I dont understand group flights....help

twiggy327

Nearly all of my wedding guests (40ish) will be flying out of Pittsburgh to Key West for my wedding and I want as many of us on the same flight as possible. Ive contacted various airlines about group flights and im still confused. AA gave me a promo code for a wopping 5% off but they cant use it until 4 days before our deaprture date...strange. Anyone have any advice and tips on group travel accomodations?

pbi9994

It's awesome that you even got 5% out of AA! I asked my travel agent about this, and she said that group travel rates are rare these days. You could try going through a TA, but a lot of them can be superstitious, and advise against it. This is all according to my TA, and could be total BS.

WiscDoll322

With your wedding being held in the US, and thus not a really complicated flight arrangement, I honestly wouldn't worry about ensuring everyone is on the same flight. That seems like a lot of stress on you, especially if you have to have a certain number of people book using the code to receive the discount.

You could provide the discount code offered by AA to everyone invited, assuming there is not a minimum number who need to book to receive the discount, but also let people make their own travel arrangements. It's a lot less stressful to do that, believe me! Everyone attending our wedding next weekend in Florida will be flying in. We didn't even think to provide a discount code for any airlines and it all worked out. People made their own flight arrangements and contacted us with questions. On our wedding website, we just provided a list of airports within a 2-hour radius of Tampa. Maybe that's an option for you?

Also, strange that guests can't use the discount code until 4 days before your departure date. I am not a travel agent, but my FI and travel a lot, so my question is, could people actually use the code up until 4 days before your departure date? Perhaps a call AA would clarify, because that seems strange.

Hope that helps!

twiggy327

I feel like a bonehead. I did call last night and the director told me that they can use the code starting october 1st and could travel within a week before or after my wedding date with the code. Ugh! she probably thought I was a wackadoo I started laughing on the phone. There is a 10 ticket min and i have 9 secured so im kind of biting my nails wondering what to do. Ill probably not do anything at all and just list our flight # and time if they want to TRY and fly with us. thanks all!

WiscDoll322

When is your wedding? I would guess you will get at least one more person, if not two, who want in on a 5% discount code for a flight! Any discount for a flight is hard to pass up. It will all work out.