This is not for summer prime-time travel but the prices are pretty good if you have plans. You must book before April 19 for travel April 24-June 20. Blackout days and other restrictions vary by route. You can find the details here.

And here are some sample one-way prices from Logan International Airport:
$46 to Nantucket; $49 to Newark, NJ; $60 to Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Washington, DC (Dulles and Reagan), New York (JFK); $90 to Raleigh-Durham; $95 to Chicago; $105 to Jacksonville, Fla.; $120 to Denver and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; $130 to Orlando, Fla, San Francisco, and Phoenix; $140 to San Jose, Calif., and Austin; $147 to Bermuda; $170 to Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles; $179 to Santo Domingo and Santiago in the Dominican Republic.

This is a pretty good one. Sale fares, which end tonight at midnight, start at $49 for flights Monday-Thursday and Saturday between April 23 or and June 20. A 14-day purchase is required. Here is all the fine print.

I flew Virgin America between Boston and San Francisco last week and heard some significant grumbling among passengers, particularly but not exclusively the graphic tee set, about the price of the carrier's WiFi, which runs $4.95 for flights less than an hour and a half, $9.95 for trips up to three hours, and $12.95 for longer ones, like mine.

Apparently, the folks on my flights were representative of the way many travelers feel. The Wall Street Journal's Middle Seat blog chatted with representatives of In-Stat, a research and consulting firm, about WiFi use aboard planes.

"People are beginning to expect you to have Wi-Fi everywhere. It's just whether they are willing to pay for it," said In-Stat senior analyst Amy Cravens.

In-Stat research shows that people place the value for in-flight Wi-Fi at about $2 to $5 per session, rather than the typical $10 and up. "Value perceptions are not aligned with current pricing," Ms. Cravens said.

Right now, about 1,700 US planes are outfitted with WiFi. This includes the entire fleets of Virgin America, AirTran, and all of Delta's domestic service. And a signficant portion of American and Southwest Airlines jets also offer the service.

Most carriers share the same pricing structure and that's because they get their WiFi from Gogo, which sets prices. The notable exception is Southwest, which contracts with Row 44 Inc. and retains control over rates: currently $5 per flight.

Internet use in the sky is on the rise. In-Stat told the Middle Seat that 4 percent of passengers logged on at the end of 2010, but the firm expects that number to hit 10 percent by the end of this year. Healthy but not surging.

It's pretty clear that if airlines want that number to take off rates will need to fall.

By Paul E. Kandarian, Globe Correspondent

Valentine's Day is approaching, which reminds of us two things: It's time to be romantic, and winter is half over. There are a number of places, far and near, to warm up to the romantic cause with Valentine packages, and here are some: 

The White Barn Inn up in Kennebunk Beach, Maine, is running a romance package for the romantic month of February, which includes a night's stay in a deluxe room adorned with chocolate-covered strawberries and champagne to wash them down with. Included is continental breakfast, afternoon tea and a romantic dinner for two. Rates are $600 for one night, dropping to $565 if staying more than one night. Check it out at http://www.whitebarninn.com/ or call 207-967-2321.

The Opus Vancouver has a "Cupid Concierge" deal for $295 a night, getting you a room, sparkling wine at check-in, a half-dozen roses or orchids delivered to your room before arrival, a half-bottle of Veuve Clicquot, a framed photo of your choice and a handwritten message from you delivered to your room before arrival, breakfast in bed and late check out. Upgrade to a suite for $100 more. See more at http://www.opushotel.com/vancouver.html

Also in Canada, Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth in Montreal has a "Bare Your Heart Package" for the romantic in you, which includes a one-night stay and breakfast in bed, with rates from $219 in Canadian dollars (the exchange rate is nearly even these days), available throughout February (except Feb. 24 and 25). A $10 donation per package sold will be made to Fondation En Coeur, a Quebec-based agency that helps kids with heart disease and their families with support services and information, and helping improve medical services in pediatric cardiology and adult congenital heart disease. Visit http://www.fairmont.com/queenelizabeth for more information.

