A recent study shows that airlines are even less popular than the IRS. How to get leisure travellers into airplanes is becoming a dilemma.

Perhaps air passengers can use their reluctance & skepticism of the industry to find leverage in an era of rising fuel costs and recuded services.

Details on new summer travel offerings, hotel deals , domestic & international airline news from Southwest, Delta, Skybus & Jet Blue’s 30 day round trip ticket giveaway all after the jump…

Oakland airport has approx 100 flights a week that leave from there, and June 12 brings Oakland airport more offerings with the addition of Skybus who regularly offer seats as low as $10 up to $200 to their 14 destination cities.

More information on Skybus is available at http://www.skybus.com.

Southwest Airlines (whose lowest cost mystique was challenged in the Baltimore Sun last month), recently began now offering nonstop SFO service to the following cities: Chicago’s Midway (three flights daily), San Diego (eight daily), and Las Vegas (seven daily). The airline reaches 46 other destinations including Manchester NH, Providence RI, Washington Dulles, BWI and Orlando FL. SWA’s schedule from SFO is at : http://www.southwest.com/about_swa/press/070511_sfo_schedule.pdf.

Southwest has special 21-day advance fares from as low as $39 one-way to San Diego; $59 one-way to Las Vegas; and $99 one-way to Chicago Midway, from all three Bay Area airports (SFO, OAK, and SJO) and available online at http://www.southwest.com/. Travel deals valid from Aug. 26, 2007, through Oct. 31, 2007. All tickets must be purchased 21 days before departure. Note that some fares are listed in the “$39-$59 Promotional Fares” section to the left of their usual “$49 Internet Only” fares.

Air China, has increased the number of flights between Beijing and San Francisco to daily since April.

The embattled carrier Delta Airlines has emerged from bankruptcy and are focusing on changing their image. They plan to alter the travel experience, offering self service kiosks in airports, and in-flight interactive touchscreen entertainment with movies and games, as well as new signature cocktails and better quality fresh meals.

“The campaign communicates how we have modernized, upgraded and reinvigorated the airline, and we’re continuing to change”

VP of Marketing Tim Mapes told industry observers last month.

Visitors coming to San Francisco can check the official SF Visitors site for various city hotel deals and receive free coupons, and cable car tickets being offered by the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau for booking accommodations through its Web site. Regionally travelers can also find out of town deals through the websites of popular motel chains like Comfort Inn, Ramada, Motel 6, Best Western, Days Inn, Super 8, Holiday Inn Express, Travelodge.

Here’s info on the Jet Blue tickets being given away daily through SF’s Hotel Adagio this month…

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