The AFC Championship game is not sold out yet

[MJS]

Didn't we have a thread about them selling slow? Now I don't know what to believe...

[C.Biscuit97]

I’ll be honest as someone who has season tickets. If the Bills make 7 straight championship games, I would be good watching a few not at the stadium. 
 

 

[scuba guy]

1 hour ago, LabattBlue said:

You are flying from a small market to a mid-size market on two days notice.   What did you expect price wise?  $79 each way?

Nope but empty seats in a plane don't pay the stock holders

[Mr Info]

20 hours ago, boyst said:

Buy a ticket at a low price now, or just before kickoff to see the beginning of the game. 

 

You will still pay for that ticket and it will all be there, it's your ticket still. But watch for tickets during the game on Ticketmaster or StubHub because they will fall in price as the price drops. On Ticketmaster any verified tickets are like on StubHub. You can set them to manage the price for you. The original game tickets will fall in price as well. And since the market is oversaturated you will be able to get cheap tickets as an upgrade. But you don't get your original money back 

 

I've done it before where I bought $30 nose bleeds at the start of the game and watch the beginning and then bought $14 upgrades to be on the 30 it rows up 

 

This works because some people are stubborn or stupid and do not list their tickets at the appropriate price. So, some schmuck thinks he's selling his face value tickets for $450 for $800 to make a big profit.  He will refuse or forget to drop the price until it's too late and he's not lowered it. He then sets it to be auto managed and the price plummets. 

If there was another person or two I'd rent a car and drive.  If simply another person and managed right if fly to STL from Greensboro (cheaper than CLT or RDU despite the flight going gso-clt-stl).

 

But it's a car rental driveable game - 16 hour one way. 

Why not consider Omaha instead? It’s about the same distance & might be a little closer.

Hope you and others can make it. Certainly a bunch of machinations to travel & get tix. I am a STH in central VA so familiar with exploring alternatives with travel. Expensive getting last minute flights so already booked our Big Easy travel before flight pricing becomes nuts. Can always cancel but hoping I don’t have to. 

[LabattBlue]

26 minutes ago, scuba guy said:

Nope but empty seats in a plane don't pay the stock holders

They count on people who must travel last minute(death of a family member, work, other emergency), and pay through the nose.  
 

 

I agree with you, but the airlines would rather fly with empty seats vs selling them discounted last minute.  

[Just Jack]

7 hours ago, NyQuil said:

Just checked Orbitz, $1100 to fly out of Rochester or Buffalo, either Friday or Saturday and return Monday.

 

I just checked again, my preferred airline is Delta.  Syracuse to Kansas City, Saturday out, return Monday, is $3,000.  Switch to flying in and out of St Louis, a little over $400.  

[Captain Hindsight]

4 hours ago, boyst said:

fly to STL.

 

if a group of enough people get together to meet at STL - get a rental - drive over from there (4 hours) and back spending the night in STL briefly before flying home Monday it would be much cheaper.

 

I am open for it. The realistic expectation would be fly in late Saturday - stay in St Louis Saturday night and drive to KC Sunday morning. Drive back immediately after the game to St Louis to be back by 1:30-2am and fly out Monday.

 

Many flights back to areas leave quite early - St Louis is a popular airport - so spending the night at the airport is also an option to avoid a 3 hour hotel room.

 

Rental midsize would be $100ish

 

supply and demand and close to the flight date - this isn't corporate greed. it is economics.

Do you really want to be in a 4 hour car ride with whatever TBDer shows up? Have you read some of these threads?

 

[Mango]

Prices are dropping and dropping quick, just like they always do for nearly every venue in the US. 
 

Those Ticketmaster prices are insane. I can find tickets much cheaper. I logged into their “presale” to take a look and they were 2x the secondary market in some cases.

For reference, I likely won’t buy my ticket until I get off the plane in St. Louis on Saturday. And even then I might keep waiting. 

The ticket game is broken and needs to be fixed. But it can also be played. 

[boyst]

16 minutes ago, Captain Hindsight said:

Do you really want to be in a 4 hour car ride with whatever TBDer shows up? Have you read some of these threads?

 

The question to be who should volunteer to ride with me... And that joy ride.

 

But, yeah, yolo.