It's almost the 'Winter Weather Delay' season. You know when snow drifts, freezing rain or arctic ice add hours onto airplane schedules or - in the worst case situation - completely cancels your flight.
So now you're stuck sitting in Schenectady instead cruising the Caribbean on a ship that cost you more than this (& maybe next) year's IRA contribution.
There's a way to avoid (or at least minimize) suffering the pain of old man winter's worst - book the earliest flight of the day.
Ok, you might have to be up before the crack of dawn & you might arrive at your vacation spot way before boarding or check in time...
But the plane will usually be there waiting for you - gassed, de-iced, fully stocked, warm & ready - when you roll into the airport.
All you have to do is check in, board it & enjoy chomping the complementary peanuts & coke on the way to a sunny paradise.
Later planes aren't so lucky.
Not only can they be affected by Jack Frost at their take off, but they also are slowed by all of the delays that occurred on your plane's previous flights.
Many a mid day winter traveler has spent a cramped night crunched in an airport spine altering seat waiting for a runway snowplow instead of being bathed by beach breezes while swinging on a hammock.
And - as an extra bonus - usually the 1st flight is the cheapest. You'll have some extra coin to slurp a mai tai or 3.
So, the early bird not only gets the plane, he gets the hammock, sea breezes & a couple of extra drinks, too.
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