Back in the NYC
Good morning, peeps. I'm back in New York, where the high temperature yesterday was about 50 degrees cooler than where I was all last week. It's been a couple years since I'd pulled that need-to-get-on-the-next-plane deal. I was pretty surprised to find that pretty much after 8 p.m., you can't fly from New York to Los Angeles. If my grandmother had lost consciousness about an hour earlier, I could have gotten a nice little $144 one-way ticket on America West via the Internet. Instead, the best I could get was first thing Sunday morning on JetBlue for $300 something. Surprisingly, I tried a bunch of the general travel web sites -- CheapTickets, Expedia, Site59 - and the best they could do was around $1,200 if anything. On the way back, I booked America West for about $160 one-way out of LAX. JetBlue out of Long Beach would have been cheaper, but mom and dad were having their annual Indy 500 party that day, so I didn't want to hit them up for a ride to Long Beach. For LAX, you can just hop on Airport Bus of Bakersfield -- a company that figures prominently in a number of my good-karma travel stories.

As for airport security, they were great at both JFK and LAX. In New York, I was flagged as high-risk when I checked in since I'd bought a one-way ticket the night before. They told me to skip regular security to go right to another place -- so I had to pass really long lines to get to super security, where the line was short and everyone was thorough and nice.
- posted by Amy @ 5/27/2003 11:49:00 AM