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Greetings, I mean Cheers! After this newsletter we will be
up to date.
I left you last week chilling in the car with my Dad and brother
watching Scarface on the way to New England. Connecticut
was cool, literally but I only spent a day there. The highlight
was taking my cousin
Nicky D
out to lunch for his birthday, then I went into NYC, which was
happening as usual. I went out with my cousin AJ and his
fiancee, Jamie. Since she is working on Broadway, I asked her
to tell me a good restaurant to go to, before or after the theater.
She took me to Angus McIndoe. It's located
next to the Producer's theater on 258 West 44th
St. The food was very good and at the time we went, which at 10:30 PM,
many of the actors from the other shows were
there having a bite..
The next day, my Dad was in
the city for an appointment and he insisted on taking
me to JFK Airport. My flight was at 5:20pm and I thought
I was leaving early at 3:00. Well, I was wrong. I'm
not exaggerating.... It literally and physically took two hours to
get from the Upper East Side to JFK. TWO HOURS (2) hours can you
believe that? Needless to say I missed my flight. But
hey, it worked to my advantage because the next flight at 6:15pm was
wide open and they upgraded me to First Class! You have to
love being served soup at 35,000 feet up.
I made it back just in time for our annual Loyola Marymount University Alumni Lacrosse game . Surprisingly, the out of shape old guys beat the young bucks by one goal. Yes, we still do have it, but unfortunately I can feel it's slipping away and I don't remember it being so hard to get out of bed the day after.
It was Halloween (yes, I realize it was 2 weeks ago, but last week's newsletter was too long to add this). Amber had her sister, Erica and her niece, Chloe were in town and we took Chloe into Manhattan Beach for her first trick or treating (the stores downtown were having a safe trick or treat). It's always a joy to see all the little kids dressed in their costumes.... How it brings back so many fond memories.
Later that night Amber and I went to another great halloween party.
This time at our friend
Gerrit's house
in the Hollywood Hills. We weren't supposed to be in
town, so we had to throw a costume together last minute. I
know, no excuses, but after going to Gerrit's and seeing him and most
of his friends in these unbelievable costumes I had to come up with
something. These guys got these costumes and props from a friend
who works at major movie studio in Hollywoood. It was almost
not fair to see everyone so decked out. We walked into his backyard
to find all these tall palm trees around the pool, with a
fake cemetery
next to it that was oozing dry ice. Nice touch!
Amber Airplane
looked great in her last-minute throw-together-playboy-bunny,
but me? I looked more like a gay cowboy. Our friend Joe
Lewis came with us and I'm still not sure who he was supposed
to be. But, hey,
we all had a great time
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The last two week's I've spent in Southern California.... Working hard on Johnny Jet, and trying to get back into shape after mauling everyone's halloween candy. I really have no control when it comes to chocolate. I think I need HELP! The weather in LA was unbelievable the past few days. 83 degrees, beaches empty, and the ocean glassy with some nice size waves rolling in. It was hard to leave, but hey once I got to LAX I was ready to rock and roll. We made it here to to chilly and rainy London just in time for the Fireman's Strike . That's right the Fireman's strike! Unbelievable. Click here for more news about the strike that is interrupting the Tube and possibly with flights to and from Heathrow airport.
Next week, I will tell you all about our trip to England.
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Open-Jaw and Circle Fares
>From The Independent Traveler
When is a roundtrip not a roundtrip? When it's a circle or open-jawed
itinerary.
Most travelers know that roundtrip flights almost
always offer savings over the sum cost of two one-ways on the
same route. And most roundtrips go from Point A to Point B and
back again. What if you need to do some traveling at your destination,
and it's more convenient to fly home from a different airport? Enter
the open-jaw itinerary.
Or how about if you need to hit two or more cities
in a short span of time, and want to do it in a single trip? Try
a circle itinerary.
