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Archive-name: travel/air/online-info
Last-modified: 2010/02/07 No changes from last week. See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Please look through this entire document, particularly the PLEASE NOTE at the end, before e-mailing me a question or comment, since most of the questions I get are already answered in it. * What's in this document? There's an enormous amount of information available on the Web about airlines and aviation. This FAQ concentrates on two things: schedules, fares, reservations, and tickets for commercial airlines, and on-line travel agents. We list both airline-sponsored and independent information. The first parts of this FAQ discuss on-line sources of airline schedules and fares, of which there are several general-purpose services. After that it lists airlines that have any of online schedules, fares, reservations, ticket sales, and flight status. Next comes a listing of on-line specials, sources of special fares and other deals available over the net. Many airlines have short-notice specials which are worth checking out. The rest of the FAQ lists travel agents that offer service over the net and have indicated that they'd like to be listed. I am not a travel agent (I consult and write computer books which you can find out about in my web site at http://www.johnlevine.com, and the agent listings are provided free to any agent that asks and sends in a short description of what he or she offers. * Where is this FAQ available? It's on the Web at http://airinfo.travel or http://airinfo.aero. There are, unfortunately, a certain number of out of date copies of this site floating around the net; the only one that's up to date is the one at http://airinfo.travel or http://airinfo.aero. You can also get it by e-mail every Sunday. To get on the mailing list, send a message to majordomo@lists.iecc.com containing the line "subscribe airline". (Don't type the quotes, nor any other punctuation.) * How do on-line reservations work? Four giant airline computer systems in the United States handle nearly all the airline reservations in the country. (They're known as CRSs, for computer reservations systems, or more often now GDS for global distribution systems.) Although each airline has a ``home'' CRS, the systems are all interlinked so that you can, with few exceptions, buy tickets for any airline from any CRS. The dominant systems in the U.S. are Sabre (home to American and US Airways), Galileo (home to United), Worldspan (home to Delta, Northwest), and Amadeus (Continental and many European lines.) The company that owned Galileo and Orbitz recently bought Worldspan, so the two GDS will presumably be merged. Many of the low-price start-up airlines don't participate in any of these systems but have their own Web sites where you can check flights and buy tickets. Southwest, the largest and oldest of the low-price airlines, doesn't participate, either. Southwest's web site gets car and hotel info from Galileo, but the info seems not to flow the other way. Orbitz, one of the big three online travel agencies, runs its own system which is "direct connect" linked directly to many of the airlines. In theory, all the systems show the same data; in practice, however, they get a little out of sync with each other. If you're looking for seats on a sold-out flight, an airline's home system is most likely to have that last, elusive seat. If you're looking for the lowest fare to somewhere, check all four systems because a fare that's marked as sold out on one system often mysteriously reappears on another system. Some airlines have rules about flight segments that are not supposed to be sold together even though they're all available, and at least once I got a cheap US Airways ticket on Expedia, which didn't know about all the US Airways rules even though I couldn't get it on their own site or Travelocity which did know about them. On the other hand, many airlines have available some special deals that are only on their own Web sites and maybe a few of the online agencies. Confused? You should be. We are. The confusion is even worse if you want to fly internationally. Official fares to most countries are set via a treaty organization called the IATA, so most computer systems list only IATA fares for international flights. It's easy to find entirely legal ``consolidator'' tickets sold for considerably less than the official price, however, so an online or offline agent is extremely useful for getting the best price. The airlines also can have some impressive online offers on their web sites. Here's our distilled wisdom about buying tickets online: * Check the online systems to see what flights are available and for an idea of the price ranges. Check more than one CRS. For tickets within the U.S. and Canada, the prices in the CRS are for the most part the real prices that people are paying. See the Big Online Agencies later in this FAQ for some good places to start. * After you have found a likely airline, check that airline's site to see whether it has any special Web-only deals. If a low-fare airline has the route, be sure to check that one too, since most low-fare airlines don't appear in CRS listings. * If your schedule is flexible, check ticket bidding sites including Hotwire (http://www.hotwire.com) and Priceline (http://www.priceline.com) and ticket auctions such as SkyAuction (http://www.skyauction.com/). * You can also talk to travel agents, particularly if it's a route where you aren't eligible for the lowest CRS fares, but remember that agents get no commission on fares visible on the CRS, so you can expect an agent to charge you for ticking them. * For international tickets, do all the steps above in this list, and then check both online and with your agent for consolidator tickets. This is particularly important if you don't qualify for the lowest published fare. See Edward Hasbrouck's Consolidators and Bucket Shops