Holiday Cheer: Good Old-Fashioned Airfare Sales Are Back

This is going to be a lonely Thanksgiving for a couple I know out in California. Their only child had just begun his freshman year at a prestigious university in New England -- a school with an equally prestigious price tag (tuition, books, room and board costing about $50,000 a year). The family decided that adding the cost of an expensive "turkey day" round-trip ticket to the mix just wasn't worth it. So, they resigned themselves to wait for a December reunion. You can't blame them. I know... Full Story