{"id":1596,"date":"2007-06-05T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T20:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/05\/when-flight-cost-goes-down\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T20:53:42","slug":"when-flight-cost-goes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/when-flight-cost-goes-down\/","title":{"rendered":"When Flight Cost Goes Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airline flight tickets have become really, really expensive. We have canceled our planned trip to France this summer, and are planning our long-overdue family vacation at the domestic level.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you&#8217;ve paid for airline tickets, and then you find the same flight a week later for less cash. Is there anything you can do about it?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that there is. United, JetBlue, USAir, Southwest and Alaska will give you a voucher for the difference in price &#8211; if you know enough to ask them for it.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to buy the new tickets, however, you may face serious fees &#8211; even for the same itinerary and on the same airline! Continental and America charge $100, Delta charges $50, Frontier charges $35 and Northwest charges $25. <\/p>\n<p>Still, the difference in price might be worth it. If you&#8217;d like to be notified when your flight price is reduced, sign up for alert e-mails from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yapta.com\">yapta.com<\/a>. You&#8217;ll have to act pretty much immediately when you get the alert, but it might be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>(Thank you once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/clarkhoward.com\/shownotes\/2007\/05\/31\/\">Clark Howard<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airline flight tickets have become really, really expensive. We have canceled our planned trip to France this summer, and are planning our long-overdue family vacation at the domestic level. Suppose you&#8217;ve paid for airline tickets, and then you find the same flight a week later for less cash. Is there anything you can do about it? It turns out that there is. United, JetBlue, USAir, Southwest and Alaska will give you a voucher for the difference in price &#8211; if&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2007\/06\/when-flight-cost-goes-down\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3873,3874,2194,3875,3876,3877,3878,3879,3880,3881,2226,3882,3883],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","tag-airline-tickets","tag-alaska","tag-american-airlines","tag-clark-howard","tag-continental-airlines","tag-delta","tag-frontier","tag-jetblue","tag-northwest","tag-southwest-airlines","tag-united-airlines","tag-usair","tag-yapta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}