America's Cheapest Airports
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, September, 1998 by Bill McCoy
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Why should we spend the time to search for airports with lower-than-average ticket prices? It's because a growing number of other airports are so heavily dominated by a single carrier that their airfares have begun to skyrocket beyond tolerable levels. The culprits (and their dominating carriers accounting for more than 70 percent of the flights from those locations) are Pittsburgh (US Airways), Cincinnati (Delta), Detroit (Northwest), Atlanta (Delta), Charlotte (US Airways), Dallas (American), Salt Lake City (Delta), Denver (United), Houston (Continental), Memphis (Northwest), Minneapolis (Northwest), and St. Louis (TWA).
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In another group of airports, two big airlines command most of the business, and each appears to cautiously avoid undercutting the other's high prices. In one such airport - New York's LaGuardia - it now costs $202 to fly the shuttle one-way for an hour to Washington, D.C.! That's about the same as you'd pay to London, ...
