funeral travel

[rachelmichellek]

Don't they discount it like 50 percent if you are flying to a funeral?

My brother is stuck on a trip to Utah and says the airlines don't do anything with funeral discounts anymore. Is that true?

(Uncle John died last night.)

Comments

[siercia]

I don't know if they've stopped the programs, but even if they haven't, usually the discounts are discounts on full-fare tickets, which means you don't save much (if anything) compared to what you can find by careful shopping.

[jessieknits]

I flew Northwest when Grandma passed in February.

I'd like to set the whole airline on fire; they changed my tickets last minute so I missed her funeral, and their other incompetance on the trip made it one of the worst travel experiences of all time.

[jessieknits]

PS: No, they did not give me a discount. At all. Even after I provided them with the name and phone number of the funeral home with her body.

C'mon, who flies TO South Dakota in February? It was 10 degrees out there.