How To Purchase
Airline Tickets For Less

No one wants to pay more for an airline ticket than they should. We all want the most value from our hard earned dollar, right? We want to purchase our airline ticket at the best price.

In my book, "Why Not Fly Free", I show how you can accumulate massive amounts of award miles for free travel. But there may be a time when you need to purchase an airline ticket.

Most of the booking engines online are directly connected to the airlines Central Reservation Systems (CRS), especially if its for domestic USA tickets. So I need to explain something in detail here.

The CRS are the RETAIL fares the airlines PUBLISH to the buying public. They are the highest rates. I have a CRS in my office, AND I also have the database of wholesale fares too.

This is a little known secret most of the buying public knows nothing about.

For instance, the booking engine we use on our family of sites does not contain the airlines published retail fares. Rather it pulls from a database of more than 8 million wholesale fares. Also known as consolidator, bulk or contract fares.

These types of fares can be as much as 70% below the airlines published retail fares. Let me ask you a question, "Which fare would you rather purchase, wholesale or retail?"

Recently, I searched for a fare from New York to Paris on Orbitz^™, one of the supposed leading low fare web sites. The travel days were Thursday to Thursday in August (lower fares are almost always found when you travel in both directions Monday thru Thursday). Anyway, Orbitz^™ returned a fare of $862.00 plus the taxes. I then did a fare search on our site, same days & city pair to be fair, and our search yielded a fare of $719 plus taxes. A savings of $143!

Also, not all consolidator fares are found online! Like I said, our database online contains 8 million consolidator fares to just about anywhere in the world. But we have other contracts that are not allowed by the rules of an airline to be put in the online database. And some of the time, those fares are LESS than those we offer online!

Case in point: There's a wholesale contract we sell from everyday from a European airline that's not in our database online. For the same dates and season that the above example is $862, this fare is $596, an incredible savings of $266!

For our customer's convenience, our phone number is displayed on all our web sites (we have many) for all who would like to talk to an agent. Write this number down, (800)488-7901, you can call us if you cannot find a fare.

So, the trick is to find an agency that sells from the wholesale database and there are many. But not all agencies do so just ask.

David Tinney, an expert in the travel industry, is the owner of Adventure Travel Service and author of the best selling e-guide, Why Not Fly Free? As a subscriber to The Free Travel Report, read the first chapter for free.

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