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Travel agencies always advertise that you are saving a bundle of money if you book the flight
and hotel stay as a package. The truth is that you will actually only save something like 5% (if you
are lucky) of the original cost. The savings of booking an airfare and hotel package are usually
between the ranges of 2 – 6%.
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Airline Food
Check out the site http://www.airlinemeals.net if you wonder what kind of food you will be served on the airplane. This site shows photos of the food that are served on most of the airlines.
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Once you have boarded the plane, there are a few more tricks to consider to ensure a smooth flight. The size of your seat will definitely influence your comfort during the flight. Airline seats are usually 17 inches wide – don’t get stuck in anything smaller than that. Avoid these seats at all cost
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Try this trick if you want to get a refund on a nonrefundable ticket: Phone your local city’s courthouse and volunteer for jury duty. Most of the airlines will refund a ticket if you have to show up for jury duty. Even on tickets that are nonrefundable!
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Find the cheapest flight using the top 10 search engines
Most people love to travel. Unfortunately, budgets these days are tight and we don’t have as much to spend on vacations. The good thing is that there are plenty of options for saving money. One of the best and biggest ways to cut travel costs is to save money on flights. This is where using flight search engines comes in. These are the top ten search engines and some top tips for using them.
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What About Becoming an Airline Courier? Warning, it is dead. If you pay any money for a membership to be a airline courier, you are getting screwed!
Not too long ago, becoming an airline courier was an attractive way to fly on a budget. You basically were hired to bring a package from one place to another and your baggage allotment was “rented out”. You got paid with a low fare for the flight. This arrangement is not very common anymore, because businesses don’t need couriers like they once did as shipping is much more efficient than it was in the past. Another reason is that security laws have become more intricate since the September 11th tragedy.
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Airlines are screwing you on baggage fees, convenience fees, and holiday surcharges, read this to find out how to deal with all this.
What can you do, you can’t get anywhere without paying for the flight - that is obvious. But does that mean the airlines have to take advantage of our dependence on their services? It looks like the answer is yes. In the last couple of years, airlines have been coming up with newer and more interesting ways to get us, their customers, to pay more. A few dollars here, a few dollars there, they come up with a way. They are quite creative about it and it doesn’t look like it is about to stop. What are we talking about? Keep reading.
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The airline screwed you and forced you to give up your seat. Make sure they now compensate you with free meals, accommodation, and upgrades on your next flight. Here is how…
Giving up your seat?
If you’ve ever been asked to give up your seat on a flight or bumped off a flight because the airlines overbooked it, you know that you are entitled to compensation. What kind of compensation is another question altogether. The important thing to remember is that when you discuss your compensation with the gate agent, that particular person has a great deal of authority in making the decision what to give you. He or she can decide to give you a lot more or a lot less depending on your behavior. So be polite and friendly and know what your rights are. This is the best way to get the most from the airline.
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Your guide to scoring free vouchers from the airlines
Think about it – a lot of times you just have to make that flight and you cannot afford a change in your busy schedule. Then again, there are times when you have a little time to spare and it won’t be such a problem to volunteer to give up your seat on the plane….especially if you will receive generous compensation, which will make it more than worth your while. If you can take the time to volunteer to get on a later flight, you will not only be doing something which will be to your own advantage, but you may be doing a good deed for a fellow traveler who needs to get on that flight even more than you do.
You may call it a game....it’s a game where everyone wins. Your frantic fellow passenger gets a comfortable seat on the plane and although you have to wait a while, you receive a prize for waiting. Sounds good, doesn’t it?
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Are you having a tough time figuring out airline prices? If you are as confused as most people, you have come to the right place. It’s all a matter of understanding the monster you are facing on the runway to your flight. Are you wondering why the seats on every Friday flight from New York to Seattle in March cost $975? Or why the price of a flight from Minneapolis to Washington DC changes every time you go online?
There are three forces at work in this business: competition between airlines, the demands of the market, and what seats are actually available. Keep in mind that even the higher echelons of airline management have trouble understanding the system. So we will try to the best of our abilities to explain. All the main airlines work with four travel reservation systems, owned by a few of these airlines. These systems are constantly revising flight prices and the availability of seats. The airlines continually change prices in response to the demand for particular flights. When a certain flight is in demand, its price goes up. When another flight is not doing well, the price goes down until the demand for it increases. As you can see both prices and the access to a seat on the flight you want change by the hour, even by the minute.
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Your frequent flyer points are worth money. Are you using them and how much are they worth?
As a frequent airline passenger, you are amassing miles. What are these miles actually worth? It may seem hard to figure this out, but it is really pretty simple. The value of each mile is anywhere from one US cent to three US cents. If you are wondering what this actually means, try to do the math. If you have accumulated 25,000 miles and you want to reserve a flight, and each mile is worth one cent, the flight you want to take should have a price of at least $250 USD. If a mile is worth two cents, then select a flight which costs $500.
The idea is to make use of your miles in the most cost-efficient manner. In this case, if you are thinking of purchasing a ticket with a price a lot less than $250, you might want to reconsider. It may not be worth it to use your miles for this flight. Either save them for another time, or consider taking a different flight.
A lot of travelers don’t think about what their miles are really worth and it’s a shame –they could be making much better use of them!
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Understand how peak and off-peak travel is determined. Once you know how to figure this out you can find the cheapest flights available.
“Peak” and “off-peak” travel: have you been wondering what these words really mean? These terms are often thrown around by travel experts, travel agencies, hotel, and airlines. Taking a little “peek” into the subject, we will find that there are just as many exceptions to the rules as there are rules themselves.
So….here are the five words you need to remember when considering when to fly: day, time, season, holiday, and destination. Day is the day of the week, time is the time of day. Season is obviously the season you are planning to fly, summer, winter, spring or fall. Holiday – are you traveling before or during a holiday? And lastly, your destination: where are you going? All of these five issues will affect the price of your ticket and other things like how crowded the plane will be and if there will be long lines at the ticket counter.
The best and most comfortable time to travel is at the off-peak times. Armed with this knowledge, you can enjoy your flight more and pay less!
So you are probably wondering: what day-time-season-holiday-destination is the best?
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