AIRLINES SERVE UP DEALS FOR THANKSGIVING.Byline: Dan Reed
Daniel A. Reed was a college football head coach at Cincinnati, Penn State, and Cornell. From 1899 to 1900 he coached at Cincinnati, and guided the Bearcats to a 8-6-1 record. Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire Like Thanksgiving feast attendees lucky enough to have a choice between two holiday meats, bargain-hunting holiday travelers now have a choice between two kinds of discounted air fares for travel during Thanksgiving week. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines This article is about the American airline. For the former Japanese airline, see Japan Transocean Air. For the British airline, see Air Southwest. Southwest Airlines Co. rolled out its own set of deeply discounted ``Turkey Fares'' on Thursday for travel Nov. 23 and 24, the Sunday and Monday before Thanksgiving, as well as Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday. Southwest's fares, with prices as low as $31 one way on some of its shortest flights, began appearing on travel agents' computer screens Thursday morning. That's also when most travel agents got their first peek at a different set of Turkey Fares introduced late Wednesday by Fort Worth-based American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the . American's Turkey Fares, which typically carry higher prices than Southwest's, limit outbound out·bound adj. Outward bound; headed away: outbound trains. Adj. 1. outbound - that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships" travel Nov. 24 and Thanksgiving Day, and return travel to Thanksgiving Day and Nov. 28. Based on past holiday travel patterns, those are typically low-demand days for airline seats. By early afternoon Thursday, most other airlines had matched one or both of the Turkey Fare sales. American also lowered the price of its Turkey Fares to match Southwest's Turkey Fares on those routes where they compete head to head. Discount air fare guru guru (g  `r, g r` Tom Parsons Parsons, city (1990 pop. 11,924), Labette co., SE Kans.; inc. 1871. It is a shipping point for dairy products, grain, and livestock. Manufactures include ammunition, wire and paper products, plastics, and appliances. of Arlington, Texas Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas (USA) within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. According to a U.S Census Bureau release, as of July 1, 2006 Arlington has an estimated population of 367,197. , said the holiday fares were not yet available in all domestic air markets, and added that some airlines had matched only one set of fares in some markets while matching the other set of fares in other areas. Parsons, the editor and publisher of Best Fares Discount Travel Magazine, said he was advising his travel club members and visitors to Best Fares' World Wide Web site - www.bestfares.com - to wait a day or two before buying tickets. ``It could even push into the weekend before this whole thing shakes out,'' Parsons said. ``But I guarantee you that if you wait a day or two, whatever is available to you then will be at least the equal of what is available now, and it may be even better. ``Sometimes it's a good idea to jump on a fare sale immediately or you'll lose the opportunity,'' he said. ``Other times, it pays to wait a day or two to see how all the other carriers react. And this is one of those times.'' |
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