I will fly out on Monday, August 5 to DC. I will stay with my niece Gina and her family for five days and fly out early on August 10 for Iowa. I will stay until the day after Labor Day. I have a direct Chicago to Abu Dhabi flight.
So I get Etihad from Abu Dhabi to DC and Etihad from Chicago to Abu Dhabi. When you have to spend 16 hours on a flight it is good to be on the best airline for it. Yippee!
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Being the geek I am, I check four websites almost every day: Expedia, Travelocity, American Airlines and Cleartrip. On the weekends I check several more.
For two months I consistently saw the flights I wanted at roughly Dh 6000 ($1600). All was good... I didn't want to book until I knew for sure of my dates. Two weeks ago all good flights on Etihad disappeared. Not a little higher in price, but simply disappeared.
I panicked. I've researched countless other options. All would cost $3-400 more and have some long layovers.
Miraculously, the good flights became available again last night so I grabbed them as quickly as possible.
I'm excited.
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