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Air Travel Center: air carrier database and search tools for
passenger and cargo airlines, airplane and helicopter charter services:

To air carriers across the globe:

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Some notes about shopping airlines directly:

• Published airfares (the ones listed by each airline within their own global distribution system) are the highest price tickets of all. Discounts are offered for booking well in advance of your flight and for booking online. Frequent flier and other awards programs reward loyal fliers for buying directly from the airline. Negotiated, contracted, and consolidated airfares range anywhere from one-half to three-fourths of the cost of published airfares. Special promotions for weekend travel and airfare sales or reverse auctions designed to fill up empty seats sometimes offer the very lowest cost of all tickets.
• Shopping directly with an air carrier has several advantages; You may prefer a particular airline, cargo, or charter service for any number of personal and logical reasons. The down side is that your choices will be limited to those flights, routes, and prices offered by this one carrier and its partner airlines or any code-share agreements with other carriers. Within these limitations, things are getting much better. Web only discounts and special airfares along with hotel, car, and vacation discounts are showing up on airline web sites all over the world. Shopping your favorite carrier's web site is a good idea. When price is equally important to you, just make your preferred airline one source among the "check three" shopping rule.
• Many airlines offer their lowest airfares on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday. These are often lighter travel days ... because business travel is heaviest on: Sunday Night and Monday - Thursday Night and Friday, ... so airlines reduce the airfare to fill seats left empty on light travel days. Advance purchase and a Saturday night stay are typical requirements. One exception to the Saturday night stay is Las Vegas, where a 2-day stay is a common rule. Planning a trip, at least 21 days before departure, leaving on a Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Saturday and staying over a Saturday night is a PLAN.
• Many airlines have "RED-EYE" flights which depart late in the evening or early in the morning on which they can reduce airfares by as much as 25%. (Be sure to ask.) If shopping online, use the parameters offered by a booking engine to set the flight search for late evening, night, or early morning.
• When you feel some comfort with booking your travel arrangements online; you are at a strong advantage. Airlines offer web only discounts at their web site or through subscription email offers sent periodically or specially and through postings on other web sites (like here at the Air Travel Center). The core cause for these discounts is that online bookings are less costly to process and manage - especially e-tickets. A second cause is that through their web site and through subscribed email lists and through postings on other web sites the airlines have a cost efficient and effective way of offering unsold seats at appreciable discounts to a large number of attentive people - like you - wise, wary, and watching. Internet only discounts are a common finding at all air carrier, ticket agent, travel vendor, and travel related web sites for all the same reasons and we can all take the advantage by booking their products and services online.

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