Doesn't it feel like you just hit the lottery? Not the big Powerball...but like hitting the daily number or whatever. 😉

Fares are looking good right now! Except Delta - a friend of mine was looking to join me in STT later this month with her daughter....but the non-stop from ATL was over $1,000.

USair, American and Spirit are all looking good for the dates I have been interested in.

So, do we need to ask where you'll go with your $400 voucher?

Yeah it was about like hitting a nice lottery ticket. Already looking at fares for May. I have a friend that owns a timeshare week that she bought years ago, I think they were serving rum at the presentation. She never uses it so I may try to put a cheap trip together then. Bluwater have your friend check out this site www.kayak.com
I found it on one of the other boards it is really cool. It searches something like 100 sources including the big ones and the airlines and finds the best fares. Anyone that hasn't check prices against there current reservations need to they are much lower now and a voucher is better than paying to much.
20 Days to wheels/fins up
Jay

Of course Delta's airfares aren't going down. We have tickets for June and they cost $750 out of Wichita. I guess that's what happens when you live where the sheep get nervous in the winter. I just checked Delta and the rates haven't changed since we booked them in October. The good thing is we go to Atlanta and directly to STT. Last year we had to go through San Juan and waited over two hours for them to find pilots to fly the plane to STT. It was after 9:00 pm when we got to STT.

Looking out the window at 6 inches of snow makes our trip in June feel like we're hitting the lottery..

Yeah,
Its twenty degrees and snowing here. (Kinda sounds like a line from a Buffett song). Fins up in 20 days. Seven couples out of eight of us got large vouchers back for US Air yesterday and today the other couple used frequent flier miles so they are out on the discount.

Thank you for posting this! We paid a ridiculous sum for tickets from PHL on Usair for Easter week. After reading this post I checked and the fares had gone down a bit and it adds up on 4 tickets. My vouchers are coming in the mail!

This may be a dumb question, but how the heck do you get a voucher for your flights? We paid a large amount to fly from Philly in April. How do you get a voucher - I thought tickets were non-refundable?? Thanks!

Liz,
Flights are on US Airways. Be persistent keep going up the food chain I had to get to a supervisors supervisor before they even spoke English as a first language. The won't give a refund but they will give a voucher good towards future travel. My tickets are nonrefundable as well. Between the seven couples we got almost four thousand dollars back. My flight went from $521.50 before taxes to $338.00 They aren't going to advertise or readily admit they are will to do this.
Good luck

Does anyone know if American Airlines gives vouchers? If so, I'll keep checking to see if my tickets go down as well.

How about Continental Airlines? I'm not a "world-wide" traveler, and wasn't even aware until a few months ago (from reading this forum) that airlines even give vouchers. My husband travels alot, but his company always make his reservations, so it never was an issue.

I have checked periodically and our flights have never gone lower than the amount that we're paying (so far) but would like to know, in case it does happen, if Continental gives vouchers. nothing like run-on sentences, huh?

Here is what I found on a travel site.

Here's what the major airlines offer:

• Alaska Airlines/ Horizon Air: Travel voucher good for one year for the difference in fares, minus a $10 service charge.

• Northwest Airlines: Two options: Voucher good for one year, less a $25 service fee. Cash refund, minus a $100 fee.

• US Airways/America West Airlines: Voucher good for one year issued at no charge. Cash refund, minus a $100 fee. Certain promotional fares excluded.

• United Airlines: A United spokeswoman would not respond to phone and e-mail requests for clarification on the airline's policy.

Information on its Web site says that United will issue a voucher good for one year for domestic flights, and apply a (unspecified) fee on international tickets. Two reservations agents with whom I spoke said the airline would not charge a fee in either case.

• Continental Airlines: Voucher good for one year, minus the normal change fees applicable to the original fare (usually $100 on domestic flights and $200 on international). "However, we work with customers on a case-by-case basis if individual circumstances apply," said spokeswoman Susannah Thurston.

• Delta Airlines: Voucher good for one year, less change fees applicable to the original fare (usually $50 for domestic flights and $200 on international).

• American Airlines: Cash refund for the difference in fares, less change fees applicable to the original fare (usually $100 for domestic flights and $200 on international).

The airline's Conditions of Carriage agreement adds, "When reduced fares are for sale for a limited period of time, American reserves the right to decline to issue refunds."

• Southwest Airlines: Credit for future travel within one year; after that, a voucher good any time. No service fee.

• JetBlue Airways: Voucher good for one year. No fee. If a sale fare applies to a different itinerary or flight times, JetBlue allows customers to cancel the original booking with no penalty and rebook the new flight.

Full article: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2003541377_pucci28.html

Hope this helps.

By the way I didn't pay the$100 Fee.
Jay

wow, thanks for the info!

BTW Capt Jay,
You look soooo familiar, I have shown your pic to hubby and he says "well sort of." I just wondered since we live fairly close, is there a way I could have seen you before. Since you are a die-hard Herd fan, I doubt it would've been a WVU games, but maybe you've been on TV (commercial?) What business are you in? Its driving me crazy wondereing where I might have seen you or a pic of you somewhere else. PM me if you don't mind answering me, but don't want to publicly. 🙂

With USAir, I have found that they only charge the $100 fee IF you change your itinerary to get the discount. i.e. Lets say that you are booked on the 2pm return flight, but the 4pm return is $200 cheaper and you want to come back on that flight to get the cheaper fare, then you'll pay the $100 to chnage to that flight, so your voucher will only give you credit for $100 since the reduced fare was $200 difference and you pay the $100 change fee.

Otherwise, if your exact itinerary's fare goes down, you should get the full refund in the form of a voucher. Sometimes you'll reach a representative who doesn't understand the voucher situation, so just call back and try someone else.