a true story that happened to me

[fox]

SCENE:  La Guardia airport, 5:20 pm, Monday, 21 January 2008.

counter guy:  Can I help you?
me:  Let me ask you this, which is probably a long shot.  With this ticket to Baltimore -- [brandishes boarding pass] -- is there any way you can punch some buttons and get me on that plane -- [points to plane] -- to National?  ... Where my car is and it would make my day a lot easier?
counter guy:  [punches a lot of buttons]
counter guy:  [for, like, five minutes]
counter guy:  You have any baggage checked?
me:  Nope.
counter guy:  [punches more buttons][hands me a new boarding pass]  Here you go.

So instead of landing at BWI at like 8pm and waiting for sanj to land at 10 and then drive me back home to DCA, I landed at DCA and drove home and got there at like 7:45.  WIN!

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

On New Year's Eve, United did the same thing for me where the airports in question were Tampa and Orlando, which is the only reason it occurred to me to ask USAir about it today. Thing is, I was going to BWI because all the flights bringing me back to DCA were going to set me back like $200 more than the ticket I bought.

I've yet to try it with airports more than like an hour apart on the ground. Next up: "Hi, see, I have this ticket to Cincinnati, but can you do some things with that computer and reroute me to London?"

[thalia]

Yeah... good luck with that one. And please do let me know if it works.