Go west and get warmer with the "Back in the Saddle Package" at the Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, Ariz., which offers 20 percent off room nights (their rates are all inclusive, with meals and activities) for anyone booking three or more nights from Feb. 10-19. Rates start at $225 per night, not counting the discount. The resort is a working horse ranch with 180 horses on 60,000 acres of desert landscape between the Rincon Mountains, Saguaro National Park and the Coronado National Forest, where couples can horseback ride, hike, mountain bike, swim, fish, enjoy the spa and relax in a room - that has no television. This is about romance, not what's on cable. Visit http://www.tanqueverderanch.com/

Wine is romantic, and the Fairmont Mission Inn & Spa in Sonoma, Calif., unwraps its "Romance in Wine Country Package," with a room, two one-hour spa treatments, sparkling wine and a chocolate strawberry amenity, rose-petal turndown and sparkling wine tasting passes at Gloria Ferrer Winery. Packages are priced from $429 per night, and the special runs Feb. 10-19. The hotel serves what it calls a food lover's "aphrodisiac menu" for $125 per person. Check it out at http://www.fairmont.com/sonoma

Another Arizona resort, L'Auberge de Sedona, offers its "Sedona Snowmance" package for two that highlights skiing and getting warm and cozy later in new guest rooms with mountain views. The package includes two nights, two lift tickets to Flagstaff Snowbowl per day booked, a $75 food and beverage or spa credit per day booked and free winter drinks by the fire, ciders, teas and cocoas (the hard stuff is available but not free). Package savings are 40 percent with rates starting at $265 for guest rooms and $320 for cottages. The deal is valid through March 15. Check it out at http://www.lauberge.com/

Sunsets on the Pacific are pretty romantic, and the "Stay, Spa & Splashes" packages at Surf & Sand Resort in Laguna Beach, Calif., allow you to enjoy them. The deals, with 30 percent off rates starting at $625 a night, include a one-night stay, spa treatment for two, three-course dinner for two at the resort's signature Splashes restaurant, and gourmet breakfast in room (or the restaurant). Check it out at http://www.surfandsandresort.com/

This latest promotion features one-way fares as low as $39 and purchases must be made before Thursday Jan. 5. There are a number of restrictions: Sale fares are limited to Tuesdays and Wednesdays for travel between Jan. 10 and April 3 with blackout dates of Feb. 16-27 and between Jan. 10-Feb. 15 for routes to/from Florida; Austin, Texas; Phoenix; Puerto Rico; or any international city. A 7-day-advance purchase is required. Here is all the fine print.

Some sample one-way fares from Boston's Logan International Airport: $34 to Baltimore; $39 to Buffalo, Washington, DC (both Dulles and Reagan), Newark, N.J.; Pittsburgh, and Richmond, Va.; $59* to Charlotte, N.C.; $69* to Chicago and Raleigh-Durham, N.C.; $99 to Tampa, Denver, Jacksonville, Fla., Phoenix, Orlando; $109 to Fort Lauderdale and Santiago, DR; $129* to New Orleans, Seattle, San Juan, PR, and Santo Domingo, DR; $134 to Austin; $149* to Los Angeles and San Diego; $159 to Las Vegas and San Francisco; and $199 to Aruba.

Virgin America goes just coast-to-coast from Boston so one-way sale fares to either San Francisco or Los Angeles are $128 Monday-Thursday and Saturday and $149 Friday and Sunday for travel from Dec.15- March 14. Tickets must be purchased before Dec. 1 and require a 7-day advance purchase. Blackout dates are Dec. 22-24, 26, Jan. 2, Feb. 17, and Feb. 20, 2012.

Sale fares must be purchased before Dec. 2 and they start as low as $59 for travel Dec. 8-Feb. 15. Note that there are blackout dates -- Dec. 22-Jan. 3 and all Sundays -- and a 10-day advance purchase is required. Here is the fine print for Southwest and for its AirTran unit. It may pay to shop around as I expect competitors will start matching fares and you might be able to get better flight days/times.

Fares begin as low as $59 and must be purchased before Nov. 15 for travel Nov. 14-Feb. 14, and though it ends on Valentine's Day the carrier gives up little love for the holidays as the exclusion dates include: Nov. 20 and 23, Nov. 26 -28, and Dec. 22 - Jan. 3.

Two weeks ago, I wrote about how it appears holiday travelers will be paying more for airline tickets this year as the carriers, facing surging fuel prices, have been boosting tickets prices in the wake of plans to make deeper cuts than usual for the holiday season to ensure fuller planes and higher fares.

If you can work around the blackout dates, prices are pretty good. Here is the fine print and some sample one-way fares from Boston:

$59: Baltimore, Buffalo, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

$79: Raleigh-Durham

$117: Cleveland

$121: Chicago

$127: Minneapolis/St. Paul

$129: Denver

$132: Milwaukee

$137: Columbus

$139: Nashville

$142: Kansas City

$144: Jackson, Miss.

