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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Opushomes and tvl4free, a great big THANKS for your help. I ended up booking PVD PDX on Dec 18 for $190, leaves 6 am, back at 11 pm. It will be tight at PDX (just over 1 1/2 hours on ground) but I am hoping the same plane just turns around from PDX and returns to DTW. Otherwise I will have to accept whatever I can get and that may be a mistake, but we live and learn.
I had tried this itinerary on other dates via dream maps, but it kept showing sold out so I din't bother going to nwa.com to look. With opushomes advice about the early December availability, I just had to look around nwa.com a little deeper and reschedule one work day. Of course, I will be a zombie on Wednesday, but I think I can muddle through.
Again Thank you and tv4free you are right, opushomes had given a bud a great Christmas gift. Thanks for your help.