Are you a college students? Fly for $249 all summer long

It does seem (and probably is) a really good deal. The only problem is that with people like me (with a job/internship) I can't just take off every other week. I'll probably have one week of vacation (which is at CP :) ). Even if I did get another week, it wouldn't merit the $250 cost. If I didn't have a job though, I'd hop all over this. (Considering Washington Dulles is my home airport too). I wonder if any other low-cost airlines will follow suit?

Then again, sometimes catching the right deal can be pretty cheap anyway. I flew from Washington Dulles to Long Beach for $210 round trip including taxes ($95 each way before taxes) on JetBlue (it was my first time with them...and it was a spectacular experience with leather seats, plenty of legroom, live TV in every seat and great service). Sorry to get off topic, but my point is that if you watch closely enough, you can get some pretty sweet deals. (I think my aunt took Independence from Washington to Orlando for $39 each way)

hmmm very interesting I may have to look into this...

-- alan jacyszyn

janfrederick said:

If you are a 25-year-old college teacher, then you can obviously afford the higher prices.

Afford my a$$ ;) I teach at 2 universites and am still poor....I WANT CHEAP TICKETS! :) *** Edited 4/5/2005 1:59:24 AM UTC by Peabody***

Real Cbuzz quote of the day - "The classes i take in collage are so mor adcanced then u could imagen. Dont talk about my emglihs" - Adamforce

Why is it that companies give out student discounts and then put an age on it? If your giving out a discount to people earning a higher education, why exclude some of it's population.

Just because us old farts have decided to go back to school shouldn't exclude us from some of the normal benefits too! I know of several businesses here in my home town that give college students discounts and put the age limit on it too so I'm not just picking at this one instance.

If someone is in the know of why they practice this, chime in. I'd love to hear it. (I'm sure it all comes down to some form of economics on the business side of the house)

This ain't no book you can close, when the big light hits your eyes. Cropduster-Riot Act-Pearl Jam

Because there would be people (like my mom :() who travel large amounts. And guess what, she's going back to school to get her masters. $250 for an entire summer of flights. And technically, I'll be a college student next year as a freshman in high school (I be smaert or some ting lke that!!!111!!!). I'll have an school ID and officail transcripts that say I went to Tri-C for a class and I am an official student. And trust me, the 13 and 40 year-old crowd isn't the audience they're after. Too many people would take a class and say they are official college students. Their philosiphy is to get 4 year, young college students using their airlines to bop around the country with some buddies over spring break and pay $250 for it.

Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

whoa is all i have to say bout that one;)

Tim....who wonders if other airlines might try and compete with this....

still trying to think of a good signature...

Peabody said: Afford my a$$ I teach at 2 universites and am still poor....I WANT CHEAP TICKETS!

Uhhhhh, poor teachers kick ass. Besides, I don't want to afford your ass. ;)

The Flying Turns makes all the right people wet - Gonch

My brother (CaptainJoel) used to be a Captain at Independence (formerly operating as United Express/Atlantic Coast Airlines) years ago. They broke off away from United in 02 or 03 and tried to make it on their own, and they're TANKING. So this does reek of despairation to me.

Be honest...who hear had heard of Independence Air before you read this thread?

Real Cbuzz quote of the day - "The classes i take in collage are so mor adcanced then u could imagen. Dont talk about my emglihs" - Adamforce

re above: not me :-P
edit: re: last post on previous page ;) *** Edited 4/5/2005 6:55:57 AM UTC by SFDL_Dude***

Joey Stewart said:
Why is it that companies give out student discounts and then put an age on it? If your giving out a discount to people earning a higher education, why exclude some of it's population.

My guess would be to exclude part time students at colleges who may have a full time job but still able to get a student id because their taking classes. I do this all of the time with Computer Software.

A day at the park is what you make it!

^ I see your logic there. But then again, why can't they just tailor it a bit more and say "discount applies to full time students only."?

Maybe I'm just arguing a losing point but it seems a bit unfair to me that since I'm 33, and have decided to go back to school taking 16 hours, all the while I have a full time job AND a part time job (2 jobs total) and own my own home too, why should I be left out of some of these "perks" just because I'm older than the traditional student?

This ain't no book you can close, when the big light hits your eyes. Cropduster-Riot Act-Pearl Jam

Peabody said:
Be honest...who hear had heard of Independence Air before you read this thread?

Well, actually, I had. But then again, I live in the Washington, DC area so their commercials are on the radio all the time.

39 bucks each way to Orlando huh? I genuinely dislike Dull-a$$ airport, but I might have to look into that one...

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Peabody said:
Be honest...who hear had heard of Independence Air before you read this thread?

I think they had a billboard up along the parkway on the way to the airport here in Pittsburgh last year.

...or was that USA3000?

Maybe it was Ted? Or Spirit or JetBlue?

No, it was definitely USA3000. They only fly to something like 5 places from PIT.

I'm all for discount airlines, but some of them are just a little scary. :)

Hell, I avoid $39 hotel rooms because it gives me the willies when I think of what corners must be cut to stay profitable at that level. Imagine the shortcuts taken to keep an airline giving $39 flights profitable.

Maybe I just don't understand the industry?

coasterimage - lordgonchar

I think we people who are students and are outside that age range should sue for age discrimination. ;)

--George H

Think of it this way: you are all that much closer to getting the $2.99 Denny's Senior Special than all those young whippersnappers out there. Who'll be whining about age discrimination then?

http://cse.umich.edu/

Hey, I've actually threatened restaurants into giving me the age specific discounts before by telling them that it is discriminatory and I could/would sue them if they didn't. ;) (not that I actually would, mind you, but they don't know that.)

--George H

As far as I understand Gonch, it's not necessarily cutting corners to stay profitable, but only offering enough flights and destinations so that your flights are full.

Thus why you hear people warning of JetBlue's demise as they start offering more and more flights from more and more cities.

2Hostyl said:
39 bucks each way to Orlando huh? I genuinely dislike Dull-a$$ airport, but I might have to look into that one...

You BETTER let me know if you're headed my way...come on down for some SheiKra! :)

George: good luck. You'll lose. I can't find any legal opinion that says age-based discounting is illegal, and at least one opinion that says it is legal when, for example, visiting SFA:

http://www.mchr.state.md.us/agediscrimination.html

Edit: found another from Washington State. This one is more interesting. It is legal by federal and Washington state law to discount rent for seniors, but not by King County law:

http://www.metrokc.gov/dias/ocre/100Qs3.htm *** Edited 4/5/2005 3:38:28 PM UTC by Brian Noble***

http://cse.umich.edu/

Hey, I've actually threatened restaurants into giving me the age specific discounts before by telling them that it is discriminatory and I could/would sue them if they didn't.

Am I reading this right when I understand you've actually threatened to sue resturaunts if they didn't give you an age specific discount, even though you aren't old/young enough for it, due to age discrimination?