The Purchase

The Purchases

After the deliberation over flights as discussed on "The Travel" page, we finalized our flight plans on:

Delta:	Originating Airport	Flight	Destination Airport	Airplane
To:	St.Louis	Delta 311	Hartsfield Atlanta International	MD 88
	Hartsfield Atlanta International	Delta 64	Manchester	Boeing 767
From:	Manchester	Delta 65	Atlanta	Boeing 767
	Atlanta	Delta 773	St. Louis	MD 88
Cost:	$1439.60 (as of Feb. 20) $1570.42 (as purchased April 4)
Travel Time:	11:10

There was only two pieces of business that needed to be concluded before we would purchase our airline tickets. Passports for James III and James IV. James III, being a Canadian citizen, had to go through an unusually complicated process to apply for a Canadian passport. There were pictures and declatory statements and documents and copies and other assorted governmental paperwork. James IV's passport application was somewhat more streight forward. However, . . . James IV is a minor and as such the passport application needed to be presented to the Post Office either with both parents present or with a letter of approval from the absent parent. Fortunately, I had checked with the lady at the Post Office in the Passport booth and knew of the requirement for the letter before I went.

Exactly on schedule James IV's passport arrived, and the next day, James III's passport arrived. So it was time to look at buying the airline tickets. The "day before" the passport arrived the prices of the airline tickets shot up tremendously. So I started the waiting game. I checked the prices on Expedia, Yahoo Travel and Delta's web sites each day and some times twice a day. It was amazing the way the prices changed.