Comments on: Flying Can Be a Financial Sinkhole http://www.doughroller.net/personal-finance/how-to-fly-cheap/ Money Management and Personal Finance | The Dough Roller Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:24:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan @ IQ Test http://www.doughroller.net/personal-finance/how-to-fly-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-17108 Ryan @ IQ Test Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:15:51 +0000 http://www.doughroller.net/?p=10819#comment-17108 Flying costs so much money when it is all said and done. That is why you have to get your work to pay for it. If you can do that it is worth it. Even with frequent flyer miles it still adds up to too much sometimes. Flying costs so much money when it is all said and done. That is why you have to get your work to pay for it. If you can do that it is worth it. Even with frequent flyer miles it still adds up to too much sometimes.

]]> By: Ron http://www.doughroller.net/personal-finance/how-to-fly-cheap/comment-page-1/#comment-17052 Ron Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:08:19 +0000 http://www.doughroller.net/?p=10819#comment-17052 I agree. I have to travel quite a lot with my job and have grown to loathe flying, If it takes less than 8 hours, I prefer to drive. A few other costs: some airports are stuck in 1995 and charge a wifi fee. Now that you're at the airport 3 hours early with nothing to do (unless you brought a book or have an air card), plan to pony up. Also, there's a better than even chance your flight will be delayed and after having to get there three hours early to go through the pseudo-security scans means flying costs even more. My time is worth a lot to me and my company, but the airports and airlines don't really see it that way. I'm just waiting to see if someone will sue the airlines for their deep vein thrombosis problem from being cramped in a seat designed for a 9 year old child. No, flying isn't what it used to be. Today it's a pain in the neck. I agree. I have to travel quite a lot with my job and have grown to loathe flying, If it takes less than 8 hours, I prefer to drive.

A few other costs: some airports are stuck in 1995 and charge a wifi fee. Now that you’re at the airport 3 hours early with nothing to do (unless you brought a book or have an air card), plan to pony up. Also, there’s a better than even chance your flight will be delayed and after having to get there three hours early to go through the pseudo-security scans means flying costs even more. My time is worth a lot to me and my company, but the airports and airlines don’t really see it that way.

I’m just waiting to see if someone will sue the airlines for their deep vein thrombosis problem from being cramped in a seat designed for a 9 year old child.

No, flying isn’t what it used to be. Today it’s a pain in the neck.

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