air fares

[cellio]

When I flew to Boston in early November, I think my round-trip ticket was $120 (not on a discount airline). I'm looking at options for my trip in July and the cheapest tickets are more than twice that, with the non-sucky ones being over $300. What happened? Is that all just summer effect? Oof. (Yeah, fuel prices -- but they aren't that much lower last fall...) JetBlue, by the way, is not competing all that favorably with old-school players like United. I'm using kayak.com to find fares.

Direct flights are even more expensive. Does anyone know the most expedient way to find out which connecting airports have free wireless? So far I've seen JFK, DCA, LaGuardia, and Cincinnati among the options.

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, JFK and LGA don't have free wireless, at least not in any of the terminals I'm ever in.

[alaricmacconnal.livejournal.com]

DCA and LGA do not have free wireless. You can buy a day pass that runs around $7 to $10. I do not know about Cincinatti or JFK. I booked a trip last week for July 16 - 18th and it ran around $180 (combination JetBlue / USAirways) - this was for work. When in July is your trip - if we overlap, would you be interested in meeting for dinner one evening (Mon or Tue)?

[alienor.livejournal.com]

DCA doesn't have wireless, and I wouldn't want to connect there anyway. I've never been in there when it hasn't been JAM PACKED FULL of people.

The only New England airport I've been in recently is MHT, and they have wireless (but I think you could drive from MHT to Boston).

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

I don't recall any of the airports I've used (DC/National or Dulles, BWI Marshall, Boston/Logan, Atlanta/Hartsfield mostly) having free wireless.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

Oh, and consider the length of the layover vs the size of the airport... 45 minutes in Phoenix is JUST enough time for me to grab food to carry onto the plane and run across 2 terminals to board my next plane. PHX has wireless, but (unless we get delayed) I never get a chance to use it.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Also consider farecast.com and farecompare.com...

Personally, I put about a 50 dollar premium on direct flights, and about a $20 premium on going in and out of Logan. If it goes past about $75 round trip, I start making changes...