Flying for Thanksgiving • Hacker News Board

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by lowpro » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 5:09 AM UTC

josephpmay wrote: post #10

kevindong wrote: post #7

Growing up, my Chinese family didn't really celebrate Christmas. Consequently, we would always travel for family vacations on Christmas day. Christmas day flights were generally slightly cheaper than non-Christmas day flights, which was nice. --- I also like how the writer asked for the daily number of unique users but got bandwidth usage instead.

I once got a $5 flight from Fort Lauderdale to New York on Christmas Day

Do you remember how you found it?

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by Xcelerate » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 5:57 AM UTC

This reminds me: I procrastinated and haven't booked my Christmas ticket yet... Bay Area to Atlanta — anyone got any tips? I think Google Flights is the best way to find the cheapest ticket, but if there's something else out there I'd be glad to know!

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by mav3rick » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 6:02 AM UTC

Xcelerate wrote: post #22

This reminds me: I procrastinated and haven't booked my Christmas ticket yet... Bay Area to Atlanta — anyone got any tips? I think Google Flights is the best way to find the cheapest ticket, but if there's something else out there I'd be glad to know!

If you can, just stay longer and work remotely for a couple of days ? Google Flights tells you day-to-day flight prices.

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by zorpner » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 6:05 AM UTC

AshleyGrant wrote: post #5

Flying on Thanksgiving Day is a joy. I've done it twice now. The ATL concourses are practically empty. It is a bit strange to see the flight boards almost empty on a Thursday morning. I do bring $5 Starbucks gift cards for the entire crew of every flight I'm on to thank them for having to work on a day when most of the country is with family. It's not much, but it's something. The folks flying on holidays are low on…

I always try to fly on Thanksgiving/Christmas day (SFO->DCA this Thursday), and this is a great idea. Thank you!

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by mellow-lake-day » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 6:12 AM UTC

Xcelerate wrote: post #22

This reminds me: I procrastinated and haven't booked my Christmas ticket yet... Bay Area to Atlanta — anyone got any tips? I think Google Flights is the best way to find the cheapest ticket, but if there's something else out there I'd be glad to know!

When I was buying a ticket to Europe for study abroad I was checking these sites, in the end I used the first one, but all were helpful:

* http://www.momondo.com/

* https://www.kayak.com/flights

* https://www.cheapoair.com/

* https://www.google.com/flights/ ($$$)

* https://www.hipmunk.com/ ($$$)

* http://kiwi.com/

* https://www.skyscanner.net/

The ones with the dollars signs were the most expensive. These sites are not all equal some are more reputable than others, etc.

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by deadprogram » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 6:40 AM UTC

Oh man, how I love data! Good work on this post.

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by potench » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 6:56 AM UTC

Xcelerate wrote: post #22

This reminds me: I procrastinated and haven't booked my Christmas ticket yet... Bay Area to Atlanta — anyone got any tips? I think Google Flights is the best way to find the cheapest ticket, but if there's something else out there I'd be glad to know!

Anecdotally, use the brave browser to look for hotels and flights. Since it blocks tracking I’ve heard you will see lower cost flights (I’ve also heard the converse that searching with iPhone/safari may result in higher prices.) https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9gkcow/brave_br...

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by gumby » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 7:00 AM UTC

The weird thing to me about flying on Thanksgiving (I don't observe it) is how sorry the air staff is for me "of you have to miss out on fly on thanksgiving"). While they have to work on that day and apparently it matters to them!

Since it matters to them I thank them for their concern. But it's really simply an easy day to travel if I have a reason to.

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by bigmattystyles » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 7:11 AM UTC

potench wrote: post #27

Xcelerate wrote: post #22

This reminds me: I procrastinated and haven't booked my Christmas ticket yet... Bay Area to Atlanta — anyone got any tips? I think Google Flights is the best way to find the cheapest ticket, but if there's something else out there I'd be glad to know!

Anecdotally, use the brave browser to look for hotels and flights. Since it blocks tracking I’ve heard you will see lower cost flights (I’ve also heard the converse that searching with iPhone/safari may result in higher prices.) https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/9gkcow/brave_br...

When I tried it with their built in TOR, many travel sites just refused to serve me a page.

Re: Flying for Thanksgiving

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Post by desdiv » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 7:13 AM UTC

js2 wrote: post #16

kevindong wrote: post #7

Growing up, my Chinese family didn't really celebrate Christmas. Consequently, we would always travel for family vacations on Christmas day. Christmas day flights were generally slightly cheaper than non-Christmas day flights, which was nice. --- I also like how the writer asked for the daily number of unique users but got bandwidth usage instead.

If it wasn’t for your people, my people would starve on Christmas. https://www.npr.org/2017/12/25/573415894/why-do-jewish-peopl... :-)

Believe it or not, this topic of "where do Jews eat on Christmas" actually came up in a light-hearted way during a Supreme Court nominee hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tku61sKhPGo