Thanks for the tips, I will do so. What you mean, gaobest, is that I won't get an offer so easily at check in or at the airport, I imagine. So I'll try and get a sale deal (would also help to have firm dates in the diary too) by signing up for the alerts. Still not sure about the routing, would be nice to do some more sectors. But in the time frame it will probably be NYC-DAL-SFO(or LAX) and then back on the direct transcon SFO/LAX-NYC. Or something like that. The routing which passes though Dallas on the outbound to the West coast is considerably more in the reverse direction (i.e. LAX-DAL-NYC).