Airlines suck

[fireflytx 0]

Did you know bereavement fares are not that cheap. They take the price the ticket would be normally and take 30% off and it is short notice so the ticket is originally high. To go from Austin to PA next week is originally $1000 and bereavement fare is $770. What cheap heartlless bastards!!!! you know there ar going to be empty seats on the flight and you know that people on that flight paid like $350 round trip. Why don't they just give me the price like if I had gotten the ticket a month ago. I am furious not to mention upset about my Gram.

My parents said they would pay for it but I still think this is bulls**t!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Well behaved women rarely make history"

[Jib 0]

Some don't give you squat!!!

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the depth of his depravity sickens me.
-- Jerry Falwell, People v. Larry Flynt

[tonyhays 86]

Read this, it may make you feel a bit better.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5892361

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

[wildblue 4]

Check with different airlines. Delta is more like 50% off 'unrestricted' fare. Still check expedia.com and orbitz, may be cheaper still - was for me a few months ago.

it's like incest - you're substituting convenience for quality

[imajacka55 0]

Have you tryed southwest? If they have a flight that fits you you can buy your ticket round trip on ebay for about 250 to 300. People sell there rapid rewards tickets all the time

Just a thought

[turtlespeed 212]

". . . the latest sign of the industry's upheaval as it lurches through a historic transformation."

Funny - I read it as Whoristic transformation.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[Stacy 0]

usiaarways got me a good bereavement fare a few years ago from palm beach to laguardia. the other airlines i called were ridiculous though.

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[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

My condolences to you and to your family for your Gram.

[billvon 2,400]

>They take the price the ticket would be normally and take 30% off
>and it is short notice so the ticket is originally high.

I think it's pretty nice that they reduce fares so you can travel more easily when someone you love dies.

>What cheap heartlless bastards!!!!

For giving you a cheaper ticket? "Fair" would be to charge you the same as everyone else. Why should someone whose mother just died get a cheaper fare than a woman going home to be with her mother for the last week of her life (for example)?