" If you miss the PDX flight by just a little, you might still squeak in the trip via a connection. " Sorry I'm not quite following what you mean? i thought their wasn't many flights from IAD-PDX, and surely i would be better staying in IAD rather then heading to san fransico? i assume that flight wouldn't be covered by the airline? if it was. how would that work with my getting a flightt to PDX? would they cover it from San Francisco rather then IAD? Sorry for all the questions, I'm trying to have All my options planned long before i go because if/when i miss the flight, i want to know what i'm doing and what i'm going to say to the airline
Appreicate peoples comments so far they are prooving to be very useful to me.