Flight tips

Fortunately for the procrastinators among us, there's still time left to score lingering deals on cheap flights during Christmas and the holidays. But the window to book the most affordable flights for the 2024 holiday season—including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s—is rapidly closing.

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Frontier Airlines is giving a salute to service.  The budget airline has a special Veterans Day promotion, with a 50 percent discount on base fares for active and retired Military, and military families.  Eligible service members can use the promotional codeVETS for the airfare discounts on Frontier’s booking site. The fare sale runs through Sunday, October 27, and is valid on travel through December 18. Travel + Leisure spotted a variety of discounted flights including:

Low-cost airline Play is helping travelers save on a trip to Europe with a monstrous Halloween sale that has flights starting at less than $100.

Mexico's flag carrier is returning to Arizona's capital city for the first time in more than a decade.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, wait… It’s a suitcase!

Time is running out to see Taylor Swift's "The Eras Tour" — but Marriott Bonvoy, one of the tour's official sponsors, is offering one more way to see the show.

Shoulder season is officially here, marking one of the best (and often overlooked) opportunities to plan a trip to a new destination. 

Southwest Airlines is having a «Catch a Sale Fare, Go See your BOO!» promotion, with discounted tickets as low as $59. The sale ends on October 24 at 11:59pm PST, and offers discounts on travel through February 12, 2025. Travel + Leisure spotted a variety of one-way deals in the fare sale including:

Waiting for your flight in Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) isn't exactly too inspiring.

As airlines compete to attract high-paying passengers, mini hotel-like suites are all the rage in business- and first-class cabins of commercial aircraft. But the reverse scenario—a commercial aircraft in a hotel suite—is a much rarer amenity.

I hopped on a train heading to Denver's international airport with confidence.

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Booking your next car rental with Southwest Airlines just got more rewarding, offering travelers discounts and bonus points for their upcoming trips.

Low-cost Breeze Airways is running a limited-time promotion with 40 percent off round-trip bookings through next May — making it the perfect time to plan travel into the new year.

Finland's flagship carrier, Finnair, will expand in the United States next summer, launching its largest-ever schedule from the U.S. to Finland.

United Airlines may have dropped nearly 40 U.S. cities during the pandemic, but one of them will soon see service on the carrier once again.

Holiday flights are more affordable than you might think—and the best part is, there's still time to snag a great deal, whether you're visiting family or starting a new tradition of traveling more.

If you’ve ridden in an airplane even once, you will have noticed that the windows have a very particular shape: They’re not quite rectangular, not quite round, but more of an oval shape. And much like all parts of aircraft design, there’s nothing random about that choice.

The days of airplane cabins hazy with cigarette smoke are long gone, but a reminder of that era is still visible inside commercial jets.

Although the final destination is usually worth it, getting there—especially by plane—isn’t exactly relaxing. In fact, about 55 percent of Americans find air travel so stressful that they would prefer filing taxes or visiting the dentist over maneuvering through the airport, according to a 2023 report by Expedia. The plot thickens further when you add ulcerative colitis (UC) to the mix.