I’m flying Qantas to NZ at the end of the year. I would LOVE to get some kind of offer to upgrade to business…which was $6000 a person…each way.
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When we were pricing, there was a flight (I think United but not sure) out of Newark (to Barcelona, our destination), but the flight flew into Laguardia! YOU had to get from LGA to EWR, hauling your luggage. Sure, like that was going to happen! I’ll take the tarmac at FRA.
But when I’m King (or even just King of the Airport) I’ll have the bus go from gate to gate, not the 100+ people.
I have a friend who lives in Hilton Head who I visit in the summer. I found a United flight that flies into HHI (rather than Savannah) but it connects through EWR, and it takes 12 hours total from Denver. Sorry friend, there is a non-stop DEN to SAV, and the one into HHI costs twice as much. You’ll have to pick me up in SAV.
I agree EWR is now way down on the list, although DEN lost communications with flights for 90 seconds today.
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I was looking at flights to London on American and noticed that some had connections like that. I was so puzzled that I googled it and omg yes, they actually expect you to get yourself from one airport to another in order to make a connection!
It’s just unbelievable they would even offer it in a way that inexperienced travelers could select without noticing the connecting flight was literally at a different airport.
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Well, we flew in regular economy seats, HNL to SFO. We figured it would be OK but it was so squishy we couldn’t find H’s phone for the 2nd 1/2 of the flight. He kept looking for it but we couldn’t more much because it was just so dang crowded in coach. Next time, we are putting our backpacks above us and have more room for our feet/legs.
Can’t complain too much as our flights and several nights of hotel are being paid for, as is my time attending and speaking at conference I wanted to attend anyway! I COULD pay miles or cash to upgrade but I’m to dang frugal and honestly it didn’t look much better.
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Yeah, I would never have caught that - I’m obsessed with looking at connection times, not another airport!
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But the problem is now that everyone brings the hard suitcases on board, they usually won’t let you put backpacks up there. We always have to have ours under our seats now. And with a 35-36” inseam, yes it is squishy. But economy plus is a luxury for hs that we can only splurge on every now and then, so we just deal with it. I do try now to get aisle seats for us
From looking at flights, changing airports seems to be an American airline thing. Maybe other lines do it but I found it on AA.
Fly into LGA leave out of JFK, maybe the other way around.
Crazy to do that imo
I looked at my flights this morning. The connection through EWR is lowest, my flight has doubled. The Delta flight connecting in AMS was almost 3 times the cost now.
I’m only looking at premium economy, not sure how economy looks
This is topical
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Ykes! I asked for Delta if possible but Viking did the KLM/Lufthansas for direct flights except coming home out of Prague to Frankfurt then direct to Atlanta. We are flying premium as well but I didn’t go back and check prices on Delta since I figured Viking probably has a deal for the lowest fares with those 2 airlines.
The official policy is that the “personal” item (like my purse) has to fit under the seat in front of you. The carry-on item should go in the bins. I think they are trying to stop people from putting their second bag in the bin. Most likely assuming your backpack or duffle was in addition to your hard case wheeled carryon.
Note the dimensions for the personal item are much smaller.
The last flight I took had redesigned bins. Wheeled carryons fit in perfectly - placed upright wheels in first side by side in the bins.
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No. I’ve been on plenty of flights where they make us put our backpacks under the seat even though that is our only item. They don’t have enough space for the suitcases so they get priority. More often than not in the last 5 years, this has been the case
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@ClassicMom98 's experience mirrors mine. More planes have the resdeisned bigger bins and that helps a ton. But if you have just a backpack or tote, under the seat in front of you!
DS is very tall and has taken to paying for upgrades to get free checked bags and legroom. He is generally thrifty (to a fault often - don’tget me started on the lost and found wardrobe items!) but sees value in this, which I find fascinating as someone who searches for low fares.
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Wow, maybe my daughter and I have just been lucky in our flight experiences with a backpack or duffle.
Must be. I’ve had enough flights where the workers say “only hard cases in the overhead” and they will start pulling out anything that isn’t and start handing it to their owners to store under the seat.
Thankfully that hasn’t happened to me I usually already have some sort of tote under my seat but my carry-on is always a backpack. I can usually stuff it around other peoples hard cases.
Only hard cases? The bins will be half empty then on any Alaska flight I’ve flown recently. Half of the pax travel with backpacks and small purses/laptop bags as their two items. Or one backpack, like my husband and many other dudes.
As a funny aside, when we flew in Spain they didn’t allow anything under the seat if you’re in exit row. I found it amusing when they asked me to move my backpack to the overhead, which is the opposite of how US airlines operate.
On my next flight, wondering if that was just off a one-off thing, I asked the attendant as I was boarding if my backpack was ok to go under the seat if I was in an exit row and they said yes. So of course later another flight attendant came by and made me move it to the overhead!
Oddly on that same flight the guy in the aisle seat replied “no” when asked if was “willing and able to assist in an emergency”. First time I’ve ever seen that. He moved willingly though.
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I know we’ve talked about cubes, before but I’m not sure where.
I currently have some made by Eagle Creek and some “no name” ones. REI has some 30% off right now, so I just got some, to refresh some that aren’t looking so good. (NOTE - the Eagle Creek ones have lasted for many years).
Does anyone have a strong opinion on compression vs not for cubes?
I see compression sets on Amazon, and I’m wondering if I should get them instead of what I paid a fair amount for at REI.
Thoughts?
I have no experience with these myself but saw someone use them recently on Instagram for a trip and they looked pretty efficient.
Vacuum bags
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I bought a pair of compression packing cubes from tj maxx. I wasn’t impressed. Too hard to compress.
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