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

[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).

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

Drive from MHT to BOS? Very easily. It's about 50 miles, all interstate highway. I was assuming that cellio didn't want to rent a car, though, since that would eat up all the savings from flying Southwest from PIT to MHT. One can get a shuttle bus from MHT to the Boston area, but not very close to her destination.

But I do love MHT. They have the nicest TSA agents in the country.

[alaricmacconnal.livejournal.com]

MHT is very nice (I used to travel through there a lot until the direct PIT->BOS flights became cheap). I agree with you about the TSA folks.

Using Southwest, IIRC, involves a connection in PHL or BWI, I don't know about wireless in either of those airports.

[cellio]

Thanks for the MHT tip. As it turns out, the difference in prices isn't enough to make up for the distance (I wouldn't otherwise be renting a car), but it's a good option to know about for other trips.

(Thanks also for the advice about layover time and airport size. That's a good point.)