I will be taking a trip to los angeles in october for a week and was just wondering if westjet would be a better choice then air canada.
Westjet will most likely be cheaper, but it is a barebones flight. Pack your own food as a meal most likely will not be served.
Also, Alaska Airlines first class tickets were a lot cheaper than other airlines. Is there a big difference between first class of other airlines? What's included?
Differences in cost? Perhaps because a lot of the Alaska's newer jets (737-800s and 737-900s) have a higher fraction of first class seats (four rows) to coach than older configurations that other airlines fly. So they tend to have more first class seats for sale (and free upgrades for their elite mileage plan members) than Other Airlines.
Differences in service: You board first. You get a nice, free meal when the back of the bus has to pay $5 for a chicken sandwhich. You get a free digiplayer with about 20 movies on it ($10 otherwise) on their longer flights. You get free alcoholic drinks (otherwise $5 each). They serve you before the rest of the plane. Bigger seats and more legroom are the biggest perks. Maybe that's worth $50 to you. Maybe $300.
Differences between other airlines' first class. Not much. Alaska is nicer than most to start with. They don't offer power connections for your laptop/gameboy/cell phone like some airlines do in business class and first class (because they don't fly widebodies, only 737s on long flights and a few MD-80s on shorter hauls).
It is much easier to sleep in first class so maybe you book a red-eye, save a day (of work or vacation) and/or a hotel room night. That might combine to be worth $100-300.
Is it worth it? Argument for: I sat next to a guy in coach last week who was about 6'8" and in pain because his thigh bones were longer than the seat pitch. I gave him my exit-door seat with the extra legroom.
Argument against: You only get off the plane 1-5 minutes before coach. If you spend $300 (or whatever) extra for a 5+5 hour round trip, you could be "earning" $30 tax-free an hour by sitting in coach. That's like a salary of $40/hour. Or put the $300 into booze, in-flight movies and maybe a chair massage at the airport and still have $250 left over.
But sometimes (honeymoon, a reward to yourself, tough day ahead), it's good to be nice to yourself.
What Hotels near Universal Studios Hollywood offer a complimentary shuttle to the park OTHER THAN the Hilton, Sheraton, and the Marriott Burbank Airport? As a bonus, do any of them offer free or discounted tickets to the park?
Thanks in advance!
Check out the Beverly Garland hotel.
I am flying Moscow - Delhi - Kathmandu and am considering getting the tickets at www.travelocity.com
I can get an e-ticket for the Moscow - Delhi flight but not for Delhi-Kathmandu, only a paper ticket. How do they deliver / how do i get hold of the paper ticket?
They should mail them to you. Call them to be sure.
Im going to Chicago From Detroit on friday and my ticket for round trip is going to cost me 125$. Can I take a visa gift card from like CVS and use it to buy my e-ticket??
If you look at the small print on the packaging, you will see that there can not be used for airline ticket purchases. Your luck may vary if you go to the airport or a travel agency but then you have to pay extra fees for your ticket.
I've not decided where I will head for after touring Perth so maybe you can give me some suggestions.
However, I'm not familiar with the types of budget airlines which provide domestic routes in Australia other than Qantas. Can you tell me which other airlines operate from Perth airport to (1) Sydney, (2) Melbourne and (3) Brisbane and (4) Queensland?
Thanks.
Qantas is not a budget airline but quite often have sales. Keep an eye open for them.
I would recommend against Jetstar, their flights get delayed and cancelled and are quite unreliable. They also fly into different airports then Other Airlines, further from the cities.
To Sydney - Try Virgin Blue or Qantas. Tiger do not fly to Sydney.
Melbourne - Virgin Blue or Tiger, but check that Tiger flys to Tullamarine. You DO NOT want to go to Avalon.
Brisbane is in Queensland. You have Brisbane airport and another south of the Gold Coast in Coolongatta. Virgin Blue only fly to Brisbane which isn't too much of a problem, not if you wish to see both cities anyway, from Brisbane you can also travel north towards Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef. I'm not sure if Tiger fly to QLD. Qantas fly to both airports.
I am not receiving some emails and I do not know why. I have told Alaska Airlines four times my email address and I am not getting their reservation confirmations. I have not received two other emails that I was told I should have received.
Well it depends what email service you're using. E.g. Yahoo and GMail have spam folders you can dive into and find blocked messages. In GMail (and most others), you can mark a message which has been mistakenly filed as spam - and it will learn from that mistake.
You shouldn't need to. Most aircraft from Northwest have movie screens right on the back of the seat in front of you. Yes, even in coach.
And the movies are free. The most you should need are headphones, and you can either buy them on the plane for 3 bucks or bring your own.
But you can call them just to be sure your flight has the screens.
My American friend Susan will be be traveling around Ecuador and Colombia before I return to the US, she would like to fit in a trip to Cuba. Is there any additional risks in going from
Ecuador to Cuba to Colombia to the United States
or
Colombia to Cuba to Colombia to the United States
instead of going to Cuba via Cancun or Nassau like most Americans do?
It looks like I could do all this on Copa Airlines (though it isn’t very cheap, and every flight has a connection through Panama) and pay by credit card. I just want to make sure that she not making a mistake by doing it this way.
Hello Dear
It doesn’t seem to me that flying from Ecuador to Cuba would be risky for an American,
I do know that it’s easy to get a flight from Quito to Havana, and a round trip fare (probably around US $400) might be most economical. As you noted, that flight, on Copa, goes via Panama City, and you could jump off there instead of returning to Quito, if you didn’t want to go all the way back. But if you decided to do it that way, you might want to pop into the Panama embassy in Quito and check on visa requirements for Panama, and get a tourist card if one is needed, before you leave
Best of Luck!