--- title: There's a New Low-Cost Way to Fly to Mexico's Beaches This Winter description: Southwest Airlines is launching new flights from LAX, Los Angeles's biggest airport, to a trio of Mexican beach resorts, from just $129. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Shopping - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2016-08-19T20:02:11.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T11:35:03.000Z' section: Shopping tags: - Airlines - beach - deals - pubdesk - vacation word_count: 331 canonical: https://money.com/southwest-flight-sale-cancun-deals/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Resort Beach Chairs](https://img.money.com/2016/08/southwestflightsmexico-167612959.jpg) *Cabos San Lucas, Mexico.* This week, [Southwest Airlines announced](http://swamedia.com/channels/Southwest-News/releases/southwest-airlines-to-fly-nonstop-between-los-angeles-lax-and-cancun-los-cabos-and-puerto-vallarta-mexico-2?l=en-US) new flights from Los Angeles to a trio of popular Mexican beach destinations, with airfare starting at only $129 one way. Starting on December 4, the airline will launch twice-daily flights from LAX to Cancun and Los Cabos, and once-a-day flights to Puerto Vallarta. In all cases, airfare is available at special introductory rates of $129 each way. (There is limited availability on each flight, as well as blackout dates on some peak travel days.) For the sake of comparison, a recent check of fares from Los Angeles to Cancun during the second week of December showed that American Airlines and Delta were charging just under $250 for a midweek flight on the same route. For more than four decades, Southwest Airlines focused strictly on domestic airfare (i.e., flights within the U.S. only). That changed during the summer of 2014, however, when it expanded outside U.S. borders with its first few flights to the Caribbean. The airline has continued to expand both within and outside the U.S. since then, with flights to about a dozen [international destinations](https://www.southwest.com/international/) in the Caribbean, central America, and Mexico. The newest series of routes are viewed as significant as Southwest can now boast departures to Mexico from Los Angeles's largest airport. Southwest will also be introducing flights from northern California (Oakland) to Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta starting in early 2017. ***Read Next:* [7 Trips That Are Better (and Cheaper) In the Fall](https://money.com/alternative-travel-destinations-cheaper-better/)** Traditionally, travelers could expect the so-called "Southwest Airlines Effect" to cause an across-the-board decline in airfare whenever the airline launched new routes. Now that Southwest has grown beyond its upstart, low-fare roots, the effect isn't quite as impactful as it once was. But more competition is always good for airline passengers, and at least during the introductory sale period Southwest's prices from LAX to Mexico are true bargains. To get the special promotional sale prices, travelers must [book by August 21](https://www.southwest.com/html/promotions/new-service-sale-160818.html), with the cheapest flights to Mexico valid for departures Sunday to Wednesday. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/southwest-flight-sale-cancun-deals/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Shopping", "item": "https://money.com/shopping/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Deals", "item": "https://money.com/deals/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "There's a New Low-Cost Way to Fly to Mexico's Beaches This Winter" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/southwest-flight-sale-cancun-deals/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/southwest-flight-sale-cancun-deals/", "name": "There's a New Low-Cost Way to Fly to Mexico's Beaches This Winter", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-08-19T20:02:11.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/southwest-flight-sale-cancun-deals/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/southwest-flight-sale-cancun-deals/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:35:03.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "There's a New Low-Cost Way to Fly to Mexico's Beaches This Winter", "articleSection": "Shopping", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/08/southwestflightsmexico-167612959.jpg", "width": 5574, "height": 3744, "caption": "Resort Beach Chairs" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-08-19T20:02:11.000Z", "description": "Southwest Airlines is launching new flights from LAX, Los Angeles's biggest airport, to a trio of Mexican beach resorts, from just $129.", "abstract": "Southwest Airlines is launching new flights from LAX, Los Angeles's biggest airport, to a trio of Mexican beach resorts, from just $129.", "@id": "https://money.com/southwest-flight-sale-cancun-deals/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:35:03.000Z", "wordCount": 331, "keywords": [ "Airlines", "beach", "deals", "pubdesk", "vacation" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Shopping", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Deal-of-the-day", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal-of-the-day" ] } ] } ] } ```