Starting April 22 you’ll catch trains from Denver’s modern Union Station to Denver International Airport 23 miles northeast of downtown (Photo: RTD)
Denver has always been a very inexpensive city to fly to because of an ongoing fare war between United and Southwest. But since Denver based Frontier has gone “ultra low cost” and SF-based Virgin America has entered the market, we are seeing some outstanding deals from Bay Area airports.
For example, Virgin launched a systemwide fare sale today to several cities, but Denver fares are some of the best. For example, it is offering nonstop round trips SFO-DEN for just $118! Yes, that is roundtrip. It’s good for flights in April and May. While many flights are coming in at $59 each way ($118 round trip), we are also seeing them at $79 ($138-$158 round trip). That’s still a screamin’ deal! Check it out here.
Some other good deals from today’s Virgin sale: SFO-Seattle is just $128 roundtrip for April and May flights. SFO-New York is below the rare $300 threshold at $298 roundtrip on a handful of flights. Hawaii is running below the $400 threshold at $398 roundtrip to both Honolulu and Maui for flights through early June.
See all of Virgin’s sale fares from SFO here. ALSO, be sure to check other airlines that compete on these routes for matching fares.
JetBlue has rock bottom rates to Boston and Las Vegas! (Image: JetBlue)
Another great deal that TravelSkills reader EW found for us: JetBlue’s new Mint class (with lie flat seats!) between SFO and Boston is going for just $986 round trip. It’s rare to see seats at the front of the plane on transcon flights for less than $1,000 so jump on this! JetBlue introduces the posh new Mint service to SFO-Boston on March 24. See the TravelSkills Trip Report about JetBlue Mint class here.
In addition to this phenomenal fare, JetBlue is flying SFO-Las Vegas for just $88 round trip this spring. Find all JetBlue’s deals here.
NOTE: Fares searched March 15 and subject to change
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Nobody will brave the ATL market I guess.
When flying to Western cities from the Bay Area, add in bag fees each way when comparing JetBlue et al to Southwest (and forget Frontier and other ultra-low cost competitors… you don’t get the customer service you don’t pay for). As I have learned from snapping at a low fare without doing enough research, it would be very difficult to find an airline that matched Southwest when adding a fee for _ONE_ bag each way, and Southwest allows _TWO_ free bags each way. The possibility of a cheap upgrade to first class… or least to bulkhead seating (on JetBlue)… does offer a bit of interest vis a vi Southwest (note to Southwest execs… Euro discounter Ryanair has a relatively nice business class).