$49 Southwest Airlines Flights From Detroit On Sale Now

DETROIT, MI — Southwest Airlines launched its twice-a-year travel deal, where flights can be picked up on the cheap — less than $100 for some of the airline’s shortest routes, on Tuesday. The 72-hour sale offers primarily non-stop, one-way flights as low as $49, and the one-way prices increase to $79, $99 or $129 for longer flights.

There are some exclusions, of course. Fridays and Sundays, two of the biggest travel days of the week, are excluded, and certain dates around Labor Day and Thanksgiving are blocked out. There are also restrictions on Southwest’s Florida and Nevada flights. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Detroit Patch, click here to find your local Michigan Patch. Also, follow us on Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

From the Detroit Metro Airport, $49 one-way flights are offered to Baltimore/Washington and Chicago Midway Airport. Flights to Atlanta, Nashville and St. Louis start at around $79, and for $99, you can travel to Denver. From Flint, flights to Chicago Midway start at $49.

The sale applies to tickets booked for Aug. 22-Dec. 13. It ends Thursday, June 8, at 11:59 p.m., local time, in the city of the departing flight. Full details of the sale found here.

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