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Bestfares: buy Thanksgiving tickets now
Agents might want to advise their clients to buy their airline tickets now if they want to travel next Thanksgiving, says Tom Parsons, CEO of Bestfares.com. He told TravelMole:
“Southwest extended their sale from October 29th to December 11. So now you have 60 US airports you can fly in for as low as $58 roundtrip, or up to $198, with very little blackout times.”
He predicted the other low-cost carriers would also extend their sales.
Mr Parsons said it’s commonly assumed that JetBlue started the current low-cost fare wars with their slashing prices on one million seats.
“They got a lot of attention, and one million is a lot of seats,” he said. But it was Southwest which started the low-cost flurry, he added.
Mr Parsons said when travelers combine all the low-cost routes across America, they have the opportunity to fly to more than 80% of the country at up to 65% of the standard major airline prices.
The larger carriers have responded to the fare wars by also dropping prices, he added.
Report by David Wilkening
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