I need to fly out from DEN to DTW on 4/7 and return 4/11 and I am looking for the best fare.
An last minute deals out there?
There really aren’t any deals to be had. I searched for a couple days for the best fare into LAX next week and everywhere I went was the same exact price. Airlines just don’t have sales going on. I ended up waiting a day too late and ended up paying more. If you see a reasonable deal, buy it. Best prices are purchasing at least 2 weeks in advance.
You can try “day of” fares posted on most any airline’s website. Most times, the airline that isn’t flying from hub to hub or hub to “spoke” station will have a good fare. However, you’re going from DEN to DTW, both of which are major hubs, one for UA and one for DL (and old NW hub). This means the cost may be higher. UA would probably be a better bet, though there will be more seats available on DL. That airline will probably release a lot of seats into a “seat bucket” at the last minute, as bookings for this week are way down.
Remember, these are almost last minute (or morning of the same day). If you want to try, or want to take a chance on a standby fare, go to the airport in DEN and camp out at the ticket counters. Keep an eye on fares through your BB or other web-surfing device, and be prepared to jump quickly. Easter travel will be up, so be flexible, too.
T. (ex-airline director, as of 31 March 
Thanks J and T!
I grabbed a reasonable deal with mileage accrued and only paid $80 more than I had to a couple days ago. Frontier out and Northwest back on a good schedule so I’ll take it.
Tony, what is your next project?
I grabbed a reasonable deal with mileage accrued and only paid $80 more than I had to a couple days ago. Frontier out and Northwest back on a good schedule so I’ll take it.
I’m standing up a website/blog/industry-insider entity called “Airline Insiders,” surprisingly enough 
Plus, I have a novel coming out in the fall that uses my airline experience as the basis for its story. It’ll be fictional, humorous – and God knows the things I’ve seen go on in an airport (and done to and with your bags or on an airplane’s seat) would make peoples’ eyes bug out in shock – so I think it’ll do well. What’s for certain is you’ll never wonder again why your bag missed the flight you got on, or why the flight attendant had a dreamy smile on her lips when she gave you your soda pop and pretzels (hahaha!).
I also started up a medical transcription business a few months back that’s growing steadily, so I need to pay more attention to that, and I made a disregarded entity LLC out of my copyrighting and article generation activities. Growing that, and the affiliate marketing activities I’m trying to do with it, is going to take up a bit of my day.
Other than that, a lot of swimming, biking, running and hanging out with my wife and family. I don’t think an IM-distance race is in the works this year (I went 10:47 at the GFT in '08, which I was extremely pleased with), but I’ll probably race a few 1/2-irons and a bunch of sprints and Olys around the Midwest.
I want to be able to sit outside the industry and kvetch about it. Maybe become a highly-paid “expert commentator” on Fox News or CNN, whenever it comes to something to do with the airlines. Yeah, right!! I know that I never again want to what about Type I or Type IV deice fluid or airfield management or yield formulas or snow removal coordination or any of that stuff ever again, and NO MORE NECKTIES. I’m done with those things, fah schizzle!!
T.