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Originally posted by docetboy
And just so y'all can get another laugh, I'm flying San Antonio-Raleigh via Houston; and Raleigh-San Antonio via Newark....
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Heh. At a company I used to work for, I had to fly from Boston to Newark on a weekly basis to go to a client site in Secaucus. On one occasion, I called the travel office and told them I needed to fly BOS-EWR on Continental. They told me they could get me on a cheaper flight - the US Air shuttle into LGA. (US Air was the company's preferred airline.) I had to explain in very little words that between LGA and Secaucus there's a little thing called
Manhattan. I would have saved a few bucks on the airfare only to burn it on car fare.
But, my husband's company's travel office is far worse. The travel office's mandate is, book the cheapest airfare, regardless of other expenses. A couple of weeks ago, he had to go down to DC for a two-day meeting. The logical itinerary: Take a morning shuttle from LGA-DCA, have the meeting, stay overnight somewhere in DC or VA, and fly back on the shuttle the next day. The actual itinerary: Stay in some fleabag motel near JFK (complete with hookers
), fly JFK-IAD (!) on a 6am (!) flight, take a taxi to DC, have the meeting, stay overnight somewhere in NOVA, take a taxi back to DC for day 2, then go back to IAD and fly back to JFK. So, two nights' hotel stay and several large taxi fares, all because the early-morning JFK-IAD flight was just slightly cheaper than the LGA-DCA shuttle.