[FARE GONE] DL: MSP-EAT (Wenatchee, WA) as low as ~$142ai
Nov 16, 2014, 5:06 pm
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Nov 16, 2014, 9:46 pm
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You can also use 4.5K BA miles, one way for SEA-EAT. If any of you are driving to or from Seattle in the summer, I suggest WA Hwy 20, beautiful lake and mountain scenery. Excellent deal.
Nov 16, 2014, 10:17 pm
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Leave MSP on 1/12 and return on 1/14 is still available.
I actually booked this for 2/15 as a one way ($73) and will just get off the plane in SEA and return on 2/18. I booked a one way ticket from SEA >> MSP for $163. Not as good a deal, but still worth it to check out Seattle for a few days since I've never been there.
Nov 17, 2014, 9:05 am
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So I was having problems getting my seats to stay at the exit row ... Delta could not get anything switched so I called Alaska Air. Turns out the agent I talked with was at the EAT location and I found out that the airport does close over night and no one can stay there.
Nov 17, 2014, 11:40 am
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Nov 17, 2014, 1:25 pm
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Nov 17, 2014, 2:07 pm
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Nov 17, 2014, 8:02 pm
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Nov 18, 2014, 4:16 am
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Nov 19, 2014, 7:38 am
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I've never seen someone so aggressive and also so universally disliked in this community. Yes, you continually stealing from FT does kill deals faster and might discourage Coke and Taco from posting great deals.
Nov 19, 2014, 8:12 am
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Wenatchee is 98 air miles from Seattle--so usually a flight time of 23-27 minutes, and by car is 150-170 miles from SEA depending on which route you take. Be sure that if you're attempting a drive between these two points in the winter, it'll be a good idea to have chains in your rental car. You'll have to cross one or two mountain passes depending on the route you select.
The greater Wenatchee area has a population of 60,000 so not exactly a small town, but not huge either. SEA-EAT is not an EAS market. Horizon used to have as many as 5 flights a day into and out of EAT to SEA, but with the Dash 8-200's being replaced by Q400s, there are now only 3 or 4 depending on the time of year. Many of the areas residents will pay the extra to fly in and out of EAT because of the distance to SEA, and the fact that parking at EAT is dirt cheap. Once one figures the time/gas/parking and possible hotel to fly in or out of SEA or GEG, it is a wash.
Wenatchee is located along the Columbia River and prides itself as "The Apple Capital of the World", and the Wenatchee World, the local newspaper in its mast adds to that, "and buckle of the power belt of the Pacific Northwest" There are two large hydroelectric dams within 15 miles each direction of the city.
Wenatchee is a very conservative city--quite possibly the most conservative in the state, none of this Puget Sound/Seattle based liberal stuff
I did 18 years there, and in my opinion, the best view of Wenatchee is in the rear view mirror of my car. But that's just me. Some of my high school classmates can't imagine living anywhere else, so it works for them.I'm a non-skier, so I can't comment on the quality of the skiing at Mission Ridge. Friends who have skied there, said that its decent and can be cheaper than some of the larger ski areas in the state.
(please note that I am not employed or endorsed by the Wenatchee Visitors and Convention Bureau...not that they would endorse anything I'd say.
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