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Summer flights: buy now or wait? Advice from CheapAir.com
- by Jeff
- on April 5th, 2011
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We get this question all the time: “Should I buy my tickets now for the summer, or do you think fares will drop if I wait?”
It’s a great question given that air fares in general are pretty high right now. In fact, airlines have successfully raised domestic fares six times already since the beginning of the year. Plus, they have significantly increased fuel surcharges on international flights, to the tune of $400 per round trip ticket for flights from the U.S. to Europe! Over the next six months, odds are good that average fares will continue to rise.
The Top 5 Things that Suck about Travel Sites
- by Jeff
- on December 7th, 2010
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Why does buying an airline ticket on-line have to be such a mission?
Yea, it’s true that if I know exactly which airline I want to fly or exactly which flights I want to take, most of the sites out there can help me pretty easily. But what if I don’t know which airline? What if I want to rely on a booking site to actually point out for me the airline and flights that are the best combination of cheap and convenient? Then, it becomes a wrenching experience. So please indulge me for a second and allow me to vent. Here is my list of the Top 5 things that suck about on-line travel sites:
What are We Doing Here?
- by Jeff
- on December 1st, 2010
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Although you’d never know it from reading through our site, we have big plans for Flightster.com that go beyond just bringing together a bunch of great writers to share some cool travel stories. We’ve actually been working for most of the year on a new airfare shopping and booking engine that will bring a fresh new perspective to the way to book flights on-line.
