I think that when people are booking flights on other people's dimes, they tend to spend less time researching for the best deals. I can tell you that I fly fairly often and I have never spent over $500 on a flight, ever. Next week I am flying to Rochester, NY for shows and from there to St Louis for their shows the same weekend. With a little bit of work I was able to secure all of those flights for around $200. In the last couple of years I have flown to shows in California & Washington state and those flights were under $400 roundtrip. Those types of deals may not always be possible, but I seem to be able to find them 80% of the time or more, which saves my clients money. Maybe we should have one person book travel for our board members and maybe even judges! <vbg> Jeff Pyle Windfall -----Original Message----- From: LeBrowngsd <LeBrowngsd@xxxxxxx> To: Bokenkampgsd1 <Bokenkampgsd1@xxxxxxx>; ELG440 <ELG440@xxxxxxx>; showgsd-l <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Mon, Apr 30, 2012 10:44 pm Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: We need to help Molly, my AB shows are at the end of May. I have gotten bills for some of y judges airfare already and I can tell you that none came in at under 00.00. I have one judge that charged his air to onofrio which is fine with the club and his airfare is 700.00+, not sure of the exact amount right now. I hink by the time we pay air, hotel, meals, parking and transportation we re probably looking at $1200.00 plus for each judge. Not a good thing but hat is reality. ee Brown n a message dated 4/30/2012 9:22:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time, okenkampgsd1@xxxxxxx writes: Pretty hard to find budget flights Helen.....and very difficult to find any even near $300. now. Flying judges in to our past show (3 of them) veraged out overall to almost $400 a piece..... lso, budget hotels do not have suitable meeting rooms...another onsideration. here was talk of members sharing rooms. when you go too low on rooms, ou don't get that meeting room comped and that is certainly a onsideration. eeting rooms can be very expensive. olly n a message dated 4/30/2012 5:21:09 P.M. Central Daylight Time, elenfranklin520@xxxxxxx writes: djust to cover costs realistically with mphasis on budget flights and budget hotels. =========================================================================== OST is Copyrighted 2011. All material remains the property of the riginal author and of GSD Communication, Inc. 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