How to use a companion fare if the total fare cost is more than the companion fare limit
"You must buy both tickets in 1 transaction and the purchased ticket cannot be purchased with miles. You'll pay full price (technically a ""paid published coach airfare"") for the first ticket and enter in your discount code for the companion fare which will ring up as $99 + fees ($118 in your example). If the regular price is $500, you'll book 2 tickets for $618 (one fare at $500 and companion fare at $118).     Companion Fare Discount Code Q & A What is the Companion Fare Discount Code that comes with my credit   card?  The Companion Fare Discount Code is offered to holders of the   Alaska Airlines Visa Signature® Card, The Platinum Plus® MasterCard®   and the Visa® Business Card. This Discount Code entitles the   cardholder to purchase one round-trip coach companion fare on Alaska   Airlines from $121 (USD) ($99 base fare plus applicable taxes and fees   from $22 depending on your Alaska Airlines flight itinerary) when   traveling with another passenger on a paid published coach airfare on   the same itinerary, booked at the same time. Mileage cannot be used as   a form of payment, however mileage credit accrual is allowed for both   travelers. Travelers are responsible for all applicable taxes, fees,   surcharges and applicable checked baggage fees. The Companion Fare   Discount Code is not valid with award travel, and cannot be combined   with other discounts. Source: Alaska Air Companion Fair Q&A"
"Are you on Twitter? If so, the first thing I'd do is tweet this question to @Orbitz and/or @AmericanAir (AA). I'll edit it to be a bit nicer english-wise.  Tweeting (or Facebooking or Instgramming or ...) is one of the most effective ways to get customer service in 'edge' cases.  Explain your case in a nice, tight narrative that has the pertinent facts, why you should get an exception.  Social media tends to get results that you can't get just talking on the phone; in part because you're effectively talking with a higher-up person, and because you can make your case a bit more clearly. You can actually tweet this StackExchange question directly, or word it yourself in a tweet/FB post/etc.  On Twitter i'd link to here or somewhere else (too short), with something like ""@Orbitz @AmericanAir, you changed our trip and now it doesn't work with our special needs child.  Any way you can help us out? [link to this q or a blog post somewhere]"".   As far as a merchant dispute; it would realistically depend on the agreement you signed with Orbitz when you bought the tickets.  Likely it includes some flexibility for them to change your plans if the airline cancels the flight.  If it does, and they followed all of their policies correctly, then technically you shouldn't dispute the charge. It is possible that Chase might have some recourse on your behalf, though I don't think this qualifies for Trip Cancellation Insurance (Which you have through your Sapphire card ).  It might be worth calling them, just to see.  In the future, I would recommend booking through their site - not only do you get 25% bonus rewards when you use miles through there, which often is enough to offset the advantages of discount travel sites, but they're quite good at helping deal with these sorts of problems (as Sapphire is one of their top cards)." You typically need to specify that you want the GTC order to be working during the Extended hours session. I trade on TD Ameritrade's Thinkorswim platform, and you can select DAY, GTC, EXT or GTC_EXT. So in your case, you would select GTC_EXT. The total limit book is a composite of all the orders on all of the exchanges. While it's uncommon for a limit order posted beyond the NBBO to fill outside of the NBBO, it does occur. For example, the best ask may be on exchange X, but for some reason the smart order routing algorithm may select exchange Y if it judges the net trade to be less costly, malfunctions, etc, and HFTs will immediately arbitrage the order between two exchanges, or the best order on exchange X disappears causing the order to fill above the NBBO. The system isn't perfect because there are multiple exchanges, but that eventuality is extremely rare with equities since nearly every exchange will have orders posted at the NBBO because exchange equity fee and rebate schedules are extremely competitive, nearly identical.  It is however more common with options since less exchanges as a percentage of the total will have orders posted at the NBBO because of very wide exchange rebate and fee schedules. How a single exchange handles a new order that crosses an existing limit order is already addressed here: How do exchanges match limit orders? If you are careful, you don't need to spend much more than the cruise price.  The cruises I've been on, they biggest extra was soda and alcohol (mainly wine with dinner).  If you are fine drinking water or iced tea, there is no need for that. Food extras, like ice cream at the pool, may be an extra charge as well. The way it works is that your room key acts like a credit card, and gets charged to your room.  Its easy to run up a big bill if you aren't paying attention, so you may want to keep track of it as you go along.  You can also go to the pursers office at any time and find out your current account. Generally, the cruise automatically charges a certain amount per day for tips for your room steward and dining room attendants.  You are expected to tip for spa services (another extra charge) and shore excursion guides.  Shore excursions vary greatly depending on what you are doing.  Maybe $50-$100 per person for a bus tour to much more than that for things like scuba diving, or fishing.  You can also either book tours yourself, or just get off and wander around.  It depends where you are going.  Many times, the ships dock far away from anything you might want to see.  There are generally taxis or shuttles to the tourist places, but that is another charge.  Shipboard internet is generally charged by hour, and quite expensive (several dollars per hour).  Part of the attraction for me is unplugging completely, so I generally don't bother.  On older ships, you probably are limited to the internet lounge.  Some of the newer ships have wi-fi in the state rooms as well. The drinks on board aren't cheap, but not outrageous either.  Probably similar to an upscale club.  They also have a daily drink special, which is cheaper.  Technically, you aren't allowed to bring your own alcohol on board.  If you buy something in a port, you need to check it with them.  This policy may vary by cruise line, but has been true on the Princess and Costa cruises I've been on.  That said, as long as you are low-key, they probably won't know or care. "This is so true. There's always some ""misunderstanding"" at the end, when the quoted price isn't what is requested at the end. This type of thing is what has led me to stay in higher priced lodging and have them arrange my transport. I don't know if it has to be a meter, but somehow demonstrating that it will be a hassle free experience is super important." what's unrealistic? applying a DCF model to the two possible options?  