[quote name='Ikohn4ever']Is that a usual expense for plane tickets? I always heard of them being closer to a 1000 bucks. I have always been interested but that ticket was always killer. What airline did u fly and where did u get your ticket if you do not mind me asking?[/QUOTE]
Heheh of course I don't mind sharing. Tickets that are 1000 dollars roundtrip are usually around summertime. Before I left I went to JTB at mitsuwa in Torrence to buy tickets for the Ghibli Museum (You need to Reserve the day ahead of time, which is actually better than japanese residents who need to reserve specific times of day o.o) And I took a peek at the fare rates for thetime I left. i think I saw prices of around 400 for the time I left (March 31) and then prices gradualy went up thereafter. I got my tickets for 311 through some travel agency promotion (
http://www.iace-usa.com/) it was 35 thier anniversary or whatever and they gave away 35 tickets for 199 at all of thier california office locations. So me and my girlfriend decided to give it a crack and went in the morning about an hour before the opened. I don't know how 199-->311 after tax and stuff, it seemed like a bit much, but I guess they charged tax on the regular price of the ticket or something, still I wasn't gonna complain for a 311 rountrip ticket lol and there were tons of ppl in line who wouldve taken it from me anyway. They had a newyork promotion that gave away 5 tickets for 10 dollars or something hehe.
Anyway the Airline was NorthWest which leads to another story or why I hate LAX. Me and my girlfriend arrived at LAX around 2 or 3 hours early, checked into our flight normaly and went to the gate. I think we got to the gate around 9 AM and our flight was due to leave at 11:15 am. at around 10:00 or so they announced the flight was canceled so we went all the way back to the front counter (luckily my girlfriend had the intution to rush back right away beacuse it was a HUGE line behind us when we got to the counter). After around 30-40 minutes they finally got people to handle the situation (we were 3rd in line) and we got "rebooked" on Singapore Airlines for 1:30. So then we went to the baggage claim to reclaim our baggage so we could check them in at the Singapore Airlines terminal which was at another Terminal. So after around 30 mins my girlfriend's bag comes down but mine is nowhere to been seen. At this point a whole bunch of people had thier flights rebooked for United at 12:30 and thier baggage hadn't come down either. It was around 11:20 now or so so u can imagine how those people were getting very worried aboutnot being able to catch thier flight. In the end I think some people just left without getting thier baggage and still after an hour and 20 mins mine hadn't come down. By this point i'd seen about 15 bags from our flight come down and it was already almost 12:00. Needless to say I got a bit worried. Also I noticed everyone who checked in had gotten thier baggage together, so I asked one of the workers and he said "oh blah blah balh they just try to find them in a pile so it's random". I didn't buy that crap so I went in the office next door and asked the guy there. He said he'd check so he called the baggage people upstairs and lo and behold they somehow FORGOT TO SEND MY FRICKING BAG DOWN................ Anyway by this point it was 12:10, so I just told my girlfriend to rush to the other Terminal to check in ahead of me, and by 12:25 or so they finally sent down my bag. But ah yes the fun doesn't end there. After getting my bag from the baggage claim (which only took around 2 hours or more!) I made my way to the Tom Bradley Terminal only to meet my girlfriend halfway outside. It turns out there was this really asshole guy at the terminal who would'nt take our transfer ticket even though Northwest had called in earlier and he printed something out for us to give it to them. He said something about how the price wasn't written on it. So I said we should go back and go "omgwtfbbq" on them. Of course getting to the counter we have to get our baggage scanned first before checking it in, but of course I havent taken an international flight in like 10 years so these things don't ringwith me. But before that we actually manage to talk to the Manager Lady (not the jackass guy woot) and she says it'll be ok so they send somone to put us in line to scan ourluggage (of course we're panicing not thinking we'll make it cuz it's already like 1:00 and we still have to go through security and everything). But the manager lady is all checking us in saying about how cool thier airline is compared to northwest andcalls them lowly. And Boy was she right. luckily security didn't take too long and we made it right to the gate as they were boarding. But yeah Singapore airlines was definetly a class above. All seats had thier own LCD screens with multiple channels of Video on Demand. and the meals and snacks were awesome. they had like frickin EZboys in thier business class heh. But on the way back it was Northwest and considerbly more ghetto. I mean it gets you where you're going but it's definetly a step down. anyway there's my little rant/story