Flying or Driving-What are your plans for Charlotte

[Bull Martin]

Yesterday afternoon plane tickets from Orlando to Charlotte were $170 total.  Today they are $240.

I wish I wasn't so tentative yesterday.  Oh, well.  **** it I'm driving.

Gas both ways will be around $110.  Split by 2 and we travel for $55 and have a car up there.

Oh, and the Omni Charlotte Hotel (the team hotel) rooms are $229 a night.  They're still taking reservations.

[SilverBull]

I'm driving, seeing as how I was going to North Carolina mountains at that time anyway and this bowl was gift wrapped for me.  Thanks Lord.

[dabull80]

Crying while I sit at home watching the game on Tv.  Dang In-laws - I love em but don't come visit during Bowl season and wife expects me to stay home.

[Bullshutter]

Opted with flying because I have no experience driving in possible snow...would rather avoid that hassle plus, Charlotte has decent public transportation

[Ricky the Bull]

Jewbull.......

Dec 30th

USAIR-departs TPA around 100p, or so

Dec 31st

USAIR-Depart Charloote @ 550pm or so

**Not sure hotel yet, made reservations at a few different ones & will decide

Just booked the same flights for me and my son.  We want to get back home to celebrate New Year's with the rest of the family.

[SkypointBull]

Flying $225

US Air 12/31 TPA 6:55AM - CLT 8:33AM

US Air 12/31 CLT 8:00PM - TPA 9:45PM

No bags or hotel needed.

[RG]

Dec 30th

USAIR-departs Tampa @ 700pm

Dec 31st

USAIR-Depart Charlotte @ 800pm

[Guest nybullsfan]

If you haven't made up your mind yet whether to fly or drive, you might want to drive.

Body Fell From Plane' date=' Authorities Say

By KATIE ZEZIMA

Published: December 10, 2010

BOSTON — A North Carolina teenager whose body was found in a Boston suburb last month had most likely stowed away inside a plane’s wheel well and fallen as it lowered its landing gear, the authorities said Friday.

The remains of the youth, Delvonte Tisdale, 16, were found in a quiet neighborhood in Milton, Mass., on Nov. 15, below a flight path to Logan Airport.

“It appears more likely than not that Mr. Tisdale was able to breach airport security and hide in the wheel well of a commercial jet airliner without being detected by airport security,†William R. Keating, Norfolk County district attorney, said at a news conference on Friday afternoon.

Mr. Keating said he had alerted federal authorities and the airport in Charlotte, N.C., where the teenager is believed to have gotten on the flight, about the events. While the case is a sad one, Mr. Keating said, it also underscores fears that someone with malicious intent could do the same thing.

“It’s a terrible tragedy what happened to this young man, but if that was someone with a different motive,†he said, “if that was a terrorist that could have been a bomb that was planted, undetected. This is very serious.â€

Mr. Keating said the authorities had searched two airplanes that left Charlotte for Boston on Nov. 15, and found handprints in the left wheel well of a Boeing 737 that was scheduled to leave Charlotte Douglas International Airport at 7 p.m. that day.

“As they looked at the grease, they saw what I describe as lateral impressions that showed there was someone in there. There was a handprint in an area where it ordinarily wouldn’t be,†Mr. Keating said.

“I don’t pretend to tell you how he did it,†Mr. Keating said, noting that Delvonte was an Air Force R.O.T.C. student.

Clothing that matched a description that Delvonte’s family had given the authorities was found in Milton along the flight path, Mr. Keating said, and a plastic card — the type one uses to get into a hotel room — was found shattered.

“The altitudes were very high, and it gets very cold,†Mr. Keating said. “That card was shattered into such tiny pieces that it was consistent with something that had been frozen and shattered.â€

The authorities initially believed that Delvonte had been murdered, and impounded two cars they thought to be suspicious. But in recent weeks, officials began investigating the possibility that the teenager had stowed away on an airplane.

