Unlike some airlines, United was not allowing rescuers to fly for free. While good Samaritans flying on Southwest and other airlines got free tickets, Kluttz paid for his full fare.
Sandra Campbell, a spokesperson for United Airlines said that free plane rides were being given out according to the Red Cross' needs.
"United is participating through the local Red Cross. You'll have to talk to them to find out specifics," she said.
Vita Poole, a representative of the local Red Cross chapter, said that they were not giving people free plane rides to Oklahoma because they had not been asked for volunteers.
"The way it works is the local Red Cross chapter makes an assessment of what their needs are from the other chapters," she said. "In the case we were not asked to provide volunteers."
In order to become a volunteer, Kluttz needed time off from his job at Harvard.
He departed at 6:15 a.m. Thursday morning. He had Thursday and Friday off from his job as a University guard and called his supervisor at Harvard, Deanno Bavarro, Friday afternoon to ask if he could take of the weekend without pay. Bavarro allowed him the time off and told him to tell the director of security, Calvin Cantor, on Monday.
Cantor did not return repeated calls yesterday and no information could be obtained on whether the guard would actually be docked the two days pay.
According to Kluttz, though, the department has been very supportive of his decision.
"When I showed up on Monday everybody knew," Kluttz says. "This is a police department. They knew exactly what I was doing."
If money had not been an issue, however, Kluttz says he would have stayed as long as he could be of service.
Now, Kluttz is back at work and has resumed his daily routine. Still, he says, his life will never be the same.
"I don't know whether I'll be able to deal with this in the long run," Kluttz says.
As emotionally trying as the work in Oklahoma City was, Kluttz said leaving was even harder.
"If I didn't have to come back here and pay my rent, I never would have left," he says. "I'm sorry that I had to leave."
"By the time on I got to Chicago [a stop on his Sunday return trip to Boston], I couldn't even look at little children. Everything felt like I was on another planet," Kluttz says.
And since he got home, he said dealing with his time in Oklahoma City has not gotten any easier.
"I've had a very hard time turning it on the TV for any length of time. The only reason I turn it on is that I hope to see they found someone alive."