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Game Theory

Wednesday November 21, 2001

The airlines need to play an especially ruthless game of chicken with their customers since a seat on Flight 3206 from Miami to Chicago, unlike a washing machine, becomes worthless if it isn’t sold in time. So as every flight gets nearer, the airline is willing to accept less and less at the very time [...]

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United Airlines Customer Service

Saturday October 13, 2001

Can we just talk for a second about how much I hate United Airlines? I would really like to buy a ticket from them. And I want to do it right now. They send me personalized eMails with special discount rates because I’m a “Mileage Plus” member. But y’know what? I can’t. Do you know [...]

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Cheap Flights

Wednesday October 10, 2001

Orbitz is having a Fall Getaway Sale with fares from $68-$178 r/t. There have been all kinds of great deals lately on airfare, but this is definitely the time to be buying tickets …

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Fare Wars

Thursday August 9, 2001

Yesterday Leia told us that American Airlines had a big 24-Hour sale at Yahoo!Travel. Starting today Northwest Airlines is having a 48-Hour sale at Orbitz. Maybe on Saturday Delta will have a 72-hour sale at Priceline.com. Or something.

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Paris Easy

Thursday March 15, 2001

A few weeks ago, 143 consumers bought round-trip tickets to Paris for $25 from United Airlines during a 55-minute window on the company’s Web site. [link via the mini-wetlog]

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Airline Strike

Friday December 22, 2000

My boss was concerned that my flight might be cancelled because of an airline pilot strike in Atlanta (or something like that). I used the handy Delta Air Lines flight-lookup thingamajiggy and was told that flight 1886 is a-ok. And I learned that I’ll be on a Lockheed TriStar L1011-1. My boss, who is also [...]

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Expedia.com

Friday December 22, 2000

Those hep cats at Expedia.com have a cool little tool you can use to track all your frequent flyer miles in one place. Quelle nifty.

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