Quote Originally Posted by spongebue View Post
Positive space = confirmed (normal) ticket. Sometimes you're not saving a whole lot on the buddy pass and it's worth it to just buy the ticket. We did that for my FIL when UA was looking a little questionable to go DEN-MSN at the end of this week. Turned out, Frontier cost the same as UA's extended family buddy pass, we just have to pay an extra $25 for a carry-on bag. And now he can stay with us until Saturday night, no hourly load checking and wondering when to send him home.

Well said Sponge...Scuba, sometimes cutting too many corners puts you back in the hole..