Delta has joined AirTran and American in offering domestic sale fares available for travel through early November. Fares start at $98 round-trip, and Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas, and New York are featured.

Four of the six sale fares I compared were among the best available, although AirTran, American, Northwest, United, and US Airways matched many of those prices. However, Frontier beat Delta’s New York/Las Vegas fare, and US Airways offered a better deal for travel between New York and Jacksonville. Delta’s prices are decent but you should still compare fares before booking because this sale has a lot of competition.

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The State of Disorganisation

There must have been from the onset a public relations hill to climb in the Fifa decision to award the 2010 soccer world cup tournament to an African country. Fair or not, Africa’s image abroad does not suggest the kind of economic muscle and logistical wherewithal necessary to stage an event of such international significance. This, however, is a prejudice, and does not take into account the fact that South Africa has a general transport and communications infrastructure that is by world standards impressive, and by African standards miraculous. However a recent report in the UK Guardian, suggesting that Fifa had put in place a £400 million slush fund against the high likelihood of a collapse of the 2010 World Cup, attracted just enough vitriolic denial from Fifa to suggest that it might be true.

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