I almost forgot to even do this today, forgetting it was Wednesday due to the Monday holiday. For those international visitors to the site, Monday was a holiday here in the U.S. having to do something with women being allowed to wear white pants again, or something of that nature. (Just kidding, it was Memorial Day, honoring troops, past, present, etc . . . no disrespect, please no hate e-mail from Iraqi military bases.)

• Like I mentioned earlier, this new airline, JetAmerica, is enticing the fine folks living in Toledo, Minneapolis, Lansing and South Bend with $9 flights to Newark (basically NYC). They’re going fast; apparently the cheap Melbourne, Florida, tix are already gone.

• Who isn’t going to Spain this summer? Well, I’m not, but I do plan on studying Spanish this summer, something I neglected to do last summer, so maybe in ’10. Too bad, because fares are jaw-droppingly low from NYC: $460 to Madrid, $519 to Barcelona; and only about $100 more for flights from the West Coast (that’s taxes, fees, everything but in-flight bubbly).

• I feel bad because these Wednesday posts seem to be US-centric, but for those of you living in Tonga, this one’s for you: flights out of Nuku?alofa are only $575 to Los Angeles (and vice-versa). If you’re in LA, you can also head to pretty much all over the Pacific for under $700 as seen in that last link. But remember Tonga, I thought of you first.

Posted on May 27, 2009 by Matt Stabile