Okay, this is fun. Setting up a series of one way jogs across China, Singapore, and India through Expedia and Travelocity. The numbers are just insane. I’ve never seen price spans like this before. Getting home, on a single page, they offered me trips ranging from $800 to $11,000, and taking from 17 hours to upwards of 28 hours. Singapore air is even more fun. They display their prices in the currency of the departing country. So. One flight was 8000. Another, similar in distance was 800. Both worked out to around $600. Gah.
I almost wept at the simplicity of the hotel arrangements. Yes, $200 a night. Great. I’ll take it. Free internet? Awesome. Marble bathroom and fitness facility that spans three floors? Great, but all I’m gonna see is the bed after my 20 hour trip. What about pillows? Do I get extra pillows?
Strangely, it appears to be cheaper (not to mention more convenient) to come and go from Providence than from Boston. The two are totally uncorrelated though, since either city requires a hop to some hub. Basically I tap into different airline networks depending on the departure city. I wind up connecting in Frankfurt or Chicago out of Providence, and Amsterdam and Dulles out of Boston.
This trip is still totally insane.
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