Jeffrey Altman wrote:
Just to add my experience. I find that in order to get
better airline rates I am forced to travel into town on
Saturday. So I'm in town on Sunday with little to do
other than catch up on work that really should have been
done before I arrived. So maybe doing more on Sunday
would be a possibility.
The problem with Friday is that after having spent a week
at IETF I really want to either get back home or to my
weekend destination at a reasonable hour. That usually
means getting on a plane by 11am if not earlier. So
regardless of how important the Friday meeting is, I
probably won't be attending it.
I agree with Jeffrey here. I was just looking into booking flights for
Minneapolis:
Sacramento to Minneapolis, no connections:
- Arrive Minneapolis Sunday afternoon, leave friday afternoon: round trip $1049
- Arrive Minneapolis Saturday evening, leave friday morning: round trip $289
SAME AIRLINE (Northwest), same planes.
In SLC, the meeting I was in finished early and I was fortunate enough to fly
standby and get home reasonably early, but if you have to stay at the hotel
until noon, you are going to make it home very late that friday night and be so
tired that your saturday is shot.
Michel.