Tickets

So M and I sat down last night and started browsing our ticket/airline options. He was reluctant to spend our money on them, because it had to come out of our savings. I told him not to worry our savings are there for the big move, and eventually we needed to purchase the tickets before prices go up. So after much site surfing we decided to go with Alaska Airlines, we didn't have too many options but Alaska definitely looked like a decent airline. I know 'looks can be decieving' and 'never read a book' by it's cover, but this is one thing that has me REALLY nervous. I have never been on a plane before..And in two weeks i will be taking a trip (riding a total of four planes; two by myself) with my dad, step mom, and three sisters. 
One thing I don't care for with Alaska is that we have to pay for any checked luggage, they offer free first and second luggage if you go to/from Guadalajara or Mexico City but M said that doesn't pertain to the rest of the flights that go everywhere else in Mexico. And since everything we can carry will go into our checked luggage we may have a lot of bags...


On another note i am very cheap..I'm not a strict coupon shopper, but i do plan out the best price i can get, but who doesn't now adays? So i purchased the tickets directly from Alaska's website, looked through the site and found that if we left on a different day that we'd be paying around $150 less per person... I opted for the different date. Which now makes our flight day to September 3rd, instead of the originally planned September 6th. And means i spent only $500, so far, on our flight :)