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From Mike Haney in Travel & Leisure:
For spur-of-the-moment long weekends, www.Site59.com is a great starting point.  Named for the fifty-ninth minute, it bundles air, hotel, and rental car deals from more than 2,600 companies into flexible and reasonably priced two-to six-night weekend trips.  Travel can be booked anywhere from 14days to three hours before departure.

If a weekend isn?t enough time away, check out www.11thHourVacations.com, which sells longer trips. Among the best values are its condo rentals, available in about 150 cities worldwide at a fixed rate of $430 per week for two people.  If you want to bundle in your airfare,  11thHourVacations also lists charter flights.

www.LastMinuteTravel.com posts its top 25 deals every week; among them are exclusive offers as well as discount fares on low-cost carriers such as Jet-Blue (which aren?t usually sold on third-party sites).  Some of the best values are last-minute cruises.

Last Minute Airfares from the Six Major Airlines

www.aa.com/netsaavers
On Tuesdays, the airline lists domestic NetSaavers fares for the coming two weekends and international fares for the second weekend.

www.continental.com/specials
The carrier posts domestic-only specials on Wednesdays for travel the coming weekend.

www.delta.com/webfares
In addition to its WebFares, which are released on Wednesdays, Delta offers FanFares-the same idea. only they?re published Sundays and are related to specific sporting events.

www.nwa.com/travel/cyber/cyber.html
Its CyberSavers fares come out on Wednesdays and are mostly for flights from hub cities, including Detroit, Memphis, and Minneapolis.

www.united.com (click on "Special Deals" and then "E-Fares")
Released Tuesdays, its abundant E-Fares are searchable by departure city and include international and domestic flights for the coming two weekends.

www.usairways.com/promotions
E-Savers, posted on Wednesdays, list not only domestic fares for the coming weekend but, on occasion, discounted international flights.