Originally Posted by
chicago747
Being the Friday before xmas I think saver inventory will be tough to come by. My folks live in Tampa and I flew ORD-TPA the Friday before. I set an EF alerts and it became available in early February during a schedule change when they open the award floodgates for about 4 hours. Unless you catch one of those releases I think it will be tough....especially since there is no non-stop. I had set another Ef alert for my flight for my brother and it never opened up the rest of the year.
Is flying into MCO an option? AS has 6 seats available for 12.5k on the non-stop LAX-MCO on 12/21. I can't imagine a one way car rental would be too bad. It departs at 11am so might be too early depending on cruise disembarkation. But if not it's a decent option.
That is a possibility. It is an easy run from MCO to Tampa. The 11:00 might work since I think LAX is about a half an hour from the port, and we have unlimited luggage which the cruise line will ship, leaving only carryon's for us. Thanks for the suggestion.
BTW, do we have to book AS through AA or can we do it directly with AS with miles?