{"id":636,"date":"2007-03-28T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T22:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/03\/28\/not-cheap-airplane-tix\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T17:25:29","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T22:25:29","slug":"not-cheap-airplane-tix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"Not Cheap Airplane Tix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought airplane tix last night.<\/p>\n<p>Newark (EWR) &#8211; Palm Springs (PSP) $365<\/p>\n<p>I kept waiting and waiting for a sale to come around, but the price stayed about the same. And it was virtually the same price to fly into LAX and ONT &#8211; so I figured it was easier to fly into Palm Springs. I miss the days when you used to be able to fly coast-to-coast for $250.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I bought LAX &#8211; BKK. That cost $880. That price never changed either. I think that is the same that I paid when Bella and I went to Bangkok four years ago. (Except that it was only $600 for Bella; international tix for kids are usually only 80% of the adult ticket) Luckily, my mom has offered to pay for the ticket so I could go hang with Sue while she pops the new Lee kid into the world.<\/p>\n<p>I almost had a heart attack last week surfing for airfares. I pulled up a  roundtrip ticket to Bangkok and the ticket price had gone to $2700!! I started scrolling desperately down the page in a complete panic &#8211; only to discover that I had made a typo. Instead of BKK I had typed BBK, which apparently is a airport in Botswana. Boy, going to Africa is expensive.<\/p>\n<p>The way I look for cheap tix is by using the &#8220;Expand Search Options&#8221; function at orbitz.com. I click &#8220;check any airports within 80 miles&#8221; and &#8220;search for tickets one day after and before.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought airplane tix last night. Newark (EWR) &#8211; Palm Springs (PSP) $365 I kept waiting and waiting for a sale to come around, but the price stayed about the same. And it was virtually the same price to fly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=636\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}