As I mentioned in a previous thread, my girlfriend and I came home early for christmas (we stayed in India and Singapore). If we did not get the flight we did on Dec. 13 (our scheduled return flight was Jan. 3, but they pulled some strings and made a change that they normally weren't supposed to do), we would have been in Phuket on Dec. 26. It really makes me wonder if there was a reason that we got that flight that normally we wouldn't have been allowed.