linuxgrl

I'm traveling from Charlotte to West Palm Beach for a weekend in October, and I'm trying to find the best way to do it.

We're going down there for a concert on Oct 4, so we need to arrive the morning of Oct 4 and return the evening of Oct. 5.

Delta had the best fare - at $167, but we'd have to fly out of Raleigh, which is a 2.5 hour drive from Charlotte. We looked at all the combinations - CLT, RDU, GSO, CAE, GSP -> MIA, FLL, PBI.

Since we weren't too keen on driving to Raleigh, we figured we'd book award travel on US Airways and see what we came up with. We've both got about 20k miles, enough for the lowest tier ticket. But sadly, the only choice for the return trip was at 5am on Oct 5, which is just too early. We wanted to have at least another half day to explore.

I'm thinking the best choice might be the RDU->PBI for 167 on delta. The only problem with that is the driving and the fact that we have so few miles on Delta. My husband has 0, and I've got 9500.

I'm just looking for ideas at this point. How can I optimize this trip?

Thanks!