Florida Online Airfare Booking Information - Part 2
Florida Online Airfare Booking Information - Part 2
This online travel agency (1travel) provides discounted travel prices on everything from all-inclusive vacations to one-way flights. It also lets users sign up for free, customized weekly e-mail that alerts travelers to last-minute, low-cost fares. Its Fare Beater feature automatically searches for lower priced flights on similar days and routes.Airtech
If your travel plans are flexible, then Airtech may be able to find you an incredibly low fare. The only catch: you have to give Airtech a several-day travel window which means this service only works if you don't have to travel on a specific day.
Cheap Tickets Inc.
Discounted airfare is the name of the game at this Web site. There's great potential for low rates, but availability may be limited.
Best Fares Magazine Online
You have to pay a subscription fee to get access to the best bargains on this site. In the meantime, visit the Free section for deals on discount airfare.
Lowestfare.com
Here's a chance to get a 20-per-cent discount off most major airlines' published fares, with price reductions on both domestic and international flights available. Though it offers deals on last-minute getaways and cruises, its primary focus is discount airfares.
Travel Scape
Orbitz
We decided to test drive these budget Web sites. We began searching for flights from New York to Tampa using two different scenarios - one as a single passenger arriving and departing on a weekend and another as a single passenger traveling midweek. Both trips involved one-week stays.
It took 1travel.com just a few minutes to drum up several flight options, though many required a stopover. The lowest price midweek was about $220 US for a return flight. A weekend flight came in at approximately the same rate.
We had better luck with Lowestfare.com. Both the midweek and weekend non-stop return flights were priced as low as $172. Even more surprising was the fact that both flights still had seats available. (Availability is often a problem on flights offering the lowest prices.) The Lowestfare.com Web site also listed special fares for departures from selected cities throughout the U.S. One deal offered a one-way ticket from Chicago to Orlando for $101.
For comparison's sake, we tried the same search on the American Airline's site. The price difference was startling - one-way flights started as low as $89 and ran as high as $524, with every price imaginable in between.
A random search on the Web uncovered two other sites - economytravel.com(an international airfare consolidator) and intelliTRIP.com. Both sites deal in international travel and offer simple-to-follow instructions. After a quick search, we found direct flights to Tampa midweek for about $270 US per person and about $220 return for a weekend flight through economytravel.com. IntelliTRIP.com asks for your travel information, then searches several different airlines until it comes up with flights that match your criteria. Next it lists each flight in order from lowest to highest fare. For both the midweek and weekend flights, the best price was $235 for a return flight with no stopovers.
I HEAR $250 - WHO'LL GIVE ME $275?
LivingToday.tv - February 22nd, 2005
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