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[quote user="Phoebe Vet"] I don't consider wanting to take a flight next week and return a week later to be "last minute walk up".  Nor do I believe having to make your travel plans more than a month in advance to be "convenient travel", and is also rarely the case for business people. You most certainly did get searched, what you mean is you didn't get singled out for an additional, more intensive search.  Having to empty your pockets and put your carry on items through an x-ray machine most definitely is "getting searched". I did not search multiple airlines, I just picked the carrier that provides 90% of the flights from here, but I did choose the non refundable coach fare from the airline.  There were fares for the same trip that were well over a thousand dollars. [/quote] I understood from your first post that the trip was from DC to NYC.  U.S. Airways does not provide 90% of the flights between the nation's capital and NYC.  It is as you claim the dominant carrier out of Charlotte.  Sorry if I misunderstood your initial post.   I spent more than 40 years working for big corporations.  On rare occasions we had emergency travel, which meant that we had to take the walk-up fares, but 98% of the time we had two to three weeks to plan our travel.  That's what effective management required.  The fares 14 to 21 days out are approximately the same as they would be for 30 days away.  I traveled extensively whilst I was working, including more than 22 trips to and from Australia.  I have got a pretty good idea how to navigate the commercial airlines.
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