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Get Comfy En Route Down Under With Qantas' Biz Class Sale

Australia seems like a long way from just about everywhere, right? (Maybe not from New Zealand!). So if you want to get there in a bit of comfort, it would be great to splash out on a business class seat. Aussie airline Qantas wants to make this financially easier for us for a while, with a 40% off sale on business class seats from Los Angeles, San Francisco or New York down to Sydney or Brisbane.

Business class is certainly a nicer way to travel on those long, long-haul flights, although the funny thing is that Qantas claims to have invented business class back in 1979; if you prefer to believe Wikipedia, it was actually British Caledonian in 1978.

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Air Asia's Big Sale Makes Us Want To Book Some $17 Flights

One of our favorite low cost carriers, Air Asia, is not just cool because it keeps adding more routes—like Kuala Lumpur to Paris on the cheap and the Indian destinations like Thiruvananthapuram just to name a couple of last week's highlights—but it's also giving us ideas for our 2010 travel plans by holding a big airfare sale at the moment.

For bookings made between now and Sunday, you can get bargain tickets for travel between January 11 and April 30, 2010 for a bunch of Asian routes. The cheapest flights get as low as 19 Ringgit ($5.50) but they're mostly internal Malaysian flights; to get from Kuala Lumpur to further afield, there are deals like KL to pretty much anywhere in Indonesia or Thailand for 59 Ringgit ($17) and KL to Australian destinations for 199 Ringgit ($58). Get booking fast or we might snap up all the seats first.

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· Air Asia [Official Site]
· Let's Go Thiruvananthapuram! [Jaunted]
· Sarkozy Approves Air Asia X's Low-Cost Flights to Paris [Jaunted]

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Southwest's Airfare Sale Will Fly You To Fall Foliage For $59

Oh autumn leaves, how we love thee. We love thee so much that the simple fact that Southwest Airlines used fall colors to illustrate their airfare sale made us perk up. A $59 one-way flight also helps get our attention too, and SWA is offering such deals on routes like Phoenix to San Diego and Chicago to Columbus, OH.

To score the low prices, you must book by October 13 and travel by February 11, 2010. There are black-out days however: Fridays and Sundays, so if you're willing to fly on a Saturday and return later during the week, then you are in a perfect position to reap the benefits of the fall sale.

In particular, we've got our eyes on their two direct routes from New York-LaGuardia to Baltimore for $59 and Chicago for $109. It's still a fresh route and Southwest is still excited about it, and the enthusiasm is rubbing off on us. Time to dream about fall foliage in Maryland and Illinois...

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· Southwest Special Offers [Southwest]
· Southwest Airlines Coverage [Jaunted]

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JetBlue's Sample Sale Will Fly You To Vegas for $24

While JetBlue finally began service out of LAX at the start of the summer, it still pays to fly out of Long Beach. Travelzoo alerted us to a one-day only JetBlue "sample sale" from Long Beach to Vegas for $24 outbound and $29 for the return. The sale is good for Tuesday and Wednesday flights from October 6 to December 16 but you must book by tonight at 11:59pm MDT. Also included in the sale? One way tickets out of Vegas to New York or Boston for $99 a piece.

Speaking of Las Vegas and JetBlue, recently ousted star of "Jersey Boys" at The Palazzo, Erich Bergen, was Twittering from the JFK JetBlue terminal this morning. Now that's he's out of a job, he just may move into the terminal because it has Borders, Jamba Juice, Lacoste and free WiFi. And so much more. But sorry, no stage yet.

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· Sample Sale [JetBlue]
· JetBlue coverage [Jaunted]

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Airlines Slashing Prices Deeper Than Usual For Fall

It's been a rough summer for the airlines and the upcoming fall doesn't look much better. Leisure travel is down and business travel, usually the airlines' bread and butter, is way down. The industry is responding the way industries respond to this sort of thing:

Airlines are cutting fares deeper than usual this fall in an effort to fill seats. American and Southwest both launched fare sales this week, and United is running several sales, too. While it's common for airlines to use discounts to fill planes during the slower fall travel months, the discounts this year are deeper and more widely available than last fall, said FareCompare.com CEO Rick Seaney.

The bargains aren't as enticing as what the airlines were doing right after the recession hit, but they're still objectively deep cuts and much better than anything you could have gotten last year.

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Pay Per Mile With Southwest's 48-Hour Sale

Fall travel just happens to be out favorite kind of travel; it's not too hot, you still don't have to pack a bulky coat, tourist spots aren't as packed, and the colors or autumn leaves are just awesome. Southwest Airlines seems to understand our love for fall, and so they've put all of their flights between September 9 and November 18 on sale for 48 hours only.

Book by end of day on July 8, and snag Southwest seats based on how far you fly; it's a bit like paying per plate at an all-you-can-eat buffet. Flights of 400 miles of less, like BWI to New York-LGA, are $30 each way; flights between 401 to 750 miles, like Las Vegas to Oakland, are $60 each way; and flights more than 750 miles, like Chicago-MDW to Houston-Hobby, are $90 each way.

Taking advantage of their shiny brand new route between New York and Chicago, we double checked to make sure these sale fares stand, and indeed we found roundtrips in late September for $60 each way, with fees coming to a total of $141.20. Just watch out for those Fridays and Sundays; the sale fares exclude these days because hey, an airline has to make a living somehow.

