Its getting tougher to find great fares. The price of oil continues to rise and airlines (including low cost carriers) continue to drop out of the market. In only the past few weeks, we’ve seen four airlines announce they have ceased, or will soon cease, operations: Aloha, ATA, Skybus, and Champion Air. And late Thursday […]
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Check the Code Share Flights
Published by April 12th, 2008 in Air France, Airline Operations, Airlines, American Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Cheap tickets, Delta Airlines, Discount travel, Flight numbering, TAM, US Airways and United Airlines. 0 CommentsWhich is cheaper: A Three-Month or Four-Month Advanced Purchase?
Published by February 11th, 2008 in Airlines, Cheap tickets, Discount travel, General and Revenue management. 0 CommentsWe are one month into our four-month fare experiment. One month ago, we began a fare analysis study to examine how the best fares for a given airline on a given route change between buying a ticket four months before take off all the way up to buying it one week before departure. Our […]
Flying the Fifth Freedom: Cheaper or More Expensive?
Published by December 12th, 2007 in Africa, Air New Zealand, Airlines, All Nippon Airways, American Airlines, Asia, Auckland, Australia, Aviation Policy, Bangkok, Bilateral agreements, Brazil, British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Cheap tickets, China, Continental Airlines, Dakar, Delta Airlines, Discount travel, Emirates, Europe, Heathrow, Hong Kong, JFK, Japan, Japan Airlines, Johannesburg, LAN Airlines, London, Los Angeles, Manila, New York City, New Zealand, Northwest Airlines, Palau, Philippines, Sao Paulo, Senegal, South Africa, Sydney, TAM, Thailand, Tokyo, USA, United Kingdom and Virgin Atlantic. 0 CommentsGenerally, airlines carrying passengers between two countries are the flag airlines of either the origin or destination country, such as a US or Mexican airline carrying passengers between the United States and Mexico. But, as we discussed in our post on Monday, some airlines have Fifth Freedom rights to fly and carry passengers between two […]
Cheap Intra-Europe Fares
Published by December 6th, 2007 in Cheap tickets, Discount travel and Europe. 0 CommentsIf you’re looking for great fares on intra-Europe flights, check out TerminalA.com. It’s a Spanish site so I hope your Spanish is up to par—actually, even if it isn’t don’t worry as the site is fairly straight-forward. (If you need to, you can also copy and paste Spanish text into this translation site, select “Spanish […]
Expedia, Hotwire, Travelocity, or Airline Sites?
Published by December 4th, 2007 in Airlines, Cheap tickets, Continental Airlines, Delta Airlines, Discount travel, USA and United Airlines. 0 CommentsThere are numerous, and at times competing, websites offering cheap air fares. But which one is best? And is the cheapest fare on these sites cheaper than what you can get directly from the airline?
In this article, we look at domestic routes and compare three popular sites, Expedia, Hotwire, Travelocity, then compare the winning flight […]
Cheaper to Bring the Wife than the Mistress: $170 vs. $934 for Two Tickets
Published by November 29th, 2007 in Air France, Airlines, Cheap tickets, Discount travel, Europe, France, Marseille, Paris, Senior travel and Student travel. 2 CommentsYesterday, my wife was looking for a flight from Marseille (MRS) to Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG). While helping her with this and exploring Air France’s web pages, I came upon two fascinating discoveries: tremendous price differences based on whether or not you’re traveling with family and some fare discrepancies between the airline’s US and […]
Cheap Ticket Strategies for Thanksgiving
Published by November 17th, 2007 in Cheap tickets, Discount travel, Holidays and USA. 0 CommentsWe are only about five days away from Thanksgiving–and you were holding out for last minute travel specials? Planes are fuller than ever, but here a few strategies to try to find a good price and still make it home in time for some turkey (when everyone else is eating it too).
1. Check an airline […]
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