Saturday, November 15, 2008

Southwest Airlines Fare Sale

Southwest Airlines announced a nationwide fare sale Tuesday, with a Thursday deadline to purchase.

It appears from Southwest Airlines' Web site that you can travel from Dallas to the far ends of its system for no more than $109, plus taxes and such, depending on the day. Don't expect the cheap fares to still be available around Christmas to Orlando, for example.

The sale is good for travel between Dec. 2 and Feb. 11.

As Tom Parsons of Bestfares.com notes, we haven't seen many fare sales from Southwest lately. It has been nearly six months, he said.

"I have been monitoring Southwest Airlines airfares for over 27 years and have seen Southwest avoid a nationwide airfare sale for about six weeks, usually between Memorial Day through the 4th of July," Mr. Parsons says, "but to hold out on a system-wide airfare sale for almost six months is historical."

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