Thanksgiving plans with the folks, check. Patiently waiting for a drop in Thanksgiving airfares has paid off. I just bought a roundtrip ticket (Washington National to SFO, departing the day before the holiday and returning the following Monday) for $149.50 total on Continental. Rock on. Can’t do any better than that. Seriously, that’s definitely the least I’ve ever paid to fly coast to coast. And that fare seems to be valid on travel way into 2005. So anyone else with flight plans between Washington and San Francisco, you can find the fare at the Continental website. (It’s also available at the major travel sites like Expedia and Orbitz, but they charge extra service fees of $5 or so.) I hate to sound like a commercial, but as someone who watches airfares like the stock market, I’d say act now.
By the way, I usually start with the “Best Fares” tracker on My Yahoo (which I’ve set up as my browser’s home page). Seems to work pretty well.
I’m so jealous. I just dropped $400 for a round-trip Thanksgiving ticket from Boston to Omaha. Grrr.
Wow that’s an amazing to SF, and lucky you that your folks live there…
Airfares are crazy low. I’m paying $88 from DC to Ft Lauderdale on bankrupt USAirways next month. Hope they’re still around.