once it displays the results you should see 2 symbols to the far right
the first shows the fare rules and the second shows the routing rules (its the last symbol you can click on) right after the Adv pur Req Field

She would charge you since the airlines killed commissions and all forms of incentive to agents, but absosmurfly yes.

Hey, anyone that's willing to help me ream UA & DL is worth paying commission to. :D

She's flying home tomorrow and will be back in the office on Monday. I guess I should avoid a TOS problem and say that you should PM for office info.

Thats why you are the top concierge
Where is that pin

Awwwww, thank you sir. The pin is coming this year, worst case beginning of 09. Baccarat_king is supposedly coming to visit me July 4th weekend...now all that remains is for me to get settled in the job and we can put together a Borgata DO.

As ALCO said, anyone who can help exploit UA is well worth the commission. :)

I can see it now, the box may be the first thread to have it's own TA.

Now, can travel agents still use those pesky UA vouchers or do I have to book with UA. Those are almost as good as printing your own money.

The agents at AMEX are all "special" in my experience. I can't count the number of times i've had to tell them there's a cheaper full fare, or refundable fare since they just automatically go to Y.

That and I continue to find bugs in their website that my travel director and I are on an overly friendly basis now.

The only nice thing is, the corp amex site uses the old itn engine which i miss greatly.

Victoria is awesome. But also close by are some great places in Washington that are easy day trips out from Seattle, if you want to make that your base. North Cascades National Park, Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, and the Olympic Peninsula are all worth looking into.

And if you haven't done the Boeing plant tour up in Everett, it's worth it too. I'd suggest buying tickets in advance online if you go in the summer, since they tend to be busy.

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fozz: You have to read the fine print. I know CO's are web-only.

The first (?) CO 738 is on its way across the Atlantic! It's supposedly just a military charter so I don't think we need to worry about CO replacing 752s with 738s. :D

Unfortunately some of us are forced to use them by our employers. And we get to pay for the privilege too. Book a ticket online, $23. Call the travel agency, not the airline to change said ticket, $27 more to the travel agent, plus whatever the airline charges you for the change. Call the travel agent to do something as simple as cancel a hotel or car rental reservation, that's another $27. The big travel agents have evolved and managed to stay quite profitable by no longer marketing to individual consumers who just want to book a family vacation to Orlando at the absolute cheapest fare. Instead they get in with large companies who have a lot of travelers, and become the corporate travel Nazis, charged with enforcing the company's travel policies, and collecting obscene transaction fees for it.

I would do almost anything to not have to use our travel agent, and book my airline tickets on the airline websites. I probably lost over 100,000 miles back when CO was still giving out the online booking bonuses due to having to use the travel agent. And I'm sure I've lost out on thousands of dollars in Travel Club $5 credits as well.

Excellent, thanks for the reminder about Boeing! ^

Do you guys know if Kenmore Air is a good option for going to Victoria?

The Boeing factory tour is great! I can still picture looking down at the 787 - beautiful! It's about 40 minutes north of downtown SEA so allow plenty of time to get up there and back.

I've heard (and read) that Kenmore is the best way to get around that area via a seaplane. I was going to take a ride with them last time I was up there, but the winds were really blowing (35+ MPH) the day I was going to do it, so I decided against it. Kenmore Air at the top of my list for my next trip to SEA. ^

We're staying on Lake Union (Courtyard) so Kenmore is incredibly convenient, but they are about $100 more than Horizon to Victoria. All in is $560 for two. We'll see, but it would definitely be cool as hell.