With Thanksgiving only a few weeks away, it’s not too late to blow off the family and head over to Europe instead.  Gate1 has a bunch of good deals on travel that week:  4 Night London air/hotel packages start at $499, Budapest at $629, Florence at $599, and  Paris at $569.  Other cities are available.  [...]

US Helicopter, the company that flies passengers from Manhattan to JFK and Newark airports, is now offering trips for $99 each way through the end of October (normal fares are $159/$169 each way).  A cab to Newark with tax, tip and tolls will run you $60, and a car service runs about $20 more, so [...]

JetBlue wants to give you some money.  Sort of.
What they really want to do is to get you to fly during the slow September and October season, so they’re giving $50 vouchers when you buy a roundtrip ticket between now and September 18th for travel through October 14th.  You can use the vouchers for travel [...]

Since Spirit has invaded American’s south Florida turf, AA has launched a number of fare sales designed to annoy them.  They announced another yesterday, including these fares:
Fort Lauderdale or Miami to:
Nassau, Bahamas: $34Port-Au-Prince, Haiti: $69San Pedro Sula, Honduras: $59Managua, Nicaragua & San Jose, Costa Rica: $69
Fares are good midweek through December (for the most part).
To [...]

Via Frommers:
SmarTours has a great deal on a 10 day package to China.  $799 gets you a flight from San Francisco to Beijing, 5 nights hotel in Beijing, a flight to Shanghai, and 4 nights hotel in Shanghai.  You can fly from New York for an extra $100.  I’d say that’s a bargain.  Prices are [...]

American Airlines has launched a real live fare sale (not one of those so-called fare sales where the fares aren’t any better than usual) between south Florida and Latin American and/or the Caribbean.  How cheap?
Miami - San Pedro Sula, Honduras is $49 each wayto Nicaragua?  $59Guatemala? $69Costa Rica? $69
Whew, they sure are annoyed with Spirit.
Fares [...]

Frommers has a couple of great deals this week:
Foreign Independent Tours is offering a 5 day air/hotel package departing New York to Cairo, Egypt for $999.  Airfare alone is usually more than $800.  Departures are only December 1-12.
Air Tahiti Nui is offering a $575 round trip fare from Los Angeles to Paris for fall and [...]

(Thanks to Frommers for the heads up):
Still looking for that cheap vacation to Paris?  You probably won’t beat this:  Tourcrafters is offering a 3 night package to Paris, including air from New York and room at the Holiday Inn Bibliotheque for a ridiculous $389.  The price is good November 15 through March 15 (excluding Xmas [...]

Zoom Airlines launches service today between New York (JFK) and London Gatwick, and fares are quite cheap.  They seem to start at about $77 to London and $199 back — about $435 including all taxes for summer travel.  That’s about half what others are charging.  Premium Economy fares (about 36" of legroom) are in the [...]

Most so-called "sales" the airlines throw are complete nonsense.  This one is not:
American Airlines has $78 and $98 round trip flights every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday through mid-November from Ft. Lauderdale and Miami to a bunch of Caribbean islands, as well as Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.  Oh, and they’re throwing in triple miles [...]