To those of you who were planning on flying out to the Gesch-Boutros wedding extravaganza, you may want to book your tickets before the end of June 14. Southwest and AirTran are in the midst of a huge fare sale, and I've seen one way direct flights starting at $98 inclusive of taxes and fees.
If you plan to fly out or back on a weekday, Southwest flights into BWI-Baltimore (they don't fly into DCA-Reagan) could be a great option, because you can jump on a free shuttle to a MARC train, which takes you downtown to Union Station in about 35-40 minutes and only costs $6. This is comparable to taking the metro from DCA to the downtown, which would cost a bit less and take a bit less time. If you are flying into or out of BWI on a weekend, the MARC train isn't running and you have to take an amtrak train on the same tracks, which works just fine but costs around $20 per trip.
As always, it's best to also check Kayak and other fare search engines for good measure, but I have not found any other fares this good in a while.
4 comments:
Thanks for the info. I booked a flight for Dyke and I, and was able to use our points. It cost us each $5 to fly and took off a lot less points since the price was so reasonable. Now we need to book the hotel.
And options for that can be found on our wedding website - which is found under "yous links."
Thanks for posting this info. We are booked from Fri.-Tue., flying Southwest airlines to Washington DC Dulles... so excited to be attending your wedding.
Glad you can make it! The one issue with Dulles is that it is a bit in the middle of nowhere. If you're renting a car, you should be totally fine. If not, you will have to pay to take a shuttle from the airport to a place closer to DC so you can jump on the metro.
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