{"id":14331,"date":"2011-05-17T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=14331"},"modified":"2016-12-15T10:49:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T16:49:55","slug":"flight-tracker-the-frugal-flyer-summer-airfares-under-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/flight-tracker-the-frugal-flyer-summer-airfares-under-200\/","title":{"rendered":"The frugal flier: Summer airfares under $200"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14332\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14332\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/flight-tracker-the-frugal-flyer-summer-airfares-under-200\/san_diego_bill-kuffrey\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14332\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14332  \" title=\"San_Diego_Bill Kuffrey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/San_Diego_Bill-Kuffrey-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fly to San Diego beaches for a glowing sunset. Credit: Bill Kuffrey.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>By Derek Brown<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Call 2011 the summer of airfare limbo. In a random sample, we found tickets from $85 to $199, proving that travelers can still  snag round-trip\u00a0<a title=\"flights for less than $200\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/GDDC?deal_id=air-cheap-flight-deals\" target=\"_self\"> flights less than $200<\/a>. The trick is to be flexible and consider  traveling during off-peak times and days. And here&#8217;s even more good  news: Some fares so cheap that they&#8217;ll cost less than a tank of gas to your chosen destination.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Check out some of our amazing summer vacation fare deals (quotes reflect the time of posting):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orlando-New York City $199<\/li>\n<li>Tampa-Baltimore $186<\/li>\n<li>Denver-Los Angeles $176<\/li>\n<li>Chicago-Atlanta $166<\/li>\n<li>Milwaukee-Washington, DC $154<\/li>\n<li>San Francisco-San Diego $146<\/li>\n<li>Las Vegas-Long Beach $85<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Related resources<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Charleston hotels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/Charleston-Hotels.d6057101.Travel-Guide-Hotels\" target=\"_self\">Charleston hotels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Honolulu hotels\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/Honolulu-Hotels.d1488.Travel-Guide-Hotels\/\" target=\"_self\">Honolulu hotels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Las Vegas vacations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=vegasvacation&amp;cnt=PKHtype=blog\" target=\"_self\">Las Vegas vacations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Orlando vacations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=orlando-vacations&amp;cnt=OVItype=blog\" target=\"_self\">Orlando vacations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>When Derek Brown, the newest member to the Orbitz content team, isn\u2019t jetting around the country or exploring cities like Shanghai, he\u2019s at home in Andersonville, a charming North Side neighborhood in Chicago.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.newscred.com\/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT1lYjY4ZWEwY2IzZTY2NTc1OTUwNzA1Yjk3NzZjOTdkYw==\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" class=\"nc_pixel\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call 2011 the summer of airfare limbo. In a random sample, we found tickets from $85 to $199, proving that travelers can still snag round-trip  flights less than $200. The trick is to be flexible and consider traveling during off-peak times and days. And here&#8217;s even more good news: Some fares so cheap that they&#8217;ll cost less than a tank of gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,2218],"class_list":["post-14331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-airline-tickets","tag-travel-deals"],"acf":{"api_active":null,"api_title":null,"api_excerpt":null,"api_featured_image":null,"api_lob":null},"posts_api_cpm_point":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The frugal flier: Summer airfares under $200 | Orbitz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/flight-tracker-the-frugal-flyer-summer-airfares-under-200\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The frugal flier: Summer airfares under $200 | Orbitz\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Call 2011 the summer of airfare limbo. 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