Baseball Opening Day DINGs
Apr 1, 2007, 12:33 pm
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Baseball Opening Day DINGs
I get DINGs for MCI and STL. My DING box had a black message; momentary pause to think I'd won a prize, but it said "Happy Opening Day St. Louis!" I had a short list out of MCI, but a long one for STL, mostly not that special but there was $29 STL-BUF and $29-54 STL-MCO. Today's just opening day for the Cardinals and Mets, so for places with Opening Day games on Monday or Tuesday, you might see if you get special DINGs. No fooling.
Apr 2, 2007, 3:58 pm
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Apr 5, 2007, 8:58 pm
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By my calculation, we should see some opening day DINGS on Friday 4/6/07 for DAL, CLE, TPA, and maybe FLL (if the Florida Marlins count). No such luck for ATL, maybe AirTran should run a special 
Apr 6, 2007, 9:23 am
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I snagged PHL-MDW for $29 each way on monday. A far cry from the $113 each way that was available on sunday. The total for 3 tickets with tax was $236. That's less than what 1 "regular" priced R/T would cost.
Apr 6, 2007, 1:42 pm
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Maybe PHL-MDW will be lower again on Cubs opening day, 4/9/07. I'll also be looking for opening day specials that day for LAX, PHX, BWI and PIT.
Apr 6, 2007, 5:25 pm
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Very possible. I couldn't believe the price was that low. Unfortunatly, all the money I saved will be going towards tickets for a cubs vs phillies game over father's day weekend. I'll have to use stubhub to get tickets because I can't get 3 seats together directly from the cubs for any game.
Apr 9, 2007, 9:14 am
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The Opening Day Dings were outstanding. Valid through July!
I booked our next MCI-MCO outbound segment ($49) on Royals opening day, Monday, and bought the return segment ($55) on Devil Rays opening day, Friday. I thought I was at least a month away from seeing July Dings.
There were a bunch of other good opening day Dings - a long list of cities at very Dingworthy fares - but nothing else I could take advantage of at this time.
I booked our next MCI-MCO outbound segment ($49) on Royals opening day, Monday, and bought the return segment ($55) on Devil Rays opening day, Friday. I thought I was at least a month away from seeing July Dings.
There were a bunch of other good opening day Dings - a long list of cities at very Dingworthy fares - but nothing else I could take advantage of at this time.
Apr 9, 2007, 2:50 pm
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The Opening Day Dings were outstanding. Valid through July!
I booked our next MCI-MCO outbound segment ($49) on Royals opening day, Monday, and bought the return segment ($55) on Devil Rays opening day, Friday. I thought I was at least a month away from seeing July Dings.
There were a bunch of other good opening day Dings - a long list of cities at very Dingworthy fares - but nothing else I could take advantage of at this time.
I booked our next MCI-MCO outbound segment ($49) on Royals opening day, Monday, and bought the return segment ($55) on Devil Rays opening day, Friday. I thought I was at least a month away from seeing July Dings.
There were a bunch of other good opening day Dings - a long list of cities at very Dingworthy fares - but nothing else I could take advantage of at this time.
Unfortunately I didn't get any $49 dings, would have loved that MCI-MCO! But I was able to move my return flight from MCO-MCI from the 11:55 a.m. departure to the 4:30 one so I was very, very happy about that thanks to the baseball promotion. Only time I've seen since Feb. 8 a price below $165 for that nonstop afternoon/evening flight. I was tres happy!