Ah the joys of flying.......
Has anyone ever flown American Airlines?
All I know is that they are an alliance partner of our national carrier
Qantas.
Curt Raymond wrote:
Other than the price I hate Southwest mostly because I HATE the cattle call...
One time the last seat on the plane was between a married couple. I inquired if perhaps
they'd like to sit together rather than having me in between and noted that I didn't mind
sitting by the window or the aisle I got "We'll sit where we are thank you!" so
I plopped in the middle. They then decided they'd have a conversation *around* me... I
quickly (and loudly) told them there was no friggin way I was going to allow that.
They sulked the entire flight, I watched M*A*S*H on my Zune and laughed
loudly...
I prefer Jet Blue but that said I never had to be stuck in one of their flights
for hours... They don't fly LAX but they do go to Long Beach which is just
south. The Long Beach airport is not far from the home of West Coast Choppers
should you have such a mind.
-Curt
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:22:06 -0700
From: Craig McCluskey <diese...@pisquared.net>
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hendrik and Co coming to the US of A in June
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On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:01:26 -0600 Hans Neureiter <diese...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Rates are ~ $ 15 a day.
$15 a day?! I see you haven't rented for a while.
I went on the Budget Car Rental site (http://www.budget.com) and found
that going to the rental office at the Los Angeles airport (the other LA),
renting a standard- or full-size car, picking it up on 5 June and
returning on 15 June, will be $311.41 for an Aussie (it will be $244.14
for a US resident
-- they do record your driver's license information). So that's $31/day.
Plus gasoline costs. That is down from what it was a few years ago (which
was $60 - 70/day).
You could combine air travel for long distance and rent wheels locally
(LA to Chicago = ~ 2000 miles or +30 hrs driving).
Now that's a good suggestion. I prefer travelling Southwest Airlines
(http://www.southwest.com) when possible. The airports from/to which they
fly are listed at
http://travel.southwest.com/travel/exploreTravel.html?tabType=routeMapā«=GSUBNAV-AIR-ROUTEMAP
,
and includes Los Angeles, Chicago Midway, Milwaukee, La Guardia and Las
Vegas.
Craig
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