Whether you have a limited budget or simply want to get the best deal on a flight, traveling on cheap airlines can save you a bundle on airfares that you can apply to the rest of your vacation. Over the past few years, cheap airlines selling cheap tickets for cheap flights have proliferated — and that’s to your benefit.
More often than not, there’s negligible difference between a coach seat on a cheap airline and one on the Big Six (American, United, Delta, Northwest, Continental, and US Airways) airlines. In some cases, flying a cheap airline — at least one with leather seats, free personal satellite TV, and other perks — is superior to what huge airline corporations offer. When searching for dirt cheap airfares, check the Web sites of low-priced airlines. Some, like Southwest, only sell tickets on their own site. Others offer the best deals to their own customers. And if you buy directly from a cheap airline site, you’ll avoid paying the small extra transaction fee sites such as Orbitz charge.
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JetBlue. When JetBlue took to the skies in 2000, no one expected the airline, with its cheap...