Low fare alert! Get to Shanghai next month for under $600!

by Grant Martin on

Wow, I haven’t seen prices to Shanghai this low in a while. Apparently, sales on Delta’s new route to China have been sluggish, so perhaps this is a secret sale to get things kick started. Or maybe someone fat fingered the price feed, but either way, this is a great price.

Availability seems to be from a variety of cities centered around Atlanta, with the lowest prices ringing in at about 580$. Travel can be assorted times in April and the price seems to go up pretty quickly once May rolls around. You can use a flex search on either Kayak or straight on Delta’s website to find the lowest price compared to the best availability.

In case you’re considering jumping on this, don’t forget that you have to get a visa before you go to China, usually in person at the Chinese consulate. This takes time, money and more priority mail envelopes than you think. But for the experience of seeing China’s Gateway to the West this is definitely worth it.

Spirit Airlines’ MILF sale kicks off

by Grant Martin on

It’s great to see that the domestic low cost carriers have finally started stooping down to the international standard. While Spirit Airlines has oft been fond of strange fare sale names and promos, I think this one takes the cake: the Many Islands Low Fares or MILF sale.

My, that’s a strategically coincidental acronym, you say. I personally don’t see any corollaries beyond the innocent M-I-L-F, but in case you’re interested in any disambiguations of the term, I’d check out urbandictionary.

Sprit sales are kind of difficult to tolerate sometimes. On one hand, they have a wealth of dirt cheap (9$ – 10$) one way fares, but they make it near impossible to find a round trip ticket under those conditions. Usually you end up making up any savings from one direction with extra expense in the other direction. But if you’re rife with free time to sift through the fares and travel on odd days of the week, give it a try.

What other sexy things are airlines doing to generate interest? For starters, RyanAir’s got a semi-nude calendar of their flight attendants, and Virgin America brought scores of hot runway models on one of their flights. What’s next?