Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
It's 10AM PDT and I just tried to book an award for tonight. It looks like it's letting me do it, so I'd say you can wait until tomorrow morning. Of course, you'll need to pay the $75 in-close booking fee (which beats the $318.30 fare).
Even with the $75 booking fee this trip still makes sense, for a couple of reasons-
#1: Probably my final flight of the year, and I'm 2300 miles short of the next set of 500 milers. An SFO-LAS trip won't make any difference there.
#2: I've got two kids each with 17k miles in their accounts, set to expire on 12/31/2007.
(And it's not as if I haven't taken them on trips using my miles in the past, including several upgrades, so robbing from "their" accounts doesn't particularly trouble me, y'know?
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This will be an interesting trip. I hate Las Vegas, so I've put everything off until the last minute. Denial, pretending maybe I don't have to go. But I do. So tomorrow morning I'll do Priceline for a hotel and United for the award tix and if something goes wrong... gee, guess I don't go!
