Comments on: How To Book an Awesome Travel Itinerary

By: Airport Literature | Taylor Davidson

Airport Literature | Taylor Davidson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:07:29 +0000

[...] his stories from the road; friends Will and Cara Dearman (@wtd and @thinkc) created their own adventure to take advantage of the opportunity; who do you know taking advantage of the All You Can Jet [...]

By: Kerwin

Kerwin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:24:34 +0000

Hiya Seth,

Good post. I checked with JetBlue last night and I was told that you can do SYR-ROC since there is no other way to do it but go back through JFK. ven if you passed through "too many times." They just have to manually do it. I waited on the line while she checked.

Still bummed about the cities served by Cape Air as only JetBlue-operated flights are allowed :-(. This kills my whole MA city (Nantucket, Hyannis, etc.) run.

By: Kerwin

Kerwin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:24:34 +0000

By: Creating the means to match the spirit (How to Plan for Travel) | Taylor Davidson

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:21:15 +0000

[...] Will Dearman, How To Book an Awesome Travel Itinerary [...]

By: Kerwin

Kerwin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:21:34 +0000

O.K., I just booked my pass, you can chcek out my blog post about it at http://cruisinaltitude.blogspot.com/2009/08/all....

Kerwin.

By: abroadening

abroadening — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:16:00 +0000

Wow, what a comprehensive writeup, nice work. However, I think I'm partial to fewer destinations and actually enjoying them for longer periods of time – going to so many places might get exhausting.

By: Seth Miller

Seth Miller — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:53:41 +0000

@eyeballer:
"However, if you fly from JFK to BOS at 10am, have lunch and return to JFK at 6pm. You cannot book another outbound flight from JFK at 9pm. You'd have to wait until the next day."

This is sortof true, but there is a way around it. Book BOS-ZZZ with a JFK connection. It works just fine. You're allowed to connect as long as it is a valid published routing in their system. There are some that don't work, like SYR-ROC, but for "normal" routings it would be just fine.

I've got a couple interesting ones on the drawing board, including BUF-BOS-ROC-BTV-SYR in a single day, assuming I can get the timings to work. You'd have to position in BUF the night before to start off clean, but it should be possible.

By: Kerwin

Kerwin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:35:43 +0000

Hi Will,
Yup, these are primarily departure taxes, on average departure taxes to international destinations are about $35.00 and rising. If you depart the U.K. it is 40 GBP for Economy class and 80 GBP for First/Business class. You don't really realize how much it is until a promotion like this comes along and you have to itemize.

Ryanair in Europe oftentimes have 1 EUR fares and with taxes, it comes to like 25 EUR!

By: Will Dearman

Will Dearman — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:26:20 +0000

The taxes and fees caught me off guard and really add up. They are as follow:

San Jose, Costa Rica $ 77.42
Cancun, Mexico $ 23.11
Bogota, Colombia $ 80.97
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic $138.80
Bermuda $ 94.45
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$ 409.75 per person

By: Kerwin

Kerwin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:44:59 +0000

@Stacy, you can do that as it would just be a connecting flight. eyeballer is correct. It is your third time in the airport that day is forbidden. Not to worry, just find a market/flight that has a redeye which departs just after midnight and you are golden :-). They have a few, but one of them goes away this month. Trying to get a PDF for September as the only one online is for August.

Just looking at the schedule so far, they have some interesting point to point cities that I think will help me achieve my goals.