BethR----Thanks for your help. I snagged a R/T from LA to Phoenix for $68.00 and another R/T from Phoenix to Nashville for $168.00.
Total with taxes, security fees and the like came to approximately $270.00, saving me some $130.00 vs. flying on any of the majors, such as American & Northwest.
On top of that, those two R/T trips will be my first two trips towards snagging a FREE R/T ticket to ANYWHERE they fly once you've purchased eight or ten R/T trips (not sure which) on their best-on-the-planet-and-ridiculously easy website!!!!!!!!!!!!
Book just EIGHT R/Ts on their VERY easy website and you get a free ticket to ANYWHERE they fly; that's easily the BEST frequent flyer program out there.