Random Old DD Seminar Slides

[Dan]

DDS 5 Towns and many others:

"The Verrazzano"







"The I-84"





DDS LA:

"The I-405"





"The I-5"





"The I-10"





"The I-5"




DDS CLE:

"The route 8"





"The turnpike rivalry"





"The I-80"








DDS ORD:

"The I-94"




DDS MIA:

"The I-95"

[yelped]

How did you get the system to show you this routing?

And did it only work with flights less than 24 hours apart? If so, what was the point of that?
 
And I'm assuming it was fixed for all of these?

[ExGingi]

While it's a cute thing to show, what (if any) was the practical lesson from these?

[Dan]

While it's a cute thing to show, what (if any) was the practical lesson from these?

These were great for the laughs "sure beats sitting in traffic," but there were some practical  uses thanks to SDC or in case of weather waivers. Or just going for cheap meal in a random city on the cheap in Y or J.

[Dan]

How did you get the system to show you this routing?

 
And I'm assuming it was fixed for all of these?

Multi-city search.

Years ago, AFAIK.

[ari3]

And did it only work with flights less than 24 hours apart? If so, what was the point of that?

Skip the second leg?

[yelped]

Skip the second leg?

What's the point of that? Point was to get a RT for the price of a OW.

[Dan]

What's the point of that? Point was to get a RT for the price of a OW.

It was less than a OW. This tricked the system into pricing it as a short-haul hop.

[yelped]

It was less than a OW. This tricked the system into pricing it as a short-haul hop.

Ah. Didn't know that. So cool.

As an aside, it's crazy how much worse United's site is these days. Information was much more readable then. Today it's just nicely packaged and hard to find anything.

[sillypainter]

It was less than a OW. This tricked the system into pricing it as a short-haul hop.

The 25K for J EWR-LAX at that time wasn't it the normal one way price?

ETA. I see now JN. So you basically always had availability...... Especially if you had the Presidential card.

[Joe4007]

$2.50 in taxes!

[Shauly101]

What am I missing what was the deal back the ?

[lubaby]

What am I missing what was the deal back the ?

It was less than a OW. This tricked the system into pricing it as a short-haul hop.

[Yaalili]

$2.50 in taxes!

Good old days!

[ExGingi]

Good old days!

My definition of those is when paper tickets were issued and we used coupons out of sequence for a domestic RT and an international RT for 30k miles.

[YitzyS]

Is this going to be one of those threads that are so interesting but Dan only leaks a smidgen of information every three months just to whet our appetites but nothing more?

[Dan]

How can you whet an appetite with what was already discussed in some 18 seminars?

[YitzyS]

How can you whet an appetite with what was already discussed in some 18 seminars?

I regretfully never attended one. But I thought I was finally getting some juice. Loved the first set of slides, and was waiting for next set to drop. 
 And waiting.    And waiting.    And waiting. 

[Yo ssi]

Hmm

[Dan]

Hmm

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