Harry Palmer wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I want to take my family on a 5 day holiday from Chicago to Las Vegas stay
> overnight, take a helicopter down the grand canyon, stay another night in
> Las Vegas then figure out the rest of the week from there.
>
> My question is can you get good deals if you just turn up at the airport
> booking desk. Lets say that the next flight is to Northern California and we
> figure why not see the Redwoods, would the airline booker be able to cut us
> a great deal on seats that would otherwise be empty?
No you won't. Airlines are overbooking, esp to popular destinations
like Vegas or SF.
>
> I would also be interested in tapping into the private pilots network to pay
> part of the fuel to someone already headed somewhere that has three empty
> seats. How do we find these folks is there a web site?
>
Airplane fuel is very expensive. You won't save any money this way.
Besides, unless you are very very flexible with your schedule, you'll
end up wasting a lot of time trying to make these arrangements.
>
>
> I don't want to structure this holiday so we are constantly running to some
> schedule and I am really sick of planning things only to have everything
> turn to crap because some dickhead screwed up the booking. This time I want
> to just go with the flow.
>
> thanks for any information.
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