Airlines are weird

It's a love/hate relationship w/ airlines. On the one hand, you have your Jetblue's which have fairly transparent ticket pricing: you buy two one way tickets with prices that generally make sense based on intuitive supply/demand principles. But on the other hand, you have your traditional airlines that have more expensive prices overall, but for the savvy frequent-flier, e-savers email subscriber, last minute, Travelocity, Site-59, SideStep, traveller there are all sorts of deals.

Case in point, about 3 weeks ago, T and I were looking for flights to Pgh from White Plains. They were about $350. Not bad, but for whatever reason, we waited a few days. When we checked again, the price had jumped to $950! So we decided that we would drive to Pgh and T would buy a one-way ticket from Pgh back home. But, of course, it sucked that the one-way ticket cost $500. Oh well, sunk cost.

But today, Theresa got an e-saver from USAir with specials from White Plains to Pgh...for $138. So can't argue with that. The short of it is that we're now arriving in Pgh Saturday morning @ 7:38a. Theresa'll be leaving the same time, 3:45p, on Monday. I'll be leaving 8:45p Monday.

So we ended up getting to Pgh for half the original price we'd anticipated. With twice the stress. So I guess it all washes out in the end. Seeya Saturday!