Originally Posted by
PbodyPhoto
I work in the media and while I didn't personally cover the parkland shooting a lot of my friends in the industry did and they know I'm good at finding flights and trust me to book things for them.
I booked about a dozen flights from New York to Florida on the day of the shooting. All obviously last minute and all out of various NY airports in to FLL or MIA nonstop on multiple different airlines.
There was a ton of availability and all of it was under $500, I even got one ticket for under $75!
Dont buy buy her story for a second!
Airlines frequently overbook flights knowing that someone would pay $1000 last minute and someone else would gladly take $200 to fly later