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I thought this article might interest someone searching for discounted airline tickets:
A FARE FIGHT - Save big bucks throug the airlines' secret price wars.
Pittsburg to Seattle -$78 roundtrip. Newark to Los Angeles - $88 roundtrip. These are real examples of rock-bottom airfares, available for a few hours, for no apparent reason. And the airlines don't want you to know about them.
Every day, the airlines play a game of brinksmanship. Without warning, one airline will lower a few, a few dozen, or--on rare occasions--all of its fares, often between the cities it serves in the lower 48 states and a competing airline's hubs. The targeted airline then retaliates by slashing fares between its cities and the attacking airline's hubs. This goes on until one airline cries uncle. Usually these "retaliatory" fares last a few hours then they're history.
The challenge is to find these fares before they vaporize. Two websites are particularly good places to start: www.air-fare.com (a.k.a. Internet Air Farees; click on "big fare cuts") and www.bestfares.com (click on "snooze you lose"). Internet Air Fares posts fares each weekday morning. Best Fares updates throughout the day. Both sites focus primaril on domestic fares, though you'll sometimes find bargains for Canada, Europe, Mexico and the Carribbean.
Fares can change dramatically several times a day, so sauvy deal hunters should check routes three or four times a day on travel sites such as Travelocity.com. The hottest fare wars often occur over weekends.
"None of this makes much sence", admits airfare expert Terry Trippler of Cheapseats.com. "But then again, the airline business is rarely rational." George Hobica
A FARE FIGHT - Save big bucks throug the airlines' secret price wars.
Pittsburg to Seattle -$78 roundtrip. Newark to Los Angeles - $88 roundtrip. These are real examples of rock-bottom airfares, available for a few hours, for no apparent reason. And the airlines don't want you to know about them.
Every day, the airlines play a game of brinksmanship. Without warning, one airline will lower a few, a few dozen, or--on rare occasions--all of its fares, often between the cities it serves in the lower 48 states and a competing airline's hubs. The targeted airline then retaliates by slashing fares between its cities and the attacking airline's hubs. This goes on until one airline cries uncle. Usually these "retaliatory" fares last a few hours then they're history.
The challenge is to find these fares before they vaporize. Two websites are particularly good places to start: www.air-fare.com (a.k.a. Internet Air Farees; click on "big fare cuts") and www.bestfares.com (click on "snooze you lose"). Internet Air Fares posts fares each weekday morning. Best Fares updates throughout the day. Both sites focus primaril on domestic fares, though you'll sometimes find bargains for Canada, Europe, Mexico and the Carribbean.
Fares can change dramatically several times a day, so sauvy deal hunters should check routes three or four times a day on travel sites such as Travelocity.com. The hottest fare wars often occur over weekends.
"None of this makes much sence", admits airfare expert Terry Trippler of Cheapseats.com. "But then again, the airline business is rarely rational." George Hobica
