Comparison Shopping for an Inexpensive Flight Ticket
This holiday season, competition between airlines will dictate the going rate of your flight ticket. Travel columnist Tom Belden recently discussed how one Philadelphia-Boston business traveler was shocked to see US Airways offering a basic round-trip coach ticket costing $1,115 for the 281-mile route, even if he purchased two months in advance! To find a better way, this passenger considered driving or taking the train from Philly to Newark, New Jersey, where he could hop aboard a $270 US Airways flight to Boston, which ironically connected through Philadelphia. "Think about the irony," Belden writes. "The travelers on US Airways could wind up on the Philadelphia-Boston leg of the trip sitting next to someone who got on in Philadelphia and paid five times as much." Since Delta pulled its Philadelphia-Boston route in August, there is no competition among carriers, Belden argues. To sort through this madness, many holiday travelers will visit www.farecompare.com, a website full of researched flight deals, in order to find an inexpensive flight ticket.
FareCompare is a new website geared toward helping you find an inexpensive flight ticket, and each day processes feeds from over 500 airlines and more than 270,000 city pairs worldwide. You'll even see fares from carriers like Jet Blue or Southwest, which typically don't share their deals with aggregator websites. Their high-tech software delivers fast results for an enjoyable shopping experience. On this website, you can find cut-rate tickets for domestic and international travel, discounted first class flight ticket deals and expert insider travel advice. In addition to finding great deals on flights, you will also find up-to-date information on cheap hotel rooms too.
One of the popular features of www.farecompare.com is the automated flight ticket "Deal Alerts." You can receive deal alerts by email at www.farecompare.com/signup or you can receive Twitter updates linked to your airport at www.farecompare.com/twitter. The FareCompare Twitter page currently indexes travel deals from more than 100 airports in the US and Canada. If you'd prefer not to sign up for anything, you can also use the site's "One-Click To Savings" travel calendar, which shows you the most inexpensive flight ticket on a particular route based on which days you travel.
FareCompare has also released a Holiday Travel Buyers Guide to help you find the best hotel and flight ticket deals. Darker colors on the Christmas calendar will alert you to the most expensive dates to fly. The site has also alerted consumers to a brand new "Peak Travel Surcharge" of $10 each way on December 19, December 26, December 27, January 2 and January 3. According to Rick Seaney, FareCompare founder, the first wave of holiday discounts came in September and another in mid-October, offering as much as 15-20% off last year's airline ticket prices.
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