Could he not have booked a direct flight, early on? Or, did he not know that he’d be traveling the weekend BEFORE THANKSGIVING....the 2nd busiest travel weekend of the year???
When he flies out, we don’t know how long the assignment will be. A two-day job can easily turn into a week or more, especially if parts need to be ordered halfway into the project or the workload increases. Or a client will call from another state and he detours. The best we can do is make reservations the prior day to completion and cross our fingers that we can get reservations, or that we don’t have to change them again at the last minute. Manufacturers have to keep running even if it’s near a holiday. And he’s one of maybe a dozen who can do what he does.
Over the summer, the airlines were plagued with cancelled flights because of low staffing/limited aircraft, so one time he drove cross-country home from TN, dodging an tornado, Texas Rangers scrutinizing his rental license plates (followed him into the gas station restroom for a ‘where you headed, son’ chat lolol) and a freak northern NM snowstorm on a last-minute detour to another client. I’m surprised the airlines all of a sudden can handle 2 million plus, in just 2 days.