Southwest Airlines Los Angeles (LAX)-Fort Myers, Florida airfare deal

Deal: Southwest Airlines is offering a $198 round-trip fare — $99 one way — for flights between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW), which touts itself as the gateway to Fort Myers and Florida’s Gulf Coast.

Details: The special requires a 21-day advance purchase and ends Dec. 16, 2008. It also requires Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday travel. Availability may be limited.

Contact: For details and to make reservations, see Southwest Airlines’ website, www.southwest.com, or call (800) 435-9792.

More airfare deals: See Page L9 of our Sunday print Travel section tomorrow for more domestic and international airfare deals researched Thursday, departing from LAX, Long Beach (LGB), Burbank/Bob Hope (BUR), Orange County/John Wayne (SNA), and L.A. Ontario (ONT) airports.

Sample domestic fares (including sales tax but not fees), with highlights in bold, include:

Atlanta (from $358 from LAX, $378 from SNA), Chicago ($298 from LAX and SNA, $338 from BUR and ONT), Denver ($198 from LAX), Honolulu ($430 from LAX), Las Vegas ($138-$158 from all SoCal airports), New York-Newark, New Jersey ($398 from LAX, BUR and SNA, from $417 from ONT), Phoenix ($128-$138 from all SoCal airports), San Francisco ($138 from LAX), Seattle ($208 from LGB, $218 from ONT, $228 from LAX), Washington, D.C. ($318 from LAX).

Sample international fares from LAX, omitting any taxes or fees, include:

Auckland, New Zealand ($1,538); Hong Kong ($1,034); London ($398); Cabo San Lucas, Mexico ($318); Seoul, South Korea ($936); Sydney, Australia ($1,378); Vancouver, Canada ($364).

[Source + screen shot: Airfarewatchdog.com]

[Photo: VisitFlorida.com]

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