Originally Posted by Jet2K
My wife is short of 1K by 392 miles, and instead of spending $200 for the double EQM, we were thinking of doing a MR on New Year's eve.
We have been toying with the idea of flying a 500 mile hop before midnight to get her over the hump for 1K, and the rest of the MR departing right after midnight in order to count toward next year's EQM.
Perhaps something along the lines of:
SFO-LAX late in the evening of 12/31
LAX-xyz just after midnight early in the morning of 1/1
return perhaps on 1/1 or thereabouts
Or we could originate in Sacramento
SMF-SFO late in the evening of 12/31
SFO-xyz just after midnight early in the morning of 1/1
return perhaps on 1/1 or thereabouts
However, I have not been able to find any departures from LAX or SFO that leaves after midnight to make this work.
Short of going to the airport in the evening and look at the departure board, is there a way to search for flights leaving from a particular airport after a certain time? My eyes are popping from the sockets from reading the PDF schedule to no avail.
The only early am dep I have seen on UA is out of ANC-12:50 AM to SEA. You could fly out of SMF or SFO; there would be one or 2 equip changes depending on your origin as you will stop in Seattle going up and back; I think it arrives in ANC around 11:45PM, chances are it's the same plane going back. When I did a dummy res it left SMF around 2PM 12-31 to SFO,then SEAQ before getting to ANC and then reverse on Jan 1st. The price was obscene=$809. You would be better off taking late nite into LAX then transcon to east coast or Midcon to Chicago and back and book it so there would be a forced overnite in LA to catch 1st flight out in morning. I'm not sure I understand from the OP's content= if you paid the $200 would she lock in the 1k status w/out any more flights?. If that would be the case, I would do that. Or fly down to LAX Sat nite and have a great nite on the town and come back on the 1st, as was suggested.