Hotel prices aren't a problem unless the city is short on capacity. I have stayed all over the country for ridiculously low prices obtained through Priceline.com. I'm talking 49 bucks a night in a 3 star Embassy suites in the Galleria, Tx area cheap. It was a suite with central air, a separate "family" room and two flat screens (one in bedroom and one in family room). I was embarrassed as hell but quietly smiled after taking advantage of the generous happy hour at 4pm and the wonderful breakfast buffet the following morning.


T


...:cool:

Why'd you pay so much...? I've booked the Marriot for under $25 on multiple occasions...

[ShockBand]

Why'd you pay so much...? I've booked the Marriot for under $25 on multiple occasions...

Any special tactics with using Priceline that you guys would share?

[martymoose]

Any special tactics with using Priceline that you guys would share?

I've been using Priceline since the beginning. If you use it a lot like I do, you get special offers. For example if you bid $10 per day on a rental car, priceline pitches in $5 per day to up your bid. You can get the same type of deal on hotels. I've had them offer to add $25 per day on hotels. Another really good tool to use is http://www.betterbidding.com/ It's pretty cool, they will ID hotels for you on Hotwire and let you know the lowest price you can bid on Priceline to get what you're looking for.