Cabo anyone? Round-trip airfare is only $220

Have you been thinking about a spring trip to Cabo San Lucas? Travelzoo announced flights from Los Angeles (LAX) to San Jose del Cabo (SJD) for only $250 round trip. The travel site’s e-mail newsletter directed us to its new airfare search engine Fly.com. I thought I’d test this deal on Fly versus Kayak to see how they compared.

Fly: What I like about Fly is that it shows side-by-side pricing for both economy and premium seats. It found economy seats for only $250 round trip on Alaska Airlines, but premium fares were $1,058. Note: Fly is still in Beta.

Kayak: Kayak also found fares for $250 on nearly every date in March. But when I clicked the month view back to February, I found tickets for only $220 round trip on American Airlines (Feb. 24-March 3).

I prefer the monthly rate calendar of Kayak to quickly find the cheapest travel date. But I can see how business/luxe travelers would appreciate the business-fare view of Fly, because that would save them time when searching for flights.

– Jen Leo, Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger

[Photo: Cabo San Lucas; Ken / Your Scene, Los Angeles Times]

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This entry was posted on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 1:54 pm by Jen Leo and is filed under Airline travel, Baja California, Business Travel, Cabo San Lucas, Deals, Last Minute, Mexico. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.