Saturday, September 13

those 3 little words: Travel Is Glamorous

I spotted a series of links from TravelSmith (yes, their paper catalog) that could be useful: Travel Center and Unique Journeys.

when seeking the best airfares, sometimes you can find better fares by using multisearch which looks for nearby alternate cities .. not just a single airport. there are apparently only 7 metropoltian areas in the world that work this way:

CHI Chicago (ORD, MDW & CGX)
LON London (LHR & LGW)
NYC New York (JFK, LGA & EWR)
PAR Paris (CDG & ORY)
QDF Dallas (DFW & DAL)
QHO Houston (IAH & HOU)
WAS Washington (IAD & DCA) .. what about BWI (Baltimore)?

so .. QDF-LON would search for DFW and DAL flights to LGW (Gatwick) and LHR (Heathrow). Granted, you won't find any flights from DAL (Dallas Love Field) to LHR (due to the wonderfully antiquated Wright Amendment), but that's a topic for a future blog entry.

No clue why the Los Angeles basin doesn't have a multisearch code for it's 5 airports (LAX/BUR/LGB/SNA/ONT); San Francisco doesn't have one for SFO/SJC/OAK; and Miami doesn't have one for MIA/FLL/PBI; I guess this just makes too much sense.