Travel and Outdoors  Airports and Transportation

✈️ 3 wildly cheap flights out of RIC in 2024

Check out some of the year’s cheapest flights leaving our local airport.

September 5, 2024 • 
Sarah Leonhardt
A plane flys over palm trees in a clear sky.

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Great airfare deals do exist — and thanks to flight price tracking services like Going, you can save hundreds on your next trip. Sign up for Going’s two-week free trial of its Premium plan, and you’ll be emailed when international flights leaving our city are seriously discounted.

Here are real flight deals out of RIC the Going team found this year:

  • $381to Anguilla
  • $586 to London
  • $527 to Rome
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