(FARE GONE) UA/CO: PHL-SAN, PDX, SEA, PHX and LAS - $98 AI each way
#46
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[edit: I belatedly apologize for this off-topic post, sorry all, don't respond!]
#49
Join Date: Oct 2010
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Sorry to post it already charge USD 5/day parking fee on CLD. But still a good parking place with very short walk distance and good security.
#50
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Originally Posted by spojef
What is .bomb?
[BTW, the PHL-SAN fare has been gone for a couple of days, so this is not a "GONE" one, right? Where, or where, is something UA that us ex-WAS types can sink our teeth into, even if at 5 cpm?]
#51
Join Date: Dec 2005
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and cars were consistently cheaper than at SAN, but then SAN is already cheap. The vendor that came out all the time was Enterprise. As a sidepoint, cars in the San Diego area are some of the cheapest in the U.S.
When the SAN/CLD special was on at UA.com, our daughter found it cheaper to fly from PHX to SAN and rent a car to go shopping in Orange County than flying into lax and renting there ( the SAN flight connected in LAX!!!). Air fare and car rental were substantially cheaper.
#53
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Of course, I was just kidding. I really admire the guy who is doing the 7-day back to back SAN-PHL MR as we speak!
#54
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What is this CLD thing? I'm looking at flights to SAN and .bomb keeps serving up a transcon out to LAX and then on to CLD, pairing it with a return from SAN. Maybe I can arrange car rental at one airport, drop at the other, but I'd prefer going into and out of the same city in case something were to go awry, and an airport that has more flight alternatives for that same reason. Is UA channeling traffic to CLD because they have too many empty seats LAX-CLD? CLD-LAX is a different story?
#55
Join Date: Jun 2004
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In reply to itsme, I really doubt UA is deliberately skewing results to fill CLD flights, and I realize you're kidding a little. CLD is probably just being treated as a co-airport with SAN.
Pairing a CLD segment with SAN return *might* actually be nice in the right situation. It's a short taxi or bus ride from CLD to Legoland theme park. It would take about four hours to go from CLD to SAN airport using public transit:
1. NCTD 309 bus north to Oceanside transit center.
2. Either Amtrak or NCTD Coaster train to San Diego downtown "Santa Fe sta"
3. San Diego airport bus outside the station to the SAN airport.
Evenings or weekends would have considerably slower connection times. Late night is impossible. I've done this a number of times, but from my house. I live within 2 miles of CLD airport.
Going to LAX, it's not fun for me to pay UA's discounted fare of $145 rt for CLD-LAX and only get about 86 miles each way because I don't have UA status for the 500-mile minimum.
Sometimes, I can add CLD-LAX segments to a continuing UA trip at not much cost. Not often, especially with me usually flying a certain other airline.
Last edited by Bowgie; Mar 4, 2011 at 9:27 pm
#59
Join Date: Dec 2005
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The fare is history. At this point don't bother looking for dates. But historically speaking there is a good chance it will appear again.
#60
Join Date: Jun 2004
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Is there a special prayer for MRers to say in hopes that a good fare will resurrect, or better yet one will pop up for their own home base (ex-WAS) after a long drought?