With soaring gas prices and airlines still struggling, the summer travel season in the United States is shaping up to be an expensive one. Doesn’t it suck how that works? You save up your vacation time or you are finally done with school and the next thing you know the tickets you could have gotten for peanuts back in February are now through the roof. It happens every year.
Fortunately there are cheapie airlines around that buck the trend. AirTran is one of them. The Little Guys continue to churn out decently priced tickets no matter what time of year it says it is on the calendar. For example, you can fly from San Francisco to Boston for $164 one way. That is really quite good. You can also flee Detroit and go to Orlando for $94 one way, not that I would recommend going to Orlando in the summer. I lived there for a number of years and I sweat just thinking about the heat and humidity.
Anyway, it is worth your effort to check out what AirTran is offering in terms of summer flights. In some cases they even beat Southwest, Jet Blue and the other budget carriers.
You’re probably familiar with a discount airline like Southwest, but you might not be all that familiar with AirTran. After checking out their fall and winter ticket sale, it is definitely an airline worth getting to know. In addition to being very cheap, AirTran offers nice little features like onboard satellite radio to help pass the time while you are cruising at 50,000 feet. AirTran flies to a lot of major airports in the United States and if you purchase a ticket on one of their flights before October 17, 2006, you are going to get a real deal. You won’t find these prices in the major airline search engines, so head on over to the