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Travel Alert! Join the battle for Salt Lake City!
Either the LDS, The Salt Lake City Tourism Board or Northwest and Delta are up to something, because all of the sudden, prices out to SLC just tanked.I'm pulling up tickets from about $100-$125 round trip departing from Detroit and Chicago respectively, with other cities across the country at fairly competitive rates. At this point, fares look to be good through early February.
"Why go to Salt Lake City in the middle of the winter," you ask? One word: skiing. Park City is right around the corner from Utah's capital city and for the money that you save on the plane ticket you can afford a nicer condo rental.
In case you're really interested, what really happened is called The Southwest Effect. As the airline best hedged against fuel prices, Southwest has the wonderful position of setting the market rate on fares between many cities across the country. That is, as soon as they decide to publish a sale fare on tickets between Dallas and Los Angeles, everyone else has to follow suit.
Just today the airline published a 50% off coupon to Salt Lake City, so to stay competitive, Northwest and Delta matched the price. And that's where we come in, my friends.
Book your tickets soon, I just booked a pair out for a weekend in January and availability already dried up for those days.
Filed under: Airlines, Travel Deals
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Cully Nov 17th 2008 2:59PM
The "No on 8" campaign is calling for a boycott of Utah. You can decide for yourself whether a general boycott of Utah is an effective tool against the LDS, but it should be noted.
rachel Nov 17th 2008 3:25PM
Gotta agree with Cully. I think prices have tanked in anticipation of lost business due to the boycott:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j3xrKGCR3_Lr31cirVMS_5fY_8igD94ADR9G0
Brian Nov 17th 2008 4:11PM
While I agree in principal that a boycott against Utah because of the "Church" and it's Prop 8 support is a good message. It would likely hurt those who where/are against Prop 8, as most ski related industry people lean more to the side of the liberal groups.
But as one local noted, let them stay home this year, more room for us on the slops.
topher Nov 18th 2008 2:11AM
What is funny to me is that 'The church' does not have as many members in Utah as people think. And I think that most of the people in the ski industry probably do not fall into the category of 'the church'. It just doesn't makes sense. Is the Vatican having the same effect as they donated in a similar manner?
dp2020 Nov 22nd 2008 2:17AM
The Utah LDS church, a tax exempt entity, contributed or caused to be contributed $20 million dollars to a proposition in California and somehow you want to take the middle ground on whether there should be a boycott because, after all, the flights and ski packages are cheap and it's a bad economy.... apathy is a dangerous thing.
chuck Feb 24th 2009 1:06PM
Months have now passed, but the memory has not. I have no interest in traveling to Utah, I've cut up my American Express card, I will not fly Delta (they've got a hub in Utah) And I had the option to stay at the Marriott on Guam and instead stayed with at the Westin. Yes, time has passed... but to support a Mormon based business in my mind would be like supporting the Taliban. I will not tollerate doing business with anyone that would find it acceptable to take away rights from American citizens. Saddam threatened rights of Americans and we went to WAR, the Mormons do the same and we do nothing??? I don't think so! While many feel as if a boycott does nothing... I wouldn't count the Gay dollar or Gay friendly dollar off. Especially, in the travel industry!!! It's sad.... in Nazi Germany, the CHRISITANS said. "It's okay because they're JEWS" and they supported HITLER, in America, the Christians said... "It's okay because they're BLACK and they supported SLAVERY... even used their bible to support such evil. Then in the late 1960's the christians were at it again... this time they fled to the streets and professed if BLACKS were allowed to marry whites, this would ruin marriage. Yeah, sounds familar.... now in 2009, the christians say... "It's okay because they're GAY" Well, I'm here to tell you.... It was not okay then and it surely is not okay NOW!
And just on a Christian note.... do you know what Jesus said about homosexuality??? NOTHING!!! Yes, Jesus said nothing in regards to homosexuality... now surely if it was a issue, Jesus would have mentioned it. He was not stupid.