$147: San Antonio

$149: Los Angeles, Burbank, Calif., Ontario/LA, Orange County, San Diego

$158: Louisville, Ky., Panama City Beach

$159: Birmingham, Ala., Tucson, Sacramento

$161: St. Louis

$162: Albuquerque, Salt Lake City

$165: Houston

$168: Detroit

$178: Reno/Lake Tahoe

$179: Little Rock

$184: Phoenix, San Jose, Calif.

$187: Portland, Ore.

$194: Oklahoma City

$199: Dallas, El Paso, Tulsa

This is the second one-day sale in the past three weeks, which suggests that carrier is nearly done backing and filling spots in its fall schedule. One-way fares from Boston begin at $39 (Buffalo, N.Y, Baltimore, Newark, and Richmond, Va.) and go to $179 (Las Vegas) for travel between Oct. 11-Dec. 15, with blackout dates of Nov. 18-28. Discounts are available on Monday-Thursday and Saturdays (in other words, not Friday or Sunday) for domestic routes and on Monday-Thursday for international ones. Here's all the fine print.

The sale fares are good for travel Sept. 27-Dec. 15 and any day, except Friday or Sundays, with blackout dates of Oct. 5-11 and Nov. 18-28. Here's the all the fine print. Prices pretty much reflect the basic JetBlue discounts. Some one-way fares from Boston's Logan International Airport to: Baltimore, Newark, N.J., and Richmond, Va. $39; Chicago, Washington (Dulles), Pittsburgh, and Buffalo, N.Y. $44; Washington (Reagan), New York (JFK) $49; Raleigh-Durham $54; Charlotte $64, Jacksonville, Fla., $89; Bermuda $99; Denver, Nassau, and San Juan P.R. $119; Phoenix $129, Austin, Texas and Las Vegas $139; Los Angeles, Aruba, and San Diego $149; and San Francisco $169.

Remember, there are restrictions and to get these fares you need to buy by midnight.

From now through May 23, Enterprise Rent-A-Car is offering a weekend rates starting at $9.99 per day. The lowest prices are for economy/compact models and they rise with the size of the rental: internediate-size is $14.99; standard is $17.99; and full goes for $19.99.

There is some fine print involved. The sale involves cars rented at participating "neighborhood'' locations, not airports for Fridays to Mondays and includes 100 miles per day, not unlimited mileage.

Still a good deal for the right traveler.

This morning both JetBlue and Southwest launched fall fare sales, with slightly different terms.

To get the JetBlue discounts you must purchase before Sept. 8 for travel between Sept. 13 and Dec. 15, any day except Friday and Sunday. Seven-day advance purchase may be required and there are blackout dates. Here is the fine print.

For Southwest, you need to buy before Sept. 9 for travel through Dec. 14, with 10-day advance purchase required. Special prices are good on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays. Here is the fine print.

The prices look pretty good but it will pay to shop around as I would expect competitor airlines will try to match fares on selected routes.

By Jan Shepherd, Globe Correspondent

After the 1906 earthquake devastated San Francisco, the city focused on rebuilding all aspects of life for residents. Among the positive signs for the nation's 10th largest city was the debut of the San Francisco Symphony on Dec. 29, 1911.

In honor of its centennial the orchestra, led by Michael Tilson Thomas, celebrates with special programs for the 2011-12 season. Beginning the festivities with a Sept. 7 gala concert evening at Davies Symphony Hall, the music moves outdoors the next day with a free concert in the Civic Center Plaza.

Among other season highlights are "American Mavericks," a series of concerts featuring risk-taking composers over the last 100 years, and "America's Great Orchestras." The latter series presents guest appearances by the country's six leading orchestras from Cleveland, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Los Angeles. San Francisco Symphony Davies Symphony Hall, Van Ness and Grove streets. 415-864-6000.

Photo of Michael Tilson Thomas with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2010 by Hilary Scott

Virgin America has just launched a sale for purchases through Sept. 1, with one-way fares to San Francisco and Los Angeles as low as $159 for flights on Monday-Thursday and Saturday and $169 to travel on Friday and Sunday. These prices are good for travel from Sept. 7-Dec. 15 and a seven-day purchase is required.

From Logan International, San Francisco-based Virgin flies direct only to SFO and LAX, but it does so in media style, with 3,000 MP3s onboard, a 110v power source at your seat, satellite TV, pay-per-view Hollywood movies on demand, and fee-based WiFi. And the mood lighting -- which for some is not a plus.

Anyway, the sale prices are pretty good and Virgin doesn't have sales that often.

