Cheap Flights: US to Cancun (CUN)
Low Cost Airlines Offer Discount Fares and Deals to Mexican Resorts
Sep 20, 2007
Increasingly, American low-cost airlines are turning south to Mexico. Non-stop flights on budget airlines from various US cities including Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington DC are now available to Cancun. Competition means lower fares on the busier routes. Full-service airlines such as American, Continental, and United are responding with cheaper fares too on slow-selling flights. Flight volumes are expected to increase ensuring lower ticket prices on Cancun vacation packages.
Tips on Getting Cheap Fares to Cancun
- Use Internet resources
Flexibility, time, and research are the keys to getting the cheapest tickets and lowest airfares on flights to Cancun. Numerous reservation services are available that compare fares between routes and over a number of days. Some even help to predict when airfares will get cheaper or more expensive. A little research can save dollars.
- Establish a base price
Use any major on-line reservation service to check regularly available prices on the preferred route on the preferred dates. Use this baseline price to compare other routes and dates to decide whether savings, if any, are worth any additional hassle.
- Book a Cancun vacation package
A traditional Cancun vacation package with hotel accommodation and flights included usually works out cheaper than separate flight and hotel reservations.
- Use a low-cost carrier
Low cost carriers are increasingly moving into the US-Mexican market with more discounted non-stop flights available to Mexico. (Some routes listed below are seasonal and some do not operate on a daily basis.)
- Check traditional airline prices
Flexibility is the key here – cheap tickets are available on slow-selling flights. Only non-stop flights are listed below. Although non-stop flights are often more expensive than connecting flights, consider first whether the saving is sufficient to make up for the extra time, hassle, as well as the risk of missing a connection and subsequently loosing a day of your Cancun beach vacation.
Cheap Non-Stop Flights to Cancun Airport (CUN) on Low-Cost Carriers:
- USA3000 has cheap flights to Cancun from Baltimore, Chicago (ORD), Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, and Saint Louis.
- ATA code shares with Southwest on flights to Cancun from Chicago (MDW), Dallas, New York (LGA), and Washington DC (DCA).
- Ted, United’s baby, flies to Cancun from Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and Washington (IAD).
- Jet Blue offers low fares to Cancun from its base in New York (JFK) and Boston.
- Sun Country Airlines has cheap flights to Cancun from Dallas and Minneapolis.
- Spirit Airlines offers cheap fares on flights to Cancun from Fort Lauderdale and Detroit.
- Frontier Airlines flies to Cancun from Denver.
- Alaska Airlines has low fares on flights to Cancun from Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle.
Cheap Non-Stop Flights to Cancun Airport (CUN) on traditional, full-service airlines:
- American Airlines flies to Cancun from Chicago (ORD), Dallas, Miami, and New York (JFK).
- Continental Airlines is the largest American airline in the Mexican market and flies non-stop to Cancun from Cleveland, Houston, and New York (Newark).
- Delta Airlines has flights to Cancun from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City.
- Mexicana Airlines flies several times per day non-stop to Cancun from Miami and Los Angeles.
- Northwest Airlines flies to Cancun from Memphis.
- United Airlines flies non-stop to Cancun from Chicago (ORD), Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington DC (IAD).
- US Airways flies to Cancun from Charlotte, Philadelphia, and Phoenix.
Also on suite101.com:
Cheap Flights to Cancun on Mexican Low-Cost Airlines (Domestic Mexican Flights)
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