How Not to Let Airline Ticket Websites Fly Away With Your Money
In lieu of saving a dollar or two on airline tickets, airline ticket websites could be flying away with more than just your money.
The internet is full of websites that contain good deals on airline tickets. Customers of such websites need to exercise caution. Some websites have reported deals that are simply too good to be true. Remember the old adage, “if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, it probably is a duck.” So watch out.
These websites attract patrons by slashing airline ticket prices offered elsewhere. They capture your personal information, including credit card number, expiration date, and CVV (credit card verification value, a security feature on credit cards) code. The customer then receives a message that says that the credit card transaction has been declined. Then there are directions on how to wire the money for payment of those tickets. Another variation of this illegal money making scheme has the website give you an error message at the end of the transaction signaling you that there was technical difficulty with instructions on how to pay for the ticket via money order. In reality, many reputable businesses would not do this. Read more »
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January 20, 2008 9:46 am | 
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Buying an Airline Ticket to Europe
The airline ticket is probably going to be the biggest single expense of your trip in and out of Europe, especially if you are coming from Australia or New Zealand. The worst thing you can do is buy your ticket up at the last minute. Although there are some great deals on short notice, you are more likely to get a cheaper flight if you booked well in advance and you can also choose your seat in the flight. If you were still unsure about leaving, than buying a ticket early is a great boost. Once you have a ticket, it feels like there’s no turning back.
The airline ticket is probably going to be the biggest single expense of your trip in and out of Europe, especially if you are coming from Australia or New Zealand. The worst thing you can do is buy your ticket up at the last minute. Although there are some great deals on short notice, you are more likely to get a cheaper flight if you booked well in advance and you can also choose your seat in the flight. If you were still unsure about leaving, than buying a ticket early is a great boost. Once you have a ticket, it feels like there’s no turning back. Read more »
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Cheapest Airfares | CheapFlyer | January 19, 2008 9:46 am | Comments (0)
Airline Ticket Advertised Prices and Surcharges
Due to high fuel prices and often very rapid price spikes in fuel the airline industry at a severe disadvantage indeed. Due to various excuses that are used by bulk oil commodity traders or actual problems, which do severely impact fuel supply and the fact that the airline tickets are sold in advance; it does create a hardship for both consumer and airlines.
Supply spikes can occur for a number of reasons such as an impending show down with Iran over its nuclear weapons manufacturing and sponsoring of International Terrorism or the 2006 Atlantic Tropical Hurricane Season you see? It is for this reason that the subject came up and a moderator in an online think tank was asked the following question; “Are the extra surcharges that influence the price of airline tickets in the advertised price or are they included later?” Read more »
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Airline Ticket – A Trip Of A Lifetime
Exciting times are ahead when you book an airline ticket – at least most of the time. There are exceptions of course, as we can see while at airports watching business passengers in the lounges, laptop on table, checking their email before boarding. Perhaps not the exciting times you envisage when making a trip somewhere for a vacation.
Let’s go back a few years – and with the benefit of a few years behind me I can remember the time when we used to wear our best suits to travel on an aircraft. The process of presenting a ticket was somewhat lengthy and if those of you around my age group can remember, the ticket took the form of a small booklet. I ask this rhetorical question here: What were all those pages for? The carbon copies went through each of four or five pages. Read more »
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Cheapest Airfares | CheapFlyer | January 17, 2008 9:43 am | Comments (0)
Top Ten Secrets to Saving Big Money in the Airline Flights
Do you know that some people travel around the country and abroad, for both business and pleasure, and save bundles of money in the process?
They do that by using little known ways of really taking advantage of the most popular form of transportation – airline flights.
They don’t rely on the ever-famous “airfare price-wars”. They don’t rely on their travel agents to save money while flying.
Certainly, you should not dismiss these two methods. The price-wars can work to your advantage. But depending on them too much is a big mistake. Read more »
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Cheapest Airfares | CheapFlyer | January 16, 2008 9:38 am | Comments (0)