i didn't claim my description of the situation was comprehensive, didn't ask for input as to whether or not i was considering all possible factors.   why couldn't i use a DCF for a personal choice? any why would i use a RFR if the undertaking requires a risk premium? (or at least doesn't have the same risk level) When in doubt, call (the card issuer) and ask. Ask if you overpay your current bill if the overpayment becomes available credit and tell them why you are asking. It can go either way. Transit FSAs have $255 limits for each of {parking, public transit} per month, considered on a monthly basis separately; and that limit applies both to funding and to claims. You may fund your transit FSA with up to $255 per month for each purpose.  You may withdraw up to $255 per month for each purpose.  The amounts each month don't have to match, but they do need to each be under the maximum.   Any amount you spend over $255 for either parking or public transit would need to be funded with post-tax money.  Most transit FSAs have a mechanism for adding a credit card to the account to allow this to be seamless and on-demand (as opposed to be declared in advance). You can change your deduction each month, up to the limit your benefits provider permits (for me for example, I can choose up to the 10th of the prior month what to do). This differs from health care FSAs, which are annual in nature, and must be entirely defined during open enrollment - but as they have annual limits, would allow you to use the full amount even when employed for only half the year. Since the POS machines are tied into the register it would be rather difficult to overcharge with an attentive patron.  They would have to add an additional item onto the purchase in order to increase the total before running the card (very few system allow cashback to be requested from the teller side), and most machines have audible cues every time an item is added.  If you are paying attention to the teller and not talking/playing on your phone (or other distracting things) then I would say the feasibility is probably very low. Except for rare exceptions while traveling I only shop at locations where I can see the total on the register, and make sure it looks correct before handing my card over. This has happened to me several times while trying to travel. See a flight listed for one price, go through the process and it ends up being 50-100 more. Not sure which airlines just in general. I dont see how 2 seperate sites can have the same price problem. and what changes in the 5-10 minutes it takes someone to enter their info? do gas and costs go up that much in 10 minutes? Just like extra ticket fees and everything....i just wish companies would start putting the FULL price up front. extra fees and all. "After learning about things that happened in the ""flash crash"" I always use limit orders. In an extremely rare instance if you place a market order when there is a some glitch, for example some large trader adds a zero at the end of their volume, you could get an awful price.  If I want to buy at the market price, I just set the limit about 1% above the market price. If I want to sell, I set the limit 1% below the market price. I should point out that your trade is not executed at the limit price. If your limit price on a buy order is higher than the lowest offer, you still get filled at the lowest offer. If before your order is submitted someone fills all offers up to your limit price, you will get your limit price. If someone, perhaps by accident, fills all orders up to twice your limit price, you won't end up making the purchase. I have executed many purchases this way and never been filled at my limit price." In some cases, we when we see an opportunity to save our clients money, without risking valuable coverage or diminishing benefits, we make certain recommendations for more affordable life insurance. One of these strategies is laddering (or layering) term lengths, or term maturities. The strategy is simple. While most people who are considering longer terms, such as 20 or 30 year term, purchase a single policy to fit their needs, the laddering strategy has you purchase two policies totaling the same amount of coverage you currently need, but with a shorter length term mixed with the longer term. For example, instead of purchasing a 30 year term for $1 million dollars, you might purchase two policies for $500,000 each, one with a 15 year term, and the other with a 30 year term. The result is typically a savings of 15%-25% on your term life insurance. Just be aware that the plan going in is to let the first policy go (the one with the shorter term length) when its level term has expired. For example in a 15 year term, the premiums will be guaranteed to stay level the first 15 years, and then increase every year thereafter. There is typically a sizable jump in rates in that 16th year. Clients often see rates increase 8-10 times or more. Therefore, it’s important you understand that going in, and realize you will most likely let that first policy go when the premiums increase, leaving you with the second policy through the end of its (longer) level term. You can crunch some numbers with our laddering calculator: https://www.jrcinsurancegroup.com/term-life-insurance-laddering-calculator/ Fare basis is but one component of domestic US air carrier upgrade considerations, and that will always be trumped by status.  A top-tier elite traveling on a discount fare will always be upgraded over someone with no-status flying on a full-fare ticket. The calculation is to figure out how many dollars you get in return for the amount of dollars you spend. In your case, you know you get 1000 points for $1000 dollars, and can redeem one movie ticket for 1000 points. Therefore, Granted that you could also redeem a $8-9 ticket, making your return 0.8-0.9%.  In addition, this can get more complicated for some points cards that may give out free points, and is especially so if there's an intermediary such as AIR MILES, for which points can be earned in numerous ways. To get really nitty gritty, you could to keep a spreadsheet where you list number of dollars spent, number of points gained, number of points redeemed, and value of reward received. Thus, you can figure out exactly what your cost is for each point (second factor from above), as well as the ultimate value of each point with respect to rewards redeemed (first factor). I'm considering doing that myself since I'm prone to spreadsheet addiction, but this method is likely overkill for most points cards. Austin did it while Uber was gone w/RideAustin. A portion of the fares could go to charity as well.  I used the app a few weeks ago (literally weekend before Uber came back)....the app straight up ripped off Uber. It felt like Uber just made this satellite company to still ride share.