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.

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[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...

[cellio]

Thanks -- I didn't know about either of those sites.