Air Fare Deals

Airlines offering Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals

(Updated Friday a.m. November 24.)

Here’s what I have so far from airlines offering Black Friday /Cyber Monday deals.  I’ll update as I get more and please let me know if you see something that should be added.

Air New Zealand has a Cyber Monday deal promising up to $400 savings in Economy and Premium Economy fares from US to New Zealand and up to $1,000 savings for business class fares.

Alaska Air is promising to roll out deals on Black Friday – November 24 and on Cyber Monday, November 27. And keep in mind that during ski season your Alaska boarding pass gets you free ski passes at many destinations and free wine tasting and wine shipping in the northwest.

American Airlines Vacations is having a Black Friday sale with prices good through Nov. 29. Use code BF100 for discounts on domestic trips and BF150 for discounts on international vacation packages. United Vacations is touting big discounts as well.

Cathay Pacific’s sale is live now and runs through November 29 for travel from January 1 to May 23, 2018 with deal to Hong Kong, Taipei, Manila, Tokyo and several other cities in Business, Premium Economy and Economy class. Use code HOLIDAY to add savings to vacation packages.

Delta Air Lines posted deals for Cyber Monday.

Fiji Airways has a Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal promising up to $600 savings on flights from LA and San Francisco to Honolulu, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand.

Spirit Airlines claims it is offering super deals for the next three days (through Sunday, Nov. 26) for customers who use the code 90PCT on its site.

Southwest Vacations has Black Friday offers for $125 off domestic and $250 in international destinations.

United Airlines – keep an eye on their site on Monday.

WOW Air  has some of the tantalizing $99 fares on their site and promises more on “Purple Friday.”

Check back for other offers as they roll out and look here for deals on lodging and attractions.

JetBlue boosting Boston service. Now: Atlanta

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JetBlue, already the largest airline at Boston Logan International Airport, is ramping up service there a bit more with the announcement of new service to Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport beginning on March 30, 2017.

This will be JetBlue’s 63rd nonstop destination from Boston –(the most destinations of any airline at Boston Logan, the carrier notes) – and with it comes an introductory one-way fare of $47 – starting today.

In addition to Boston-Atlanta flights, JetBlue will be adding service between Atlanta and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood, New York JFK, and Orlando.

Wait – there’s more:

In addition to the flights between Boston and Atlanta, JetBlue also today announced some added flights out of Boston, including a fourth daily roundtrip Mint flight between Boston and San Francisco International Airport (SFO), starting July 15, 2017, and year-round service between Boston and Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport (MBJ), which currently operates as seasonal service.

JetBlue is also expanding its seasonal service between Boston and St. Thomas’ Cyril E. King Airport (STT) to year-round service.

Cyber Monday airfare deals to get now

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Several airlines rolled out sales on Black Friday that continue through Cyber Monday (and maybe beyond.) Other airlines have teased about their sales but are waiting until Sunday or Monday to roll them out.

If you’re planning a trip, check these out.

On Black Friday Emirates announced a two-for-one round-trip airfare sale for travel out of its 10 U.S. gateways Chicago (ORD), Boston (BOS), San Francisco (SFO), Los Angeles (LAX), Seattle (SEA), Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW), Houston (IAH), Washington (IAD), Orlando (MCO), and New York (JFK).

The sale fares apply to economy class bookings for travel from January 9 through May 6, 2016.

Details and restrictions on the Emirates sale here.

Cathay Pacific’s Black Friday sale of up to 50 percent off prices on economy fares from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Boston to Asia will be available through December 4, 2015.  They’re also throwing in 1,000 bonus Asia Miles for each booking.

Etihad Airways is offering a CyberMonday deal of 25 percent off fares in economy, business and First Class from the US to a wide variety of destinations. The sale is good through November 30 for travel from January 1 through June 30, 2016.  More details here.

And Alaska Airlines will be kicking off its Cyber Monday sale on Sunday evening at 5 p.m. PST. All they’ve said so far is that the sale will include “some of the airline’s best deals of the year.”

Valentine’s Day: Fly with your sweetie for $1

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My household already has a holiday plan for Valentine’s Day, but if reservations weren’t already made I’d be looking closer at this offer from Turkish Airlines, which is good for the entire month of February.

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Through January 17, 2015, passengers who purchase one ticket can get the second ticket for just $1 for travel between February 1-28, 2015 from any of Turkish Airlines’ six U.S. gateways: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Houston and Boston to destinations that include Paris, Venice, Vienna, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, Berlin and London.

For booking this deal, contact a Turkish Airlines ticketing agent.
Restrictions seem straightforward and require that both passengers travel together for the entire itinerary.

Which is the point of Valentine’s Day adventures, right?

Travel deals for Black Friday & Cyber Monday

Home shopping but dreaming of travel? Here are some of the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals that might get you going.

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AIRLINES

Air Canada has a long list of Black Friday fare specials available now through November 30.

Cathay Pacific kicks off its Black Friday fare sale on Friday at midnight EST, promising deals from all its US gateways (SFO, LAX, ORD, EWR, JFK, BOS) to Asia – plus a sweepstakes.

Alaska Airlines‘ most popular fare sale is Cyber Monday, and they’ll probably offer a preview a day before.

From now through December 2, 2014 Airberlin is offering $499 roundtrip flights (including taxes) starting from Chicago, New York and Miami to many cities in Europe for travel January 12 to March 22, 2015.

LAN and TAM have something planned for Cyber Monday and it’s likely other airlines will jump in with offers as well, so check around.

HOTELS

HotelTonight, which recently expanded its offering from day-of bookings to 7-day-in-advance deals, is offering $7 hotel rooms on Black Friday starting at 7 a.m. local time, till the available inventory sells out, which should be pretty quickly.

On Black Friday Expedia.com is offering 90% off a limited quantity of select hotels in New York, Hawaii, Las Vegas, Cancun and San Francisco. The offer will be avaiable from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. PST. Expedia will also be offering a $50 coupon off Expedia rate hotels throughout Friday, as well as some Cyber Monday deals.

Many individual hotels, as well as chains large and small, will be offering Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals as well, so if you’ve got a destination in mind, be sure to poke around for lodging deals in that city or region.

Provenance Hotels, with a portfolio of 7 highly individual properties in Portland, Seattle and Nashville, for example, is giving each hotel’s Facebook and newsletter fans 25 percent off the best available rates through March 31, 2015 as part of a Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotion. (Sign up before Friday to make sure you get the mailing.