Defining the Terms: Stopovers vs. Connections
First, a quick jargon review. In all cases with
open jaw and circle itineraries, we are talking about stopovers,
and not connections. The term connection is used when you arrive
at an airport, and depart from the same airport on the next available
flight, or within four hours of arriving. A stopover is when you don't
leave on the next flight, or spend more than four hours in that city.
A connection usually doesn't cost you anything extra, a stopover does.
Note that if there is no connecting flight available,
you may stay in the city for more than four hours without the
corresponding stopover cost.
The point here is that you need to do business
or visit folks at each city on your itinerary, and want to stay
several hours or even days to do so.
The Open Jaw
An open-jaw flight is one that, in the simplest
terms, flies from Point A to Point B, then from Point C home
to Point A. Points B and C are often neighboring airports, or at
least in the same general area. A sample open-jaw itinerary might
be Atlanta - Seattle on the way out; Portland, OR - Atlanta on the
way back.
Another open-jaw scenario: you fly into and out
of the same destination city, but your starting and finishing
points are different, thus: Fly Point A to Point B; then fly Point
B to Point C.
Despite the fact that an open-jaw itinerary isn't
quite a classic roundtrip, most airlines treat it as such, and
set the fare like this: you pay one-half the roundtrip fare of
each leg of the trip - one-half the roundtrip fare of the first leg,
and one-half the roundtrip fare of the second leg. The resulting total
fare will typically offer considerable savings over the cost of two,
separate one-way flights.
So if the Atlanta-Seattle roundtrip would cost
$600, and the Portland - Atlanta roundtrip would cost $500, you
end up paying $300 for the first leg, and $250 for the second leg,
for a total of $550 roundtrip.
The Circle
A circle itinerary typically begins and ends in
the same city, but includes at least three separate flights
that take you to two or more different cities, without the over
land portions of the open jaw.
Example: fly from New York to Detroit, then Detroit
to Houston, then Houston to New York. (Feel free to add a Point
D, E, F and beyond, but make sure you start and end at your original
city, New York in this example.)
Circle itineraries usually permit a maximum of
two stopovers, and are typically priced as a series of one-way
flights. (Circle fares may not save you as much as an open jaw.)
Still, circle fares qualify you for discounted fares, and you will
often find that the fares on the separate legs of your flight add up
to less than the pure roundtrip fare. This is especially true on popular
long-haul routes.
For example, the circle fare for a direct New
York-Seattle flight might cost more than the sum total of New
York - Detroit - Seattle - St. Louis - New York, with stopovers in
each city.
Exceptions and Rules
Open Jaw
The primary restriction on an open-jaw itinerary
is that the segment of your trip that you don't fly (the Seattle-Portland
leg in our example) must be shorter than the shortest leg of the
trip that you do fly.
So, for example, if you flew from Atlanta to Seattle,
then drove cross-country to New York, then flew back to Atlanta,
you couldn't qualify for the open-jaw discount, as the distance
from Seattle - New York is much greater than the distance from New
York- Atlanta.
Circle Fares
Restrictions and rules on circle itineraries vary
by airline, but usually take one of the two following forms,
both a variation on the old "Saturday night stay" rules:
1) You may not begin travel from the furthest
geographical point of your trip until the first Sunday of your
trip. Note that it is the furthest geographical point, not the
place you stay the longest or schedule in the middle of your trip.
2) You may not begin the last leg of your trip
until the first Sunday after the beginning of your trip.
The difference between the two is critical: in
the first instance, the order in which you visit the cities is
extremely important. In the latter instance, it is much less so.
Booking Engines
As it turns out, most online booking engines can
recognize a circle or open-jaw itinerary, and price them accordingly.
It might still be worth checking with your travel agent or the airlines
just to be sure. Be sure to ask them if minor adjustments of your
flight dates might help you qualify for either an open jaw or circle
itinerary on available airlines, and save you some money.
Ed Hewitt
Tailwnd@aol.com
The Independent Traveler
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