Posted: 3/1/2012 1:23:29 PM EDT
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From home, have you flown into one city, driven 8hrs to another in the one-way rental, then flown out of that new city back to casasweetcasa?
What are the economic considerations? How about the practical considerations? |
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First concern is that those will probably have to be ticketed as one-way and be expensive as hell. Second is that if you have any delays on the eight hour drive you might miss your flight home. Ok I figured as much. (I have a two day buffer for the drive) |
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First concern is that those will probably have to be ticketed as one-way and be expensive as hell. Second is that if you have any delays on the eight hour drive you might miss your flight home. My expierience recently with buying tickets for me and the wife is that one way tickets are cheaper than round trip tickets, but it depends on the destinations and originating airport and how far out your booking the flight. To answer the OP's question, I've done it several times and never had an issue. |
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First concern is that those will probably have to be ticketed as one-way and be expensive as hell. Second is that if you have any delays on the eight hour drive you might miss your flight home. Ok I figured as much. (I have a two day buffer for the drive) You can check the pricing on a round trip ticket for both legs and let the "un-needed" segment "go dead". Meaning you only fly the first segment, rent your car (usually with a drop fee) and catch your flight home from the other airport. |
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I have done this a couple of times, starting from KC, then flying to Birmingham, AL, driving to New Orleans, LA, then flying home. I bought discount round-trip airline tickets, and only used one half. It's virtually impossible to do that anymore. Also, I wasn't renting the car in Memphis; it was a company truck that belonged to my client. I also did it once, flying in to Baltimore, and flying back from Norfolk, VA. That was another whole weird deal.
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Did it a couple years ago for interview purposes. IIRC I just bought two one ways. I'm pretty sure you can also set up a segmented flight in much the same way.
As far as economy, I suppose it depends on where you're flying from and where you're flying to. SW, JetBluuuuuuuuuuuue, Spirit, et al charge per segment anyway, so it wouldn't cost you any more than a 'regular' priced round trip. I flew into and out of different regional airports so I had to stick with a Legacy carrier. YMMV |
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Quoted: I've had round trip tickets cost less than one way before, check both ways I used to go back and forth between KC and Minneapolis, and KC and New Orleans. I could buy 28-day advance-purchase RT on Northwest for $119-129 usually, sometimes $89. The best price I ever saw on 1W was $129.  |