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

[alaricmacconnal.livejournal.com]

At least in Windows, if you bring up the list of available wireless networks each "network" will have an icon associated with it. If it says "Computer to Computer" (picture of two computers), it is probably someone sitting with a computer.

At BOS (Logan), the legitimate network specifically pops up a message warning about "Free Wireless" networks when you connect to their website.

[cellio]

Thanks for the information. I wonder what the Mac equivalent is. I wonder if anyone who knows is still reading comments. :-) (My laptop is actually a Mac, but that's my only exposure to the OS and I don't know a lot about it yet.)