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i was writing about a 2006 trip to italy<\/a> for #indie2012<\/a> and was reminded about how i had to do something i hope i will never have to again:<\/p>\n

i don’t really have any tips on finding bereavement fares (if you’re reading this because you were looking for help, i’m so sorry for your loss *big hug*) other than to be persistent and check all avenues if you have the time. hopefully something cheap will come up.<\/em><\/p>\n

[picking up from where i cut and pasted from the other entry — i decided this deserved its own post:]<\/p>\n

…the only bad part about this experience is that i received a phone call on my last night in milan that my grandfather had passed away and i had to return to los angeles if at all possible that weekend for the funeral.<\/p>\n

i remember frantically trying to find local airline phone numbers, calling them to see what my options were in terms of bereavement fares (pretty much niente<\/em>) and schedules (equally cruddy), and discovering that nothing was cheap and convenient.<\/p>\n

to give you an idea of how whirlwind this was, this all happened on a wednesday night, and i still had most of the day thursday to sightsee. it would have been too expensive to move my flight, so i figured i might as well make the most of it before going home to germany where i was in grad school. i had to be in LA by friday. (i could not fly directly to LA from milan, since i was woefully underpacked for a funeral and prices were crazy expensive as well.)<\/p>\n

i still have the information on my flight from milan back to stuttgart, which corroborates the timing as i remember it in my mind’s eye:<\/p>\n

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By the way, I lived for these one-cent fares as a wanderlusty student!<\/p><\/div>\n

i got back in to stuttgart thursday evening and i\u00a0remember asking about ticket prices at the various ticket counters at the airport. i got sympathetic looks, but nothing really feasible for a student trying to leave the next day.<\/p>\n

back at my dorm room that night, i looked online and stumbled upon a great fare from orbitz (which, by the way, according to my history, was my first purchase from them). $640<\/strong> all in (much less than what i was getting over the phone and about half what they were telling me at the airport, as i recall), leaving in about 12 hours. long story short, thanks to the time difference i made it in time for the viewing on friday and funeral saturday before flying back to school on sunday.<\/p>\n

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