While everyone else is battling the crowds at the mall, you can shop for holiday gifts on your favorite airline’s website. Frontier, for example, is now offering gift cards in denominations of anywhere from $25 to $1,500. Not very exciting, you say? Okay, how about the gift of more leg-room? I’ve got the scoop on that and other offerings, inside…

At United Airlines’ site, I couldn’t find gift cards per se, but, you can give miles as gifts, or, you can give the gift of extra leg-room for a whole year ($349, but the recipient must be a Mileage Plus member).

You can also find gifts cards on Southwest.com (for $10 to $1,000); American Airlines has gift cards from $50 to $1,500, and Delta will be happy to sell you gift certificates. Other airlines are no doubt doing something similar; just go to their websites and type in “deals” or “services” or “products” in the search box).

But do read all the information carefully: some of these cards/certificates have expiration dates and other restrictions.

We previously pre-bought $5,000 in travel for our CTO on United who travels through Denver and we always had a heck of a time getting the discount code to work on the online site (which as free) and a call to their reservations was in theory supposed to cost (because we should be doing it online, but we got it waived each time).

The bottom line … As always, know what you’re buying.