Travel Ideas

[SimpsonElmwood]

Fellow Cat Fans:

I have been playing around with flight options since last night's loss. There are too many possibilities to cover all bases, but as @cedricmelons pointed out, we are now in the "24 hour window" in which reservations can be made and cancelled. I've made provisional bookings to the two most distant locations for me - Sacramento (SMH) and Denver.

If flights are expensive, consider locations within driving distance (max 3 hours):

• Greensboro: RDU CLT
• Birmingham: I will fly into Nashville
• Orlando: Tampa, Sarasota and others if you want to avoid MCO
• Columbus: Cincinnati and Cleveland
• Des Moines: Kansas City
• Albany: EWR BOS

Hope as many Cat fans as possible can make it. Go Cats!!!

 

[NUCat320]

ATL is slightly closer to BHM, though a less competitive air traffic market. But you pick up an hour, as BHM is central time.

 

[NUcats92]

Would love to know what is our most likely scenario on where we fall? I’ll be in Orlando next week would buy a ticket on a whim never been to an NCAA tournament game?

 

[CappyNU]

Fellow Cat Fans:

I have been playing around with flight options since last night's loss. There are too many possibilities to cover all bases, but as @cedricmelons pointed out, we are now in the "24 hour window" in which reservations can be made and cancelled. I've made provisional bookings to the two most distant locations for me - Sacramento (SMH) and Denver.

If flights are expensive, consider locations within driving distance (max 3 hours):

• Greensboro: RDU CLT
• Birmingham: I will fly into Nashville
• Orlando: Tampa, Sarasota and others if you want to avoid MCO
• Columbus: Cincinnati and Cleveland
• Des Moines: Kansas City
• Albany: EWR BOS

Hope as many Cat fans as possible can make it. Go Cats!!!

I might be wrong here, but is the rule 24 hours or is it "must be cancelled by 11:59pm on the following day"? Because if it's the former, we aren't there until about 6 pm tonight.

 

[SimpsonElmwood]

I might be wrong here, but is the rule 24 hours or is it "must be cancelled by 11:59pm on the following day"? Because if it's the former, we aren't there until about 6 pm tonight.

This is based on personal experience with United and research on the other airlines. The 24 hour period actually started last night at midnight your local time and ends tomorrow at 11:59 local time.

If you want to be safe, you can book after 6 but I don't think it will matter.

Another way to do it is to book with FF miles because you can always cancel those.

Looking ahead to next week seems more productive to me than ruminating about "what could have been" last night. Continue to pound the Rock. Go Cats!

 

[Secho99]

Would love to know what is our most likely scenario on where we fall? I’ll be in Orlando next week would buy a ticket on a whim never been to an NCAA tournament game?

If we're a 7 seed as currently projected, then it comes down to who the 2 seeds are because they will get to play closest to home.

If Arizona and UCLA both stay on the 2 line, they are both likely to go to Sacramento.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with Texas. If they move up to a 1 and Purdue loses to PSU and falls to a 2 we wouldn't be allowed to be the 7 seed in their pod. Then it's who's the other 2 seed. Baylor? Marquette?

But then what if we end up with a 6 seed? Or drop to an 8? So much unknown still.