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· Every city on sale for 48 hours only [Southwest Airlines]
· Southwest Airlines Coverage [Jaunted]

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So Over Staycationing; We Want Delta's Sale Fares To The French Riviera

If you've been doing that horrible thing of "staycationing" this summer, then getting cabin fever is absolutely inevitable; we recommend planning a real autumn trip to take the edge off. After all, they say the recession is beginning to end, right?

Airfares too are starting to go up, although this isn't a great thing for travelers hoping to head to Europe after delaying such trips for so long. If places like Nice on the French Riviera and Madrid make you fill with delicious wanderlust and the urge to break out a caftan and your sunglasses, then we recommend checking out Delta's fall sale fares to Europe.

Even though they're priced from $398 without taxes and fees for travel between mid-August and late October, being flexible with dates can help shimmy that price down. And it looks like we're going to have a more expensive airfare fall, so booking as early as possible is always a good idea; it means more time to highlight in your guidebooks.

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· Europe Sale Fares On Delta [Smarter Travel]
· Airfare Sales Coverage [Jaunted]

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JetBlue's Latest Sale Is All About The Beach

In-flight entertainment pioneers JetBlue are offering up a great sale for watching TV in the sky and getting out of town to somewhere warm, breezy, and sandy. The airline’s Life’s A Beach Sale promises to whisk you away to sunny destinations across the Caribbean and Mexico. Most deals are available on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and you need to hurry up, since you have to have things booked by tomorrow.

The very best deals are from Ft. Lauderdale, where you can jet to Cancun or Nassau for only $29 each way. If you prefer the Dominican Republic, that’s a great deal too, starting at only $59 for each leg of your trip.

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Allegiant Makes A Good Case For Florida In The Summer

Florida gets pretty hot and humid during the summer, but the state has great beaches, the best theme parks, and the snowbirds won’t be back for many months. If you can stand the heat, make a plan to visit the Sunshine State and take advantage of The Florida Perfect Excuse Sale. Starting at just $29 each way, Allegiant Air will be happy to whisk you away for some fun in the sun.

Columbia, South Carolina is the only location offering the dirt-cheap rate, but there are many other cities with decent deals. Toledo residents can snag $49 rates if they missed out on the Jet America deals. The same price is available from Roanoke, Virginia and Knoxville, Tennessee.

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Special 'Twares' Have United Airlines All A-Twitter

Are you following us yet on Twitter? We bet you're hooked on Jetblue's feed, what with their almost 545,000 followers. In any case, it might be worth it to check out what United Airlines is quietly tweeting since they've just introduced "twares," or Twitter-specific airfare deals.

According to Today in the Sky, United's first "tware" appeared yesterday just before noon, and featured a time-sensitive fare of $63 each way from Chicago to Washington DC. The sale only lasted for one hour, so the lucky few who obsessively check their accounts and have open travel plans were able to score this first-ever offer from United.

Expect more specials to come down the Twitter vine from United, and you know we're hoping for some more exotic choices. Right now, United's follower number stands strong at 5,304, but if they were to throw out say a roundtrip to Hawaii from Chicago for under $300 all-in, then we'd just sit back and watch that number skyrocket.

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· @UnitedAirlines [Twitter]
· United Takes to Twitter With Special Sale-Priced "Twares" [Today In the Sky]
· United Airlines Coverage [Jaunted]

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Will Flu-Free Guarantees Lure Travelers Back to Mexico?

We're already well acquainted with good weather vacation guarantees, but now it seems that desperate destinations are jumping aboard the no flu guarantee bandwagon.

Desperate to get travelers to again view Mexico as a safe tourism destination, twenty coastal resorts have launched a "flu-free guarantee." All you need do is book an upcoming trip to any of the resorts, which are mostly in Cancun or the Riviera Maya, and if you do happen to get swine flu (and have the bloodwork to prove it), the consortium will pay for the entirety of your next three vacations.

The CDC lifted their travel ban to Mexico last week, and most countries have now resumed flights to the country, although travelers are still understandably hesitant to return south of the border.

So is Memorial Day weekend the time to return to Mexico? The prices say yes. Unlike just about anywhere else in the world, you can book a plane ticket to Mexico right now and still get a cheap fare for this weekend. Searching on Kayak, we found Friday-to-Monday roundtrip flights to Cancun for $281 from New York, $316 from Chicago, and $363 from LA. Get to clicking, and leave those flu masks at home.

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· Mexico resorts offer 'flu-free' deal [USA Today]
· CDC downgrades Mexico travel warning [USA Today]
· Swine Flu Travel Coverage [Jaunted]

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Delta Offers New York to San Fran Flights for $109 One-Way

We were worried that the travel deals we've been seeing all winter and spring would disappear as soon as summer arrived. But as we approach Memorial Day Weekend, the deals are still sticking around, like this one from Delta Airlines which is offering a trip from New York to San Francisco for $109 each way (based on a roundtrip fare.)

Also out of New York's LGA is a flight down to the Big Easy for only $89 one-way. Meanwhile, Atlanta folks can get away to Phoenix for just $109 one-way or they can head to the Motor City for only $69 one-way. Not bad!

Of course there are restrictions, namely that these fares are limited and they must be purchased at least 14 days prior to departure through Delta.com. Tuesdays and Wednesdays will yield the low fares mentioned and you must complete travel by September 14, 2009. The blackout dates are May 22, 25, July 2, 3, 5, and 6. Finally, the last day to book these sale fares is May 18.

And might we add one more restriction? San Fran in the summertime is not warm despite being in the state of California. So pack your sweaters and slacks.

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· Airfare Sales [Jaunted]