Canadians travellers can save big by flying from a U.S. border city like the Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Bellingham, Detroit, Plattsburgh, Burlington and others.

To help Canadian travellers interested in flying from U.S. border airports, we are happy to announce the launch of BorderFly.ca, a website focusing exclusively on flights, airport hotels and travel deals from 19 U.S. airports near the Canadian border.

Visit BorderFly.ca:  Save up to 70% on flights and airport hotels when you fly from a U.S. border city airport. Popular airports include the Buffalo Airport, Bellingham Airport, Detroit Airport, Plattsburgh Airport, Burlington Airport, Niagara Falls Airport and more!

BorderFly.ca features include:

Flight Bookings: Save up to 70% when you compare and book flights through our online travel partners.

Airport Hotel Rate Comparisons: Compare rates for airport hotels and sleep, park and fly packages in U.S. cities near the Canadian border.

Travel Tips & Information: Get valuable travel tips and information exclusively for Canadians flying from U.S. border city airports.

Travel Deals – COMING SOON!: We work directly with airlines, airports and hotels to bring you travel, parking and sleep, park & fly deals from U.S. border airports.

Online Cross Border Shopping: Get the latest online deals from U.S. Retailers!

We know it's a little early in the year to start thinking about Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but it's never too early to start thinking about big savings.

So, we wanted to remind all you cross border shoppers that in 2012, Cyber Monday will be on Monday, November 26th and Black Friday will be on Friday, November 23rd.

We also wanted to let you know that for the first time, we are considering creating a section on our website dedicated exclusively to brining Canadians the best Cyber Monday deals from U.S. online retailers. The section would also include tips and information for Canadians on shipping your U.S. Cyber Monday purchases to the border to save on shipping costs.

We know most of you prefer to head to the U.S. to do your cross border shopping, but if you're interested in doing some Cyber Monday cross border shopping online, please let us know. The more interest we recieve from you, the more resources we can dedicate to bringing you Cyber Monday deals from U.S. online retailers.

We encourage you to show your interest in 3 ways:

1. Join the Cross Border Club (if you haven't already), as club members will receive important updates about our Cyber Monday plans
2. Send us a message to let us know are interested in Cyber Monday cross border shopping
3. Comment on this blog post below

For those of us who were hoping for the introduction of a duty free allowance for same day cross border shopping trips, we recieved some disappointing news last week.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty rejected a request from U.S. Congressman Bill Owens asking that a same day duty free allowance be introduced for Canadians, similar to the same day duty free allowance that is available to U.S. citizens returning from day trips to Canada (currently, Americans are entitled to bring $200 worth of goods back to the U.S. on a tax free basis when they visit Canada for less than 24 hours).

While the request was rejected at this time, Congressman Owens states that he hoped a same day duty free allowance could be worked out at a later date.

Let's hope he's correct. We'll be sure to keep you posted, as we know a same day duty free exemption would be welcomed by cross border shoppers.