Southwest Airlines airfare discounts
Since the economic times have been affecting every U.S. company, airlines are forced to lower down airfares to encourage people to travel. Southwest Airlines is offering today cheap flights through its “Every city on sale” ticket promo.
Southwest Airlines is giving huge discounts for tickets bought online by midnight tonight, July 8, 2009. For those travelers who have just read this and planning to travel between Sept. 9 and Nov. 18, you still have time to buy your Southwest Airlines discounted ticket fares.
The fare promotion, along with other sales launched by fellow low-fare carriers Frontier Airlines Inc. and AirTran Airways Inc., marked an early – and deep – start to the airline industry’s annual efforts to fill their airplanes in the slower travel period that begins after Labor Day.
Southwest structured its sale based on the distance flown – one-way fares of $30 for trips of up to 400 miles, $60 for 400 to 750 miles and $90 for more than 750 miles. That offers a significant discount from the usual nonsale tickets sold several weeks in advance.
I hope other airlines, like American Airlines Inc and United Airlines will follow Southwest Airlines strategy and offer cheap airfare.