Milwaukee From $168, Round Trip

Got any peeps in Milwaukee? If you have any interest in visiting the city, now might be a good time to book.

If you’re flexible about travel dates, there are round-trip fares from Bradley as low as $128, coming out to $168 with taxes and fees, from Delta, Midwest and American. Many other cities around the Northeast have similar fares.

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Continental To Charge For Exit Rows

Continental Airlines will begin March 17 to charge a fee for passengers who sit in exit rows that provide extra leg room, as the Chicago Tribune reports.

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More Flights, Lower Fares To Europe, Costa Rica

American Airlines will add flights in April between New York and three destinations: San Jose, Costa Rica; Madrid; and Manchester, England.

I see some pretty good fares this spring on all three of those routes, which is probably not a coincidence. Any increase in supply can push prices down in the ultra-competitive airline business.

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Ski Time: Low Fares To Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Fares to Jackson Hole from northeastern airports typically run over $600 during ski season, but there is a limited opportunity in March to get a round-trip fare of $329, taxes and fees included, from Bradley.

Alerted by Airfarewatchdog, I checked out the fares on Kayak and FareCompare, and here’s what I found:

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The Latest On Checked Bag Fees

George Hobica over at Airfarewatchdog.com has updated his very handy chart of bag fees on domestic airlines.

Still free for the first bag: Southwest and JetBlue. Still free for the second bag: Southwest.

Keep this in mind when you compare airfares.

A Graphic Look At Seasonal Airfares

Just on a whim I took fare information from farecompare.com and put it in a chart.

This shows the lowest available round-trip fare between New York and Barcelona as of today, by month over a 10-month period. The shape of this is, I believe, pretty standard for transantlantic fares.

 Kind of explains the whole idea behind traveling on the spring and fall shoulder seasons, doesn’t it?

American Airlines: Give Us $8 Or Freeze

Some days it’s hard to say which airline I hate most, but today I’m going with American Airlines.

American is going to start charging $8 for a blanket and pillow, as the Dallas Morning News reports. You get to keep the blanket and pillow. Woo-hoo. Because clearly the problem is not that airliners are cold and uncomfortable. It’s that we don’t own enough cheap bedding.

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Airfare Deals For Seattle

Now might be a good time to book a trip to the Pacific Northwest. It seems that airfares to Seattle are down all over.

Round trips between Boston and Seattle can be had for as low as $207, all taxes and fees included. From Bradley it’s $238.

These fares are available on several major airlines from several different cities through May 26. Seats are limited, of course. Availability looks best on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Seattle can be a pricey city, but I’m seeing some deals for hotels, particularly around the airport. Priceline bidders are reporting successful offers for upscale hotels around the airport as low as $40 and in the city from $75 to $100. Travelzoo also has a nice $119 weekend deal at the upscale boutique Hotel Andra, about half off the regular rate.

Those Cheap Fares To Europe? Meh.

British Airways is advertising fares as low as $219 between New York and London. Exciting? Only slightly.

That’s a one-way fare, and here’s the fine print:  Government taxes and fees of approximately $165 plus a $2.50 September 11th Security fee are extra. 

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Spirit Airlines Outdoes Itself

Spirit Airlines, apparently eager to stand out for something other than crappy customer service, has apparently decided to distinguish itself with crude, sophomoric sexual jests.

Its latest ad campaign is worse even than the much-maligned MILF campaign. It’s just too pointless and stupid to repeat here but go ahead and have a look if you’re curious. It’s not even funny.

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