Buddy Passes?

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mshunter

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Have an interview on April 4th in Oregon. Tickets are +$600 right now. And I am just about flat broke. Someone throw me a bone?

I need to get from LAX/BUR to North Bend.
 
Can't help you out....other than to say, if you absolutely have to be there.....Buy the ticket!!! Buddy passes are just a step above pure evil these days. Regardless of what you decide to do, best of luck!
 
Cruise said:
Can't help you out....other than to say, if you absolutely have to be there.....Buy the ticket!!! Buddy passes are just a step above pure evil these days. Regardless of what you decide to do, best of luck!
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+1, see the sig.
 
Cruise said:
Can't help you out....other than to say, if you absolutely have to be there.....Buy the ticket!!! Buddy passes are just a step above pure evil these days. Regardless of what you decide to do, best of luck!
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Want to loan me the $615 to get there then? I would if I had the money right now, or I wouldn't be asking for the help. I've done the buddy pass thing in the past and it sucks. But I have no choice here. Either don't go, or take the chance. I'm a single father times two on a flight instructors pay living in SoCal. My kids eat decent, but I usually eat Ramen.
 
Cruise said:
Can't help you out....other than to say, if you absolutely have to be there.....Buy the ticket!!! Buddy passes are just a step above pure evil these days. Regardless of what you decide to do, best of luck!
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Yeah, getting on an airplane at an S-4 (Delta friends/family travel) priority is nearly impossible out of LAX most days. My buddy passes don't activate for another few months, otherwise I'd be willing to cut one, but just as has been stated: if you have to be there (as in failing to be there will be a career- or life-modifying event), buy a ticket.

Southwest is quoting as low as $110 with a one-day stay out of Burbank (edit: to PDX not OTH, which doesn't really solve your problem, but at least puts you in the same state), incidentally (non-full-fare, so no changes unless you want to pay for an upgrade to full fare, but still). I'm willing to bet they'll be even cheaper out of LAX.

Also, OTH is Brasilia country. With the sort of load factors and payload that we pull on that route out of SFO, you're not getting on.
 
If it's a good enough job, I might rob a school bus for the money. But man, buddy passes for a job interview is about like walking to a casino roulette table, taking your last $100 and putting $50 on the black and $50 on the red. AT BEST, you'll be ok. But there is always that "0" and "00" floating around.
 
I've got 15,000 delta sky miles if you want them. That and a dollar would buy you a cup of coffee. How about a train?
 
I've got about 2500 miles from when I was doing NEXTGEN evaluations for NASA a few years ago, but that might get you a jaded stare from a JFK gate agent.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
North Bend is regional country. The only way in or out by air, short of bringing your own airplane, is a Brasilia or a Pilatus.
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Let me preface this with: I'm lazy.

Is there a larger airport to fly into and potentially rent a car to drive to North Bend?
 
Autothrust Blue said:
North Bend is regional country. The only way in or out by air, short of bringing your own airplane, is a Brasilia or a Pilatus.
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I just searched LAX-EUG using ITA's software. If you go from April 3rd to April 10th (You can vary that to be different) I found air fare for $322 TOTAL on Alaska Air LAX-SEA-EUG, EUG-SEA-LAX.

From EUG rent a car or find a ride down to North Bend. It's only a two hour drive. I bet you can easily get under $600 in travel costs if you do it that way...
 
JustinS said:
I just searched LAX-EUG using ITA's software. If you go from April 3rd to April 10th (You can vary that to be different) I found air fare for $322 TOTAL on Alaska Air LAX-SEA-EUG, EUG-SEA-LAX.

From EUG rent a car or find a ride down to North Bend. It's only a two hour drive. I bet you can easily get under $600 in travel costs if you do it that way...
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You beat me to it. It's only about three hours driving from PDX too, if Google is to be believed, but at that point you're probably better off sucking it up and buying a ticket on UAX.
 
JustinS said:
I just searched LAX-EUG using ITA's software. If you go from April 3rd to April 10th (You can vary that to be different) I found air fare for $322 TOTAL on Alaska Air LAX-SEA-EUG, EUG-SEA-LAX.

From EUG rent a car or find a ride down to North Bend. It's only a two hour drive. I bet you can easily get under $600 in travel costs if you do it that way...
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I'll bet you a dill pickle that a buddy pass through the DL system would be AT LEAST that much.

They used to be great, but they've been a rip for years.

So at that point, is the job worth a $300 risk to be sure you get there.
 
Derg said:
I'll bet you a dill pickle that a buddy pass through the DL system would be AT LEAST that much.

They used to be great, but they've been a rip for years.

So at that point, is the job worth a $300 risk to be sure you get there.
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Some of it is on a Connection carrier too (which puts Dergh Tylor's passes below my grandma's best friend's boarding priority), and you have to go to SLC first.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
You beat me to it. It's only about three hours driving from PDX too, if Google is to be believed, but at that point you're probably better off sucking it up and buying a ticket on UAX.
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I've had friends offer me buddy passes to get between Austin and the Bay Area. However, I find time and time again why screw myself with a buddy pass when I can pay $250-$300 round trip. For this summer, I bought a ticket to fly out to the bay area for $120 on Southwest Airlines. It doesn't get any cheaper than that... the AUS-SFO/SJC market hasn't budged from $250-$300 round trip in over 10 years... And people wonder why the airlines have a hard time making a profit... Sorry that was an off topic rant...

Basically... Buying a confirmed ticket is worth it. Surely you must have a friend or somebody who can help you out with a couple hundred dollars in a tough spot??
 
Thanks for all the help guys. But with the way it looks, I'm either going to have to take to much time off of work to make it affordable, or end up spending money I just don't have to get up there for the interview. Either way you slice that, it just doesn't compute. The job doesn't pay well enough for me to go through all the trouble of possibly getting it. The cost/benefit just doesn't work. I don't want to risk what sounds like impossible loads and commit to an interview that I probably won't make, and risk loosing what I already have down here in SoCal because I took so much time off.

Thanks JC. I see everyone trying and I am super appreciative.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Some of it is on a Connection carrier too (which puts Dergh Tylor's passes below my grandma's best friend's boarding priority), and you have to go to SLC first.
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Yeah, I'm BMOSL (big man on standby list) as a late 90's hire on mainline, but when I saunter down to the Skywest terminal in SLC, I've got all the pull of a drunken quadriplegic leper.
 
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