Southwest Sale: How To Score Cheap Air Fares Out Of Washington DC

WASHINGTON, DC — Southwest Airlines has launched its yearly fall sale and you know what that means: cheap fares out of the Washington, D.C., region. The sale kicked off Tuesday and will run for three days. Fares start as low as $49 in many cities and can go up to $129 the further you travel.

Here’s where you can go out of Dulles International Airport and Washington Reagan National Airport and how much it’ll cost you to get there:

From Washington (Dulles)

• To Atlanta, starting at $79
• To Ft. Lauderdale, starting at $79
• To Orlando, starting at $79

From Washington (Reagan National)

• To Atlanta, GA, starting at $79
• To Chicago (Midway), IL, starting at $79
• To Columbus, OH, starting at $49
• To Dallas (Love Field), TX, starting at $99
• To Ft. Lauderdale, FL, starting at $79
• To Houston (Hobby), TX, starting at $79
• To Milwaukee, WI, starting at $99
• To Nashville, TN, starting at $99
• To New Orleans, LA, starting at $79
• To Omaha, NE, starting at $99
• To Orlando, FL, starting at $79
• To Providence, RI, starting at $49
• To St. Louis, MO, starting at $99

Some of the $49 fares include Atlanta to Cleveland, Washington, D.C. to Boston and Chicago to Pittsburgh.

The sale ends at midnight Thursday. Travel is available for one-way “Wanna Get Away” fares.

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Travel dates in the U.S. are between Aug. 21 and Dec. 12, excluding blackout dates. Labor Day and dates around Thanksgiving are among those excluded.

Flights are also not available on Friday or Sunday and the sale is limited to non-stop trips, which could throw a wrench in any weekend getaway plans.

The fares are not refundable, but can go toward future travel on Southwest, so long as you cancel your reservation “at least ten minutes” prior to departure.

For a complete list of restrictions, see the terms and conditions.

The sale comes a day after Southwest announced that it expects to see a 3 percent drop this quarter for per-mile revenue. Southwest has seen fewer bookings since a deadly April 17 incident, in which a jet engines caught fire and sent a piece of shrapnel through a window. The plane’s cabin depressurized and a woman was partially sucked out of the plane. She died from her injuries.

In May, a ground crew pickup truck slammed into a Southwest Airlines plane at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, injuring the truck driver and forcing passengers to sit on the plane for two hours, according to reports. Flight 6263 had just landed from Fort Lauderdale and was approaching a gate to disembark travelers when the accident occurred.

PHOTO: Southwest Airlines planes sit at their gates at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on August 15, 2015. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)