“This was something that sounded quite remote, that someone could breach security aboard a commercial jet,†Mr. Keating said. “Again we look at every possibility.â€

The authorities were at first flummoxed as to how the teenager had made it from North Carolina to Massachusetts so quickly. Delvonte was last seen around 1 a.m. Nov. 15 in Charlotte, and his body was found less than 24 hours later in Milton. A neighbor in the Milton neighborhood reported hearing a loud thump outside around 9 p.m.; the authorities said the plane landed minutes later.

Federal and state authorities continue to investigate the case, Mr. Keating said.

“I suspect,†he said, “that there will be a lot of scrutiny into this.â€

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[Triple B]

If you haven't made up your mind yet whether to fly or drive, you might want to drive.

Body Fell From Plane' date=' Authorities Say

By KATIE ZEZIMA

Published: December 10, 2010

BOSTON — A North Carolina teenager whose body was found in a Boston suburb last month had most likely stowed away inside a plane’s wheel well and fallen as it lowered its landing gear, the authorities said Friday.

The remains of the youth, Delvonte Tisdale, 16, were found in a quiet neighborhood in Milton, Mass., on Nov. 15, below a flight path to Logan Airport.

“It appears more likely than not that Mr. Tisdale was able to breach airport security and hide in the wheel well of a commercial jet airliner without being detected by airport security,†William R. Keating, Norfolk County district attorney, said at a news conference on Friday afternoon.

Mr. Keating said he had alerted federal authorities and the airport in Charlotte, N.C., where the teenager is believed to have gotten on the flight, about the events. While the case is a sad one, Mr. Keating said, it also underscores fears that someone with malicious intent could do the same thing.

“It’s a terrible tragedy what happened to this young man, but if that was someone with a different motive,†he said, “if that was a terrorist that could have been a bomb that was planted, undetected. This is very serious.â€

Mr. Keating said the authorities had searched two airplanes that left Charlotte for Boston on Nov. 15, and found handprints in the left wheel well of a Boeing 737 that was scheduled to leave Charlotte Douglas International Airport at 7 p.m. that day.

“As they looked at the grease, they saw what I describe as lateral impressions that showed there was someone in there. There was a handprint in an area where it ordinarily wouldn’t be,†Mr. Keating said.

“I don’t pretend to tell you how he did it,†Mr. Keating said, noting that Delvonte was an Air Force R.O.T.C. student.

Clothing that matched a description that Delvonte’s family had given the authorities was found in Milton along the flight path, Mr. Keating said, and a plastic card — the type one uses to get into a hotel room — was found shattered.

“The altitudes were very high, and it gets very cold,†Mr. Keating said. “That card was shattered into such tiny pieces that it was consistent with something that had been frozen and shattered.â€

The authorities initially believed that Delvonte had been murdered, and impounded two cars they thought to be suspicious. But in recent weeks, officials began investigating the possibility that the teenager had stowed away on an airplane.

“This was something that sounded quite remote, that someone could breach security aboard a commercial jet,†Mr. Keating said. “Again we look at every possibility.â€

The authorities were at first flummoxed as to how the teenager had made it from North Carolina to Massachusetts so quickly. Delvonte was last seen around 1 a.m. Nov. 15 in Charlotte, and his body was found less than 24 hours later in Milton. A neighbor in the Milton neighborhood reported hearing a loud thump outside around 9 p.m.; the authorities said the plane landed minutes later.

Federal and state authorities continue to investigate the case, Mr. Keating said.

“I suspect,†he said, “that there will be a lot of scrutiny into this.â€

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I don't know about the rest but I plan on flying inside the aircraft, so i think I'm good .... but thanks for the heads up.

[BullTiger]

Driving...

Leaving as soon as I can convince my wife to get her butt in the car and coming back as close to work on Monday as I can. 

24 round trip drive with a 2 1/2 year old. I just hope the snow stays away and he isn't a royal pain in the a$$ all the way there or back. 

Also looked up weather and in the next two weeks they expect the high to range from 59 down to 29.  That means that it could be colder than would be tolerable for a 2 1/2 year old and a wife...

So, how cold would it have to be for you to ditch your tickets and watch the game from a nice sports bar ofter you traveled all of the way to Charlotte??????