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Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Cheap Airplane Tickets

This essentially becomes an extended holiday period," DIA spokesman Steve Snyder said. "In the last couple years, it's really been consistently heavy traffic from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The demand we normally see over Christmas and Thanksgiving we see over the entire summer."

With planes already hitting record occupancy levels, airlines will have little room to accommodate passengers on canceled flights. And some observers fear staffing issues and labor strife could lead to Cheap Airplane Tickets more delays.

Overall, though, flying this summer can be relatively inexpensive vs. driving, especially with gas prices over the $3 mark. Airlines have raised fares numerous times over the past year. But they've also been adding capacity, and some experts say they're having to keep fares in check this summer despite what's expected to be record demand.

Denver is benefitting from a solid mix of discount service from carriers such as Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Ted, an arm of United Airlines. Other low-cost carriers such as JetBlue and Cheap Airplane Tickets AirTran also fly into Denver, although on a limited basis.

"Denver is one of the few places with such a concentration of low-cost carriers," said Ron Kuhlmann, an airline analyst with Unisys R2A in Oakland, Calif.. "This may be the future in terms of where the industry is going, where a lot of the (low-cost carriers) for the first time are in competition with each other."

Heavyweight United also has its second-largest hub at DIA and has said it will respond "agressively" to competition here.

The key to finding low fares this summer is to be flexible. Aside from traveling on non-peak days during the middle of the week, travelers often can find lower fares if they fly to airports near major cities.

A flight to Cincinnati in mid-June, Cheap Airplane Tickets for example, will cost you $489, according to a search on Bestfares.com. But the fare drops to just $158 if you fly into Dayton, Ohio, which is just over 60 miles from Cincinnati.

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