Yesterday we wrote about a one-day JetBlue fall sale with one-way fares as low as $39 from Boston for travel through Dec. 15. The carrier has extended that sale until midnight tonight. No wonder. That decision comes after Southwest and American also launched sales of their own that run until midnight tomorrow night for travel through Dec. 14. The sales all come with restrictions (some have 10-day advance purchase restrictions) and all have blackout dates and limits on travel days. But it looks like the best and widest range of discounts and destinations are available though JetBlue and American. Here is the fine print for JetBlue, American, and Southwest. Start shopping.

By Katie Johnston Globe Staff

JetBlue Airways is giving Boston business travelers their own version of the popular All You Can Jet pass.

From Aug. 22 to Nov. 22, passengers can take an unlimited number of flights to 55 destinations out of Logan International Airport for a flat rate of $1,999. For $1,499, Boston pass holders can fly to 13 nonstop destinations, mainly on the East Coast. This BluePass, aimed at business customers, is more flexible than the All You Can Jet pass, allowing travelers to book and change flights up to 90 minutes before departure without a penalty.

Pass holders can also miss two scheduled flights in a week without being penalized. Access to seats with more legroom and priority boarding are not included.

The BluePass goes on sale today at www.jetblue.com/bluepass and will be available until Aug. 31, or while supplies last. The one-month All You Can Jet pass sold out within a few days both times the airline offered it.

Between 15 and 20 percent of JetBlue’s passengers are business travelers, and in Boston, that figure is significantly higher, said Dennis Corrigan, vice president of sales and revenue management for the airline.

“As we’ve been really building out the Boston network, and we’ve primarily focused on business destinations, it was just a no-brainer,” he said.

JetBlue is also offering the BluePass to customers in Long Beach, where it is also the largest carrier.

Under 21 and a traveler? Your life just got a little easier.

Car rental agencies favor customers 25 and older, charging much higher rates to those who are younger. And if you're younger that 21, for the most part you can just forget it.

Fox Rent A Car, a discounter with shops at a dozen US airports, mostly in the West (including San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle) has announced that it will rent to drivers as young as 20. And, while Fox, like its competitors, does levy a surcharge for younger drivers, its fee is significantly lower than most.

The big guys like Alamo, Avis, Budget, and Thrifty generally require drivers to be at least 21 to rent, according to the Budget Travel blog. These companies make some exceptions under special circumstances -- like for on-duty military personnel, who can usually qualify to rent at age 18, and in a couple of states like New York and Michigan, where local law requires that drivers as young as 18 be allowed to rent. One notable exception is Hertz, which regularly rents to drivers as young as 20.

The vast majority of those companies who rent to drivers under-25 sticks them with surcharges of as much as $52 per day, with youngest drivers getting hit hardest. Hertz typically levies a daily charge of $15-$25, but currently is offering a deal through Sept. 30 in which they will waive that fee for those who use the promotion code 144314 when reserving their cars. Fox, on the other hand, charges all younger renters a flat $14 per day surcharge and combines it with rental fees that tend to be lower than the major rental companies. Worth checking out.

Looking to travel this fall? I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, after writing about sales from Southwest, AirTran, and JetBlue, that we were entering the fall sale period. Today, both JetBlue and Southwest announced discounts for travel through the fall, but there is some difference in terms.

The JetBlue sale is a 48-hour deal so you must book before midnight Wednesday July 20 for travel from Sept. 6-Nov. 16. Discounts are not available on all days or flights; blackout dates are Oct. 6-11. Here is the fine print and some sample one-way fares from Boston: to Baltimore, $39; Washington, (Dulles), New York City (JFK), Pittsburgh, and Newark, N.J. $44; Washington, DC (Reagan) $49; Chicago (O'Hare) $52; Richmond, Va., and Bufffalo, N.Y. $54; Raleigh-Durham, N.C. $69; Charlotte, N.C. $74; Jacksonville, Fla., $84; Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Tampa, and Bermuda $99; Denver, San Juan, P.R., and New Orleans $119; Austin and Phoenix $129; Long Beach and Los Angeles $149; San Jose, Calif., $159; San Diego and San Francisco $169; and Seattle $179.

Southwest sale prices are available for purchase until Aug. 2 for travel between Aug. 23-Dec. 14. Black out dates include all Fridays and Sundays as well as Sept. 1-5 and Nov. 17-29. Here is the fine print and some sample one-way fares from Boston: Philadelphia $39; Baltimore $59; Pittsburgh $89; Denver $119; Chicago $134; Kansas City $156; Oklahoma City $179; and St. Louis $149.

