flinhion757 From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 229 posts, RR: 0 Posted (2 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 1419 times:
I see it in the chat room, people are just planning these 'little' trips like thousands of miles away to go spot with friends or something, and I wonder, how you can just do that because it can be expensive to do that, especially only a week or 2 in advance. In conclusion, for you people who will spontaneously go halfway across the world to go spot for 2 days, how do you do it? Any additional information would be much appreciated
KingFriday013 From United States of America, joined exactly 6 years ago today! , 1277 posts, RR: 11 Reply 3, posted (2 years 11 months 2 weeks 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 1230 times:
A good number of the people you see in the chat room actually work for airlines, or travel for business very often. Right now almost half of the people in there are airline employees, so they non-rev (in other words, they can sometimes only plan a few days in advance and it costs them very little to nothing to go).
PlymSpotter From Spain, joined Jun 2004, 11108 posts, RR: 63 Reply 4, posted (2 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 14 hours ago) and read 1107 times:
There is also the possibility that people are making it up. I wish no disrespect to anyone, but it happens on here as it does everywhere. On the whole as others say, it's non revving which enables people to travel so frequently at short notice.
BMI727 From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 14310 posts, RR: 26 Reply 5, posted (2 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1092 times:
Quoting rcaq (Reply 2): ...or simply got enough spending power and/or miles to do so.
And of course there are the mileage junkies that will snap up a cheap fare to snag some FF miles. I would wager that there are a few such people here.
Why do Aerospace Engineering students have to turn things in on time?