Hey guys! Okay, I'm flying from L.A. to Cedar Rapids, Iowa over Thanksgiving (to see family). Then the Sat. after Thanksgiving, I'm going to fly to New York City for a few days to visit friends, then fly home to L.A. around Dec. 3rd. After numerous internet searches, I've found that NWA offers the best deal - around $573 - for this crazy trip. BUT I have to change planes TWICE! (connecting through Minneapolis and THEN Detroit) to fly from Cedar Rapids to NYC!! Any other ideas of carriers that can do this route? United wanted around $600 for the same itinerary; AA wanted $800!! What other carriers fly into Cedar Rapids? I'm willing to take more than one carrier if it makes it cheaper/more convienant. Any suggestions would help, thanks!

How about this?


AMERICAN AIRLINES
424 LAX Los Angeles 11/26/2003 09:50 AM ORD Chicago 11/26/2003 03:42 PM Coach



AMERICAN AIRLINES
OPERATED BY AMERICAN EAGLE 4005 ORD Chicago 11/26/2003 05:13 PM CID Cedar Rapids 11/26/2003 06:13 PM Coach




AMERICAN AIRLINES
OPERATED BY AMERICAN EAGLE 4375 CID Cedar Rapids 11/29/2003 06:28 AM ORD Chicago 11/29/2003 07:25 AM Coach



AMERICAN AIRLINES
390 ORD Chicago 11/29/2003 08:00 AM LGA New York 11/29/2003 11:05 AM Coach




AMERICAN AIRLINES
1 JFK New York 12/03/2003 09:00 AM LAX Los Angeles 12/03/2003 12:02 PM Coach






Your Price
Number of Passengers Ticket Price per Person Taxes and Fees per Person Price
1 Adult(s)
464.09 USD
76.31 USD
540.40 USD

Your Total Price 540.40 USD

Looks pretty awesome,the AA itenarary! Where did you find it? Their website? When I checked, everything was $800!

It is AA.com, but it involves a discount code which I can't post here. If you want to give me your e-mail address I will show you how to get this fare and the above flights.

I forgot to mention that the above without the discount code prices out just under $600.

Even better:

482 per person

Flight 1 Wednesday, Nov 26 Northwest Airlines 316 1 stop
Depart: 8:50am Los Angeles, CA (LAX) Economy | 3hr 28min
Boeing 757

Arrive: 2:18pm Minneapolis, MN (MSP)
Change planes. Time between flights: 1hr 32min

Northwest Airlines 5696
operated by Pinnacle Airlines
Depart: 3:50pm Minneapolis, MN (MSP) Economy | 1hr 2min
Canadair

Arrive: 4:52pm Cedar Rapids, IA (CID)
total duration: 6hr 2min

Flight 2 Saturday, Nov 29 Northwest Airlines 5668
operated by Pinnacle Airlines 1 stop
Depart: 11:30am Cedar Rapids, IA (CID) Economy | 1hr 0min
Canadair

Arrive: 12:30pm Minneapolis, MN (MSP)
Change planes. Time between flights: 0hr 43min

Northwest Airlines 624
Depart: 1:13pm Minneapolis, MN (MSP) Economy | 2hr 40min
Airbus A320

Arrive: 4:53pm Newark, NJ (EWR)
total duration: 4hr 23min

Flight 3 Wednesday, Dec 3 Northwest Airlines 803 1 stop
Depart: 10:05am Newark, NJ (EWR) Economy | 2hr 59min
Boeing Douglas DC-9

Arrive: 12:04pm Memphis, TN (MEM)
Change planes. Time between flights: 0hr 46min

Northwest Airlines 183
Depart: 12:50pm Memphis, TN (MEM) Economy | 4hr 1min
Airbus A319

Arrive: 2:51pm Los Angeles, CA (LAX)
total duration: 7hr 46min


Found this on Orbitz.com

Good luck!

WOW, prices change by the minute. Now the AA itinerary is also coming in at $488 after the 10% discount code. You will have to decide if you want to fly in/out of Newark on NW or LGA/JFK on AA. If you decide on AA, you will have to get the discount code. Let me know.

AAFrequentFlyer, I'd LOVE to email you to get the discount code, but I'm a newbie Fodorite and have ZERO idea how to email an individual!! ARGH! Let me know, thanks!

Unfortunately, Fodors does not have that option. so you would have to post it right here and I will e-mail you. Make sure to put a space somewhere in the address so any autiomatic address readers won't get your address, for example : if your address is [email protected] post it like this 123_info.com and I will know.

hilary....you would have to post your individual email addy here......Hope that helps...S

[email protected] - thanks!