You'll notice the JetBlue fares are better, but they are only available through tomorrow and only through the JetBlue website --- in other words you won't find these prices on Travelocity, Orbitz, Expedia, or any of the others. Also note that it's likely other carriers will be looking to match -- or better --- some prices of some competitive routes so it could pay to shop around.

UPDATE 11:48 a.m.

AirTran, which was recently acquired by Southwest, has also sprung a fall sale. For this one, you must book by Aug. 1 for travel to most destinations July 30-Nov. 16., with lowest fares available for travel Tuesdays and Wednesdays. A 10-day advance purchase required, and blackout dates are July 29 and 31; and Aug. 5, 7, 12, 14 and 21. Here's the fine print and some sample one-way fares from Boston: Atlanta and Newport News/Williamsburd, Va., $84; Akron/Canton, Dayton, Memphis, Pensacola/Gulf Coast, Richmond, and Sarasota/Bradenton $94; Flint and Grand Rapids Mich., and Miami $99; Bloomington/Normal, Ind., and Charlotte $104; Bermuda and Nassau $109; Wichita $114; Cancun and Rochester, N.Y., $119; Montego Bay and Branson, Mo., $129; Key West $134; Huntsville, Ala., $144; San Juan, P.R. $149; Des Moines $159; and Aruba $164.

By Patricia Borns, Globe Correspondent

Wow. Saul Deli exec chef Peter Levitt is taking to the Berkeley streets with a sustainably correct deli menu of corned beef on challah roll, potato latke, chicken matzoh ball soup, sweet peach and brandied prune kugela and more. The bites are priced for thrift at $2-$4. Levitt will be cooking at the Off the Grid street food event in Berkeley which recently had its soft launch. An estimated 2,000 eaters attended, cleaning out some of the trucks. Food trucks being huge investments, Levitt will be cooking from Off the Grid’s own truck, which allows chefs to test-run the experience of operating a food truck. Berekely’s Off The Grid street food parties take place at Shattuck Ave. and Rose St. on Wednesdays. Keep up with them on the Berkeley Off The Grid Facebook page.

Photo by Kukkurovaca.

By Paul E. Kandarian, Globe Correspondent

Beringer Vineyards is hosting its second annual  Great Steak Challenge, with a grand prize of $25,000. Making the cut of 10 finalists competing for it gets you an expense-paid trip to Napa for a grill-off, hosted by Food Network celebrities, Jamie and Bobby Dean, sons of southern cooking specialist and cooking-show host, Paula Deen.

Entrants can also win a chance to be included in a virtual cookbook the Deens will compile based on their favorite recipes from the competition.

Entry deadline is July 14. To enter, submit your most creative steak recipes at the Great Steak Challenge. Recipes are judged on taste appeal, wine pairing and simplicity. From there, 30 entrants advance to round two, and send in a homemade video highlighting their recipe pairing and grilling skills. Ten finalists from that bunch win a trip for two to Napa Valley for four days and three nights, and a spot on the final grill-off in early October, filmed to air on the network’s Cooking Channel.

So get busy grilling. You can buy a lot of steaks for $10,000.

By Patricia Borns, Globe Correspondent

Full-sized fried drumsticks. Veggie pockets stuffed with fungi, shallots, parmesan, and creme fraiche. With new Bay area mobile gourmets hitting the street almost every day, how does an eater keep up? Off the Grid organizes weekly street food parties so you can find them in one place without Twitter.

There's a street food party for every day of the week, starting with the grandaddy at San Francisco's Fort Mason on Fridays from 5 to 10pm, where 30 vendors and tents gather. Recently Berkeley's Gourmet Ghetto became Off the Grid's first East Bay location. The party's on every Wednesday from 5pm - 9pm at Shattuck and Rose. Five trucks work the scene regularly and five more rotate in and out, so the menu's
constantly refreshed.

While you're in town, you might see exec chef Peter Levitt brining, curing, rubbing and smoking his own pastrami at Saul's Restaurant and Deli on Shattuck Ave. When his sole supplier of grass-fed organic beef pastrami skipped state to Nebraska, Levitt decided to do it in-house as a labor of love. Just not every day.

First, the deal. Southwest has sprung a sale. You must purchase before Friday and travel is good June 1-Oct. 5, with blackout dates of June 30, July 2, Sept. 1 and 5. There is a 14-day advance purchase requirement and best prices apply every day except Fridays and Sundays. Here's the fine print.

