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[nibot]

I managed to get credit for my airline flights to Europe on two separate mileage programs. I feel so clever! Free trip to Alaska! I also got American Airlines credit for my El Al flight which was over a year ago. Nifty!

Does anyone have any tips on getting good Southwest fares? It's only listing the $96 superflexible option right now, SNA to OAK 2003-10-15. Or $29 on SWA from Ontario.. hmm.

I am flying 2003-10-04 16:50 from CPH to London Stansted. Unfortunately I am a procrastinator, so the flight became uncheap. Actually, with the current value of the U.S. Dollar, all of Sweden is uncheap.

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[baseballump.livejournal.com]

easyJet Copenhagen-Stansted (the flight you'll be on): 620 Danish kronor

Ryanair Malmö-Stansted is 420 Swedish kronor on October 4th. Bummer...

[baseballump.livejournal.com]

... and as we all know(?), 620 Danish kronor is about 800 Swedish.
(All prices incl. tax)

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Uurgh! I can swear to you that when I checked ryanAir, it came up at SEK 822 with tax. But you´re right, now it offers SEK 422. )-: Maybe I put in the date wrongly, or something.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Additionally, there was some super deal on kryssningar from Stockholm to Tallinn this week. My cabinmate on the ship paid only SEK 180 for the kryssning to Tallinn. I paid EEK 800 (SEK 453) for one half of that journey (the return half, so the buy-a-roundtrip-ticket-but-only-use-half-of-it idea woun't work).

[nibot.livejournal.com]

The EasyJet flight turned out to be better than the RyanAir flight anyway, because the EasyJet flight was later (less time loafing around at the airport) but, more importantly, EasyJet is less strict about the baggage limit. With RyanAir I would have had to pay a fee that I think would have made the flight more expensive than the EasyJet flight. So things worked out for the best.

[baseballump.livejournal.com]

I have to pay 3000 dollars for baseball umpiring school, so I wouldn't mind if the dollar value dropped some more :-)

cheap SWA flights

[auressiel.livejournal.com]

Have you tried looking at flights leaving and arriving on Tuesdays? Flights on that day have a tendency to be cheaper than on other days of the week.