I’m starting to get in the groove now! Today is my second column for ABCNews.com; in case you missed it, I am now one of their regular (weekly) columnists. My latest? Well, I talk about finding the cheapest airfare — how it’s getting harder than ever — but how it can still be done. Click “more” for details.

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You may have noticed on our “Cheap Airline Ticket Air Travel Deals Blog” that a number of airlines are running “one-day” airfare sales; we even did a post on these short-lived airfare sales a week or so ago. Since then, we’ve seen more of this, including a Northwest Vacations airfare sale that only lasts 20-hours! Clearly, the airlines are up to something. But what? Let me explain.

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I don’t have to tell you it’s getting late. But you can still create a Valentine’s Day getaway…or, a Presidents Day weekend…or even combine the two (a vote for love?). You have to act fast, though, AND, follow my 5-Last Minute Tips. To see them, just click “more”.

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Air Canada has some super cheap airline ticket deals in April to Rome. I just posted some examples in our new FareCompare.com Air Travel Deals Blog — we will be highlighting many more of these special published deals as they happen on this new blog — a few sample deals are shown below…

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Ready to be surprised? Read the real insider secrets. These really shouldn’t be secrets because every air travel shopper show know them — I know shopping for airfare can be maddening — I was just back from a travel CEO conference and studies show that “you” the consumer shop 5-6 websites before you buy — let me take some of the mystery out of making the best air travel buying decision …

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I had some fun posting some Domestic deals on Monday, and figured why not do the same with with American Airlines tonight on some international airfares to the Caribbean.

The screen shot above taken at midnight (Central) on Thursday August 16th, shows that American is not promoting any fare sales to the Caribbean.

This is because they filed these a few hours ago and won’t be loaded until well after midnight, or more likely they couldn’t be bothered to notify the web team …

At 8pm tonight (Thursday 16-Aug) they filed an international airfare sale from the U.S. to the Caribbean (they did have one a while back, that ended today), so this probably should be considered an extension, sort of, since they removed the old sale (forcing the prices up) and then filed the new one.

The airfares are booked in “O” (oh) class, which is the most restricted seat inventory (least amount of seats), but there will be some seats.

Travel appears to be on most routes through mid December.

The number of airfare changes was so large I could only post this with a PDF attachment you can view at the link below:

American Airline Caribbean Airfare Sale (PDF) I sorted it by departure city code for quick lookup (19 pages)

On the FareCompare.com site, you can research the days by entering the city pair (codes or name) and using “Research Mode” to see the calendar.

Bummer I still am looking for that sale fare to St. Thomas from Dallas for my parents - Its about the only destination not in the list…

For those that are not familiar with the city codes to the Caribbean, here is a cheat sheet:

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I get the opportunity 3 times a day for Domestic U.S. & Canada to review a report our software kicks out with the absolute cheapest deals that are filed during each airfare feed 10am, 12:30pm and 8:00pm weekdays (5 times a day for international)
I thought it might be fun to post them once in the blog and see if people like the idea and if so we will have a deal tool in FareCompare.com (so put in your comments one way or the other by clicking the comments link the bottom).

If you sign up for airfare email alerts you will get these deals when they happen, you just won’t see them all in a list in this form.

I think this might give you an idea of what sorts of changes we see each day.

Many of these fares will only be around for a short period because they are “tweaks”, others are just plain “Crazy Ivans“.

Maybe you can even challenge me to some airline code and city code trivia in the comments (airfares are filed by city code, which is different from airport code and be careful I have been doing this a while …).

All prices are before tax which is approximately $21 roundtrip for non-stops and $42 roundtrip for connecting.

So here are todays deals where prices dropped at least $100 below the previous low price in the city pair:

Trivia:

City Code DTT - Detroit (airport code is DTW)

Airline Code FL - Airtran Airlines

All the “Y” first letter city codes are in Canada

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