It's Hard to Find Vision Airlines on Airfare Search Engines, But It's Got Unbeatable Rates

It's an odd carrier that flies mainly out of a U.S. airforce base in Destin/Ft. Walton, Florida. Yet starting in June, Vision Airlines (tel. 877/359-2538; www.visionairlines.com) will enable you to fly between major cities in the southeast of the U.S. for one-way introductory fares (via a stop in Destin/Ft. Walton) of as little as $78. And thus, if you're willing to fly between Ft. Lauderdale and Las Vegas (via Destin/Ft. Walton), your one-way fare will be an amazing $78. Ditto for trips originating in Orlando, or St. Louis, or Atlanta.

Vision Airlines began 15-or-so years ago as a charter carrier, its most important assignment being a trip for the U.S. government transporting Russian spies to Vienna, where they were exchanged for U.S. spies. Eventually, using space it rented from an air force base in Destin/Ft. Walton, it began operating scheduled service to odd locations. I learned about it this past winter when I realized that tons of Canadians from Toronto were using it to fly cheaply from Niagara Falls airport (to which they drove their cars) to that favorite Canadian destination of Ft. Lauderdale. That was a seasonal service only, to be replaced in spring by flights from Niagara Falls to Destin/Ft. Walton.

Though all but a few of Vision's flights go to and from Ft. Walton from major cities in the southeastern states, it is possible by using Ft. Walton/Destin as an intermediate stop to reach other destinations having nothing to do with Ft. Walton/Destin. Starting in June, Vision will be charging as little as $39 (probably an introductory fare only) for most of its flights going to Ft. Walton/Destin and then it will be charging as little as $39 all over again for flights leaving Ft. Walton/Destin and flying to other places.

If you'll go to the route map on Vision's website, you'll immediately see all the low-cost opportunities available to you. Specifically, if you live in Knoxville, Memphis, Little Rock, Atlanta, Asheville, Shreveport, Biloxi, Savannah, or other nearby cities, you'll be able to use Vision Airlines for a cheap, one-stop flight to Las Vegas, Orlando or Ft. Lauderdale -- or to one of the other southeastern cities I've named. Bear in mind that Vision's lowest fares are limited to trips in summer.

This is no mainstream airlines -- yet. It's clearly a carrier in its earliest growth stage. But it's obvious that it has ambitions to be a smaller Southwest Airlines, a low-cost champion of cost-conscious travelers.

Source: http://www.frommers.com/blog/?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3a3ec3ac40-db8a-4d10-a884-acf9ccad0879Post%3a435d2347-f659-4b9e-9c3c-b3dc0ea94b1b

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