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Its well known that airlines like Southwest and Jetblue don’t usually allow travel meta-searchers to query their databases, forcing you instead to go direct to the airlines own websites to search and buy flights, rather than through a third party like Sidestep.

Southwest have a weekly ‘Hotfares’ page and an email newsletter but no RSS feeds. They do have a little downloadable application for your desktop though called ‘Ding’. It might be worth the download.

Spirit Airlines is a United States low-cost airline operating nationwide scheduled and charter flights. The airline is headquartered in Miramar, Florida. About a quarter of the airline’s flights are to destinations in the Caribbean, Bahamas, and Latin America.

The companies main hubs are Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood and Detroit Metro.

If you’re always on the look out for crazy bargains its worth signing up for the airlines $9 fare club. For instance tis past week there has been $9 (each way) fares to Puerto Rico from Fort Lauderdale.

Look at some of the deals that came out today! The only thing is you only have 24 hours to book the flight when they publish the deals but still very cool deals and these are only a few of the deals they have weekly in their $9 club.

Fort Lauderdale To: Fares From Dates Available
Atlanta $9* Each Way 4/19, 4/23, 4/24, 4/25, 4/28, 4/30
Atlantic City $9* Each Way 5/8, 5/13, 5/16, 5/23, 5/26, 5/29
Cancun, Mexico $9* Each Way 4/14, 4/25, 4/27, 4/28, 5/20, 5/27
Columbia, SC $9* Each Way 5/27, 5/28, 5/31, 6/7, 6/13, 6/15
Freeport, Bahamas $9* Each Way 4/8, 4/15, 4/23, 4/27, 4/28, 4/29
Islip, NY $9* Each Way 5/21, 5/22, 5/23, 5/25, 5/28, 5/30
Myrtle Beach $9* Each Way 4/7, 4/8, 4/21, 5/5, 5/23, 5/29
Nassau, Bahamas $9* Each Way 4/12, 4/14, 4/22, 4/26, 4/28, 4/29
Orlando $9* Each Way 4/17, 4/23, 4/24, 4/28, 4/29, 4/30
Ponce, Puerto Rico $9* Each Way 4/15, 4/16, 4/24, 4/26, 4/28, 4/29
Port Au Prince, Haiti $9* Each Way 4/8, 4/22, 4/23, 4/27, 4/28, 4/29
Punta Cana, DR $9* Each Way 5/9, 5/11, 5/18, 5/27, 5/30, 5/31
San Antonio, TX $9* Each Way 4/26, 4/27, 4/29, 5/15, 5/28, 5/30
San Juan, Puerto Rico $9* Each Way 4/13, 4/15, 4/20, 4/23, 4/27, 4/30
Santo Domingo, DR $9* Each Way 4/9, 4/19, 4/20, 4/25, 4/26, 4/27
Tampa $9* Each Way 4/9, 4/16, 4/23, 4/26, 4/29, 4/30
Boston $19* Each Way 5/9, 5/19, 5/22, 5/24, 5/30, 5/31
Washington, DC (Reagan) $19* Each Way 4/10, 4/11, 4/26, 5/3, 5/11, 5/24
Lima, Peru $69* Each Way 4/17, 4/18, 4/27, 5/23, 5/25, 5/26

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Being from England my knowledge of Baseball is limited to movies that have featured it heavily. That would include ‘A League of Their Own’, ‘Fever Pitch’, ‘Field Of Dreams’ , ‘Major League’, ‘Bull Durham’ , ‘The Babe’ and the like.

Nevertheless this week saw the start of what is nicknamed ‘the Grapefruit League’ in Florida, or to give it its official name, ‘Spring Training’. In Major League Baseball spring training is a series of practices and exhibition games preceding the start of the regular season.

So, if you’re in Florida you have the chance to see teams like the New York Yankees (in Tampa), Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins (in Fort Myers) and current World Series holders St. Louis Cardinals (in Jupiter) not forgetting Florida’s own Tampa Bay Devil Rays (in St. Pete) and the Florida Marlins (in Jupiter).

If you’re looking for game schedules and the best up to date ‘Grapefruit League’ news check local Florida papers and the teams own Spring Training pages. Read the rest of this entry »