Airline Ticket Question

altmom
Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:52:28 +0000

Regarding flights home after finals - I learned the hard way not to book them too early. It’s a tradeoff between locking in a cheap fare now and finding out in early December that several posted final exam dates were not used and papers were assigned instead - or final exams were given the last week of classes. That left an unhappy kid who wanted to get home already (days before the ticket I had booked). So I ended up paying change fees. Midweek fares in mid-December have generally been relatively low and farely consistent in the past.

Now I end up nagging my S periodically during the semester to ask his professors what their plans are for the finals.