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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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 Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject: Just bought my plane tickets today |
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Cost me a nice 3 mil for the wife, 2 kids (babies) and myself to fly back to Canada.
For all you n00bs here, get your tickets early. We had a semi-hard time finding a good, direct flight home.
Two and a half months in Canada with the family. I don't know if that's good or not. The only positive thing I can think of is boxing day(week) sales. My wife knows about them, but has never experienced them. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: Re: Just bought my plane tickets today |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
Cost me a nice 3 mil for the wife, 2 kids (babies) and myself to fly back to Canada.
For all you n00bs here, get your tickets early. We had a semi-hard time finding a good, direct flight home.
Two and a half months in Canada with the family. I don't know if that's good or not. The only positive thing I can think of is boxing day(week) sales. My wife knows about them, but has never experienced them. |
Make sure you request the bulhead and sky-cribs / baby baskets for the kids. The flight is too long to leave them in your lap.
They should also include a baby kit for each of them with diapers, butt cream, a toy or two and a couple jars of baby food each.
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: Re: Just bought my plane tickets today |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
Cost me a nice 3 mil for the wife, 2 kids (babies) and myself to fly back to Canada.
For all you n00bs here, get your tickets early. We had a semi-hard time finding a good, direct flight home.
Two and a half months in Canada with the family. I don't know if that's good or not. The only positive thing I can think of is boxing day(week) sales. My wife knows about them, but has never experienced them. |
I'm still on a WAITING list for a one way flight out of this country....And it's still going to be over 1 million just for me  |
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mrsquirrel
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: Just bought my plane tickets today |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
Cost me a nice 3 mil for the wife, 2 kids (babies) and myself to fly back to Canada.
For all you n00bs here, get your tickets early. We had a semi-hard time finding a good, direct flight home.
Two and a half months in Canada with the family. I don't know if that's good or not. The only positive thing I can think of is boxing day(week) sales. My wife knows about them, but has never experienced them. |
Make sure you request the bulhead and sky-cribs / baby baskets for the kids. The flight is too long to leave them in your lap.
They should also include a baby kit for each of them with diapers, butt cream, a toy or two and a couple jars of baby food each.
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If they are not available don't forget the overhead lockers can also be used for infant storage. |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
Location: 700 Ft. Pulpit
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: Just bought my plane tickets today |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
| get your tickets early. |
How early is early? I have to go back to Canada in May for my sister's wedding and I'd like to get the best price I can. I never cared about the prices before because my school always paid.  |
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anyangoldboy
Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Apparently Singapore airlines is the cheapest to get back to Canada |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Is the butt cream the universal type...? |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Apparently Singapore airlines is the cheapest to get back to Canada |
I'm no going to Canada but I figured I'd look at Singapore Air and what does it cost for a one way ticket to NY? 3,152,400 won. NICE-UH!  |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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I would kill for that price! I went to Toronto with the wife and 3 month old in August... cost us 3.9 million. And, we booked about 5 months ahead of time.
As for the flight... 13 hours and little Newbie slept for 12.5 |
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NightSky
Joined: 19 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:52 pm Post subject: Re: Just bought my plane tickets today |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
Cost me a nice 3 mil for the wife, 2 kids (babies) and myself to fly back to Canada.
For all you n00bs here, get your tickets early. We had a semi-hard time finding a good, direct flight home.
Two and a half months in Canada with the family. I don't know if that's good or not. The only positive thing I can think of is boxing day(week) sales. My wife knows about them, but has never experienced them. |
where in Canada? That's not that bad actually... |
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pest2
Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| We got ours last week! Singapore Airlines, two 1-way tickets to Melbourne, OZ for only 1,600$ (800 apiece). |
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sojourner1
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug
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It appears that if you buy several months ahead of time, you are getting charged the full retail price instead of market price. If you buy directly from airlines, you are being charged full retail price. Also travel agents can produce better deals than airlines since they often buy in bulk. Often, if it's like say, 2 weeks before a scheduled flight, you can bet those tickets still available are not being offered at full retail price.
RT to the states now is only $1000 US on Northwest airlines due to a special they are running.
Last month, I paid $1500 for a last minute RT flight on Northwest. I bought the ticket like 15 hours before the flight. Don't ask me how I did it, because a Korean helped me and I paid him for it. Normally, this flight would be priced at clearly double that. I still got my miles added to my frequent flyer miles account despite not booking with the airline itself. |
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Pak Yu Man
Joined: 02 Jun 2005
Location: The Ida galaxy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Just bought my plane tickets today |
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| NightSky wrote: |
| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
Cost me a nice 3 mil for the wife, 2 kids (babies) and myself to fly back to Canada.
For all you n00bs here, get your tickets early. We had a semi-hard time finding a good, direct flight home.
Two and a half months in Canada with the family. I don't know if that's good or not. The only positive thing I can think of is boxing day(week) sales. My wife knows about them, but has never experienced them. |
where in Canada? That's not that bad actually... |
Ottawa, which makes it awesome. We went back about 2 years ago and it cost us about 3.5. I don't know why this one is such a good deal...I just made the wife pull out the plastic and pay right there and then.
Tom..we already reserved the baby thing. We are allowed to carry an extra 45 kilos of baggage per kid. I think we'll abuse that on the way back.
Customs states "1 litre of alcohol per person" Are my 2 month old kids persons yet? If not I'll have to fill the baby bags with coffee and snacks. |
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Jizzo T. Clown
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
Location: at my wit's end
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: Just bought my plane tickets today |
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| Pak Yu Man wrote: |
Cost me a nice 3 mil for the wife, 2 kids (babies) and myself to fly back to Canada.
For all you n00bs here, get your tickets early. We had a semi-hard time finding a good, direct flight home.
Two and a half months in Canada with the family. I don't know if that's good or not. The only positive thing I can think of is boxing day(week) sales. My wife knows about them, but has never experienced them. |
How "early" are we talking? |
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MarionG
Joined: 14 Sep 2006
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My daughter flew round trip JFK to Incheon for Chuseok, arriving on 9-21. She didn't buy her ticket until about 10 days before (I was going crazy, and thought SHE was crazy to wait!) She ended up paying $792 round trip on United, one 2 hour stop in SFO.
She set up a whole lot of "fair watch" things with various ticket suppliers and airlines, and pounced on this fare when it popped into her email. |
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