Weekly travel deal: Chicago (again), this time $80 roundtrip
Posted on September 16th, 2009 – 4:41 PMBy Troy Melhus
Chicago seems to be one of the best deals around these days when it comes to last-minute airfare deals.
This week United Airlines is boasting a last-minute airfare deal departing Saturday and returning Monday (or Tuesday) for $96 roundtrip. The fare goes even lower if you wanted to fly to Chicago next weekend: $80.
United has been quite consistent in offering these last-minute deals each week, which this week include fares to Akron ($142), Columbia, SC ($168), El Paso ($172) and several more.
Most of the same cities are available for the same days next week, along with a roundtrip fare to Vail, Colo., for $222.
All those deals and more can be found here:
http://travel.united.com/ube/efares/us/eFares.do
U.S. Airways is also offering a last-minute e-saver to Amsterdam for $618 roundtrip, available through Sept. 21.
That deal can be found here:
http://www.usairways.com/awa/faresale/eSaverIntl.aspx?c=00437_txt_link
As always, lots of fine print applies.
Other online deals spotted this week:
- Travelzoo is promoting an October sale to Hawaii this week here:
http://supersearch.travelzoo.com/?cp=hawaiioctober&catid=1014&destination=HNL
The site says several airlines, including Delta, Hawaiian, Northwest and United are boasting great sale fares to the islands. The sample fare from Minneapolis was $563 roundtrip.
- Sun Country’s fare sale continues this week with fares out of Minneapolis to everywhere from Boston ($198 roundtrip) to Fort Myers to San Francisco ($218 each).
Deals of that sale can be found here:

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