One Foot on the Plane

I’ve been searching for plane tickets since 3:30 am Thursday morning. Not nonstop, but it’s been ever-present in my mind. The struggle is finding the right balance of cost and security. I don’t envy travel agents. We have a great one now after I narrowed some stuff down.

I think that online pricing places are great if you have flexible dates and a flexible itinerary. When you have specific dates you have to be somewhere by specific times they aren’t as great. I even had one online place give us an itinerary that consisted of all one way tickets for each leg of the journey. A separate ticket from Nashville to LA, then a ticket from LA to Guangzhou. It was about $2000 cheaper than anything else I had found until a good friend pointed out that if one of those planes were late the entire responsibility of missing a flight would be on us.

So, back to shopping. I think we have something, but Delta’s website was messed up last night so we’ll see how much the tickets go up between now and Monday.

By the way, apparently August is the most expensive month to travel to China. Lucky us!