So we’re trying to get to Phoenix to see some family. Unfortunately we chose the week of the worst storm of the season to go. Great timing, right? Our preferred routing was naturally SFO-PHX. When we checked the loads there were 30-50 seats available on each flight all day. Well, then 2 other airlines decided to cancel most of their flights, leaving the one carrier that was flying between the two horribly oversold. Well, there went the direct option, now its time to do what us non-revers do best: become creative.
We could have gone home, tried again tomorrow, but where’s the fun in that? Time to go online and figure out how to reroute ourselves. Luckily we hadn’t gone anywhere yet, and were still at an airport our airline flies to. As I will explain in a future post, when you are non-reving on your own airline, you have a higher priority than when you are flying on other airlines. So the options we were considering were SFO-somewhere-PHX, with those somewheres being LAX, LAS, or SAN. We called on of the airlines to list for a flight, when we were informed that all of their LAX-PHX flights had been cancelled. Well, there goes another option. All the flights from SFO-LAS were really delayed, so we would miss most of the PHX flights, or just get into PHX really late.
We soon realize there’s next to no chance of us getting to PHX, which is when we get really creative. We ask ourselves, “Who lives near airports that have flights that are A) at a reasonable hour; B) have open seats, and C) would let us stay with them. In this situation, the answer to that question is my Parents. And to make things even better, they were going to be meeting up with us in Phoenix.
So now we are sitting at my parents house in LA after flying down to LAX and spending the night here. It looks good for the flight today (although that’s what we said yesterday…) and the weather is much improved. Will update with our status as we go along.
