The Southwest Airlines game

While I enjoy doing sudoku puzzles a few times a week, there are other games I enjoy playing as well. One of those is “The Southwest Airlines game”, as I think of it.

You play it like so:

1. Countdown to the day when a new batch of plane ticket prices and schedules are released for a desired period of time.
2. Plan frantically in the few days following the release when you are flying, where you are flying, how long you are staying for, what airports to fly in/out of, and find the cheapest combination of all the above options.
3. Make expensive purchase on your credit card for services you will not redeem for nearly 6 months to come. Talk about advance purchases.
4. Check every fortnight on all the flights purchased to see if the price has gone down so that you can recover some of your money as credit for future purchases. This is time consuming, but oh-so rewarding.

Oh, life’s little pleasures. They ought to turn this into a board game or something– y’know, Monopoly but with airplane tickets.

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