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2018
11
May
Flair Air is offering $2 base fares (real prices, about $70 one way)
11
May
Flair Air is offering $2 base fares on certain routes, including for summer travel.
Here are the real prices, after taxes and fees, and after adding the cost of carry-on luggage ($30 one way), for a more accurate comparison against WestJet and Air Canada's prices...
One way flights from...
Abbotsford to Edmonton - $40
Victoria to Edmonton - $55
Prince George to Edmonton - $65
Prince George to Vancouver - $65
Hamilton to Winnipeg - $68
Calgary to Kelowna - $71
Calgary to Winnipeg - $71
A $2 base fare may sound exciting for marketing purposes, but in reality, most of these prices are actually fairly close to the prices Flair Air has been offering in the past few days, when they were offering flights for $49 each way (after all taxes and fees).
What they've really done is lowered the base fare going in one direction, and raised the price of the base fares coming home.
The end result is that a roundtrip flight with a carry-on bag from Victoria to Edmonton (or vice versa) still works out to $167 roundtrip, which is about the same price they were offering yesterday, when the total price was $49 each way.
Availability for travel
late June, July, August, September, first week of October 2018
How to find and book this deal
1. Go to the Flair Air website
2. Search for a flight on one of the routes listed above.
screenshot from the Flair Air website
Swoop is also offering $8 fares from Abbotsford to Edmonton, including taxes and fees
1. Go to the Swoop website
2. Search for a flight from Abbotsford (YXX) to Edmonton (YEG)
screenshot from the Swoop website
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April
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February
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December
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30
December
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November
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November
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26
September
Don't fall for the '$128 for 2 roundtrip flights' OneStopTravel scam
26
September
Over the past little while, I've had a lot of people ask me about a deal they've seen pop up on a variety of those 'daily deal' type sites (you know the ones, the Groupon-esque clones that were all the rage last year, and initially had some legitimately great deals but have now all turned into a wasteland of spa treatments and massages you can never get an appointment for).
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