[Magdalen] Broken Leg Trip

[Roger Stokes]

There can also be a problem if it's a return ticket.  Of you fail to 
show for the first leg of the return trip (because you did not complete 
the outward trip) they may decide you won't make the second leg (from 
your actual destination) either and not let you on that leg either.  I 
suspect that checking in in advance and getting your boarding pass would 
overcome that but I would not guarantee it.

Happy digging.

Roger

On 04/05/2015 16:33, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>
> It's of to Harrisburg tomorrow for three days of coal company research 
> at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg.
>
> This being Scranton, we have to stay between Tuesday and Saturday 
> because there are no buses timed to allow a full day in the state 
> capitol.
>
> The ticket clerk at the Bus Terminal recently told me that it's 
> cheaper to purchase a round trip to Sunbury than Harrisburg even 
> though one needs to change buses in Harrisburg. That's left over from 
> a tariff from when there was a direct bus to Sunbury, so this may be a 
> bus-type Broken Leg trip for us.
>
> It always pays to check for such when flying too -- as long as there's 
> no luggage to check, sometimes fares via a connecting city from the 
> city you really want to get to is cheaper than the direct fare. For 
> example, during the years I was traveling around the country a lot, my 
> travel agent found a  Los Angles to Grand Rapids airline ticket for 
> $168 (change planes in Chicago) when the LA-Chicago ticket was $308. 
> One simply "misses the plane" at O'Hare and thus saving $140.
>
> Airlines hate it when people discover these "deals."
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
> "The enemy isn’t liberalism;
> the enemy isn’t conservatism.
> The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson
>
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