Now a few words about sales. I used to include a series of caveats about discounted fares in every blog I wrote about deals but stopped because it began to seem redundant. But based on comments we've been getting lately it seems that we might need to repeat them periodically.

When an airline puts seats on sale, it doesn't necessarily mean that you can't get a better price for your destination. A lot depends on what the competition is like on various specific routes and whether the route you want is a key one for the carrier holding the sale. When a airline does launch a sale, competitors often will try to match, at least.

So what should you do if you happen to be in the market for a flight? When a sale is announced, go check out the fare but also look around. For starters, just to get a sense of the competitive environment, get on a fare aggregator like kayak and plug in your dates and compare (but don't assume what you're looking at is definitive; aggregators don't necessarily have prices from all the airlines -- kayak, for instance, is blocked from Southwest's schedule). Also move your travel times and dates around --- it's usually cheapest to fly midweek and Saturdays.

Remember, airlines launch sales to ensure that a good base of seats are filled. They very, very, very seldom, if ever, discount all seats on all flights to all destinations. That means sale seats are limited. So, it's possible that you may not be able to get a seat at an advertised rate on your planned day of travel; but if a competitor is trying to match sale fares you might be able to snag a better deal elsewhere. Or if your route is one that a competitor values highly -- and offers many flights to --- and doesn't want to get beat .... you get the drift.

Bottom line: Always shop around. But also consider that it is getting tougher to get great deals. So if you know you are going to travel and you see a good fare jump on it.

A group of university scientists with expertise in imaging and cancer are questioning the safety of full-body X-ray scanners used by the Transportation Safety Administration.

TSA officials have said that the radiation from a scan is equivalent to the amount received during two minutes of flight, and Rapiscan, the firm that makes the machines, argues that scans are safer than eating a banana, which contains potassium that is very slightly radioactive.

But a letter sent to White House science adviser John Holdren from five professors from the University of California, San Francisco and a sixth from Arizona State University argues that evidence made public of the system's safety is neither complete nor persuasive. The missive, first reported by ProPublica.org, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization, also asks why the TSA won't make scanners available for testing by independent scientists.

TSA's full body scanners use so-called backscatter technology, a fast-moving X-ray that bounces off the skin and creates an image of the passengers body. The beam does not pass through the body so the skin receives most the radiation exposure. The system has been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes for Standards and Technology, and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, according to ProPublica.

The group of scientists raising doubts about the scan's safety point out that the Johns Hopkins lab didn't test an actual airport machine, instead it used a system configured like one previously tested by TSA. They also noted that the device used to measure radiation levels, an ion chamber, could get overwhelmed by the high amount of radiation emitted by the backscatter device in a short period of time and might not provide accurate readings.

ProPublica reported that a number of scientists, including some who believe the amount of scan radiation to be minimal, say that more safety tests should be run, given TSA's plans for widespread use of the system.

Photo of full-body scan at Logan International Airport by John Tlumacki/Globe Staff

There are solid discounts, but the travel window is tight (May 24 to June 22), blackout dates (May 26-31), and other restrictions. Here's the fine print.

The prices, however, while not off-the-hook, are pretty good. Some sample one-way fares from Boston:

$39 to Baltimore; $44 to Washington, DC (Dulles); $49 to Pittsburgh, New York City (JFK), Newark, N.J.; $54 to Richmond, Va., Washington, DC (Reagan); $64 to Raleigh-Durham; $79 to Charlotte; $89 to Jacksonville; $92 to Orlando; $99* to Tampa, Chicago, (O'Hare), Bermuda, West Palm Beach; $109 to New Orleans; $119 to Cancun, Mexico, Denver; $129 to Phoenix; $139* to San Jose, Calif.; $149* to San Francisco, Long Beach, or Los Angeles; $159 to Portland, Ore., or San Diego

By Kari Bodnarchuk, Globe Correspondent

If you and Rover spend Father’s Day in California, consider joining the Run in the Name of Love, a 2K run-walk in dog-friendly Carmel-by-the-Sea. The June 19 event is open to a maximum of 300 participants and their canines. Dogs under 50 pounds receive a race shirt ($16 extra), while larger ones receive a bandanna ($8). There is also a people-only 5K run for up to 1,000 participants. Race founder Susan Love organized the runs, which benefit two local youth programs, in memory of her son, who died in a snowboarding accident. Registration until June 12: $35 for 5K and $25 for 2K.

831-625-3757, www.runinthenameoflove.org

Photo: Run in the Name of Love