Boasting the Best of Budget Carriers, AirTran Used To Offer College Student Fares That Couldn’t Be Beat AirTran was founded in the early 1990s as a low-budget airline. It would go on to absorb ValuJet Airlines and then was acquired by Southwest Airlines in 2011. At its heyday, AirTran operated around 700 daily flights across … Continue reading AirTran U Fares: How College Students Used To Fly For Nearly Free