Airline Tickets

I actually bought my tickets awhile ago, but I initially had a lot of problems finding a reasonably priced ticket to Yemen, so I thought I would write a little about it. For me, I found that buying two separate tickets for the trip ended up saving me a couple hundred dollars compared to buying one full ticket. So I ended up buying a Seattle-Chicago-London ticket through Kayak.com (which is the coolest airfare search online) and then a London-Dubai-Sana'a ticket from Emirates Airlines. Buying directly from Emirates saved a few dollars, but they also had more flight options, and I elected to take a flight with a 24-hr layover in Dubai for about $30 more than a short connection because I will be able to meet up with my friend Abdullah who is studying English here at UW and will be returning to visit family between quarters. So hopefully he will be able to show me around to all the big sights and scenes in Dubai, and I am really looking forward to visiting it. Also with the two separate tickets situation it allows you to coordinate long visits at the intermediate city if you should so choose. However you do run the risk of having part of a flight delayed and then running into problems arriving in time for your other ticket, which I am hoping to avoid by allowing loooong layovers in London. But hopefully the flights will go smoothly, no luggage will be lost, and the SIAL staff will be waiting for me at the airport.