FAQ (http://hasbrouck.org/faq) for much more detailed information on consolidator tickets. * January 2010 industry update The U.S. airline industry is still in dreadful shape, with Aloha, ATA, Skybus, Eos, Silverjet, Maxjet, and now Zoom having shut down unexpectedly in recent months. Midwest is on death watch, Sun Country and Mesa bankrupt but still flying, Frontier went bankrupt but seems poised to survive as part of regional carrier Republic, Air Canada iffy, and the remaining airlines are hanging on with a combination of somewhat higher fares and very full planes, although the weak economy has kept them from raising fares as much as they want. In Europe, Flyglobespan recently failed, Lufthansa has bought and probably will absorb bmi, which will give them a substantial Heathrow hub, and French all-business carrier l'Avion was absorbed into British Airways' Openskies subsidiary, which is looking kind of iffy itself. The drop in fuel prices helps, but doesn't address basic issues of cost structure and overcapacity in the face of falling demand. Airlines have been cutting back schedules as the recession hits their customers, so there will be fewer seats on perhaps more crowded planes. In some cases small several regional jet flights have been replaced by one larger jet, but the overall trend is down. Airlines are scrambling for revenue anywhere they can find it. Fuel surcharges are now common across the industry, and can be several hundred dollars on overseas flights. Most lines now only let you check one bag for free, an increasing number charge for all checked bags, many now charge for picking your own seat, and charge more if you pick a decent seat by an exit row or bulkhead. (The kindest way to think of it is that the prices have increased, but you get a discount if you're willing to fly with no checked bag, sit in a lousy seat, and bring your own lunch.) With the exception of Continental, nobody includes meals on domestic flights any more, although I have to say that the $5 salads and sandwiches are often a lot better than the former free gray-green glop. The airlines that aren't bankrupt have shrunk themselves and tried to raise fares but after a brief profitable period are all deeply back in the red, due to fuel prices. Beyond the ones that have shut down, Mesa Air finally went bankrupt, but is still flying, both its commuter operations and its go! subsidiary in Hawaii. Its survival depends on how successful it is at breaking leases on commuter jets that no longer make sense to use. Midwest will shut down if they don't get more investors soon, and Sun Country's options to emerge from bankruptcy are not promising. A major effect of all of the bankruptcies and downsizing is that airlines are much more thinly staffed than they used to be. That means that problems tend to have worse effects and last longer than they used to be. Northwest and Delta finally agreed to tie the knot, and have mostly merged operations. United, chronically left at the altar, was talking to Continental, who then publicly stated that they're not interested in a merger, but agreed to code-share and for CO to join Star Alliance, replacing what CO had with Northwest and Delta. US Airways slogged through its second bankruptcy, and merged with America West, with the combined company to be called US Airways but run by the management of profitable America West, which hasn't been bankrupt for a couple of years. Their operations still aren't entirely integrated. The staffs of the two airlines never liked each other, causing continuing labor problems. Hawaiian emerged from bankruptcy last year, helped by the collapse of arch-rival Aloha. Air Canada emerged from bankruptcy last year in OK but not great shape, and was been modestly profitable for a while. But the CEO was forced out on April 1 in favor of a bankruptcy specialist, so it's hard to predict. Low-cost competitor JetsGo turned out to be so low cost that it ran out of cash and died, Canjet retreated back to charters, and surviving low cost competitor Westjet isn't competing very hard, although they recently announced a modest alliance with Southwest. Since the UK bomb plot a few years ago, the rules about what you can take with you on the plane rather than check, particularly what amounts of what kind of liquid, and what electronic equipment, have been changing unpredictably from day to day and place to place, despite the fact that the authorities have known for at least a decade that bad guys might try to use liquid bombs detonated by consumer electronic equipment. Passengers are subject to much more extensive screening than in the past, including screening of checked baggage at check-in time, and, according to news reports pat downs that approach groping. Airlines recommend arriving at least an hour earlier than before. In my experience the extra delay is rarely more than 15 minutes, even with the extra baggage screening, although I usually fly out of smaller airports, not big hubs where you can get the killer two hour lines. The TSA has taken over screening at most airports but the inconsistency in procedures from one airport to another, particularly with respect to your shoes, is worse than ever. I've gone through the metal detector, it beeped, I went back and took my shoes off, walked through again, it beeped again, and they didn't notice (so neither did I, since I'm pretty sure I have no plans to blow up any planes.) A variety of extra cost "trusted traveller" may allow people to get through the screening faster, or may just involve waiting in a different line. The TSA makes no promises. They have a web site with estimated wait times (http://waittime.tsa.dhs.gov) based on averages in previous months, not real time numbers. Other changes include: some airports have stopped curb-side baggage check, anything vaguely resembling a knife or lighter may or may not be confiscated (although lighters suddenly stopped being dangerous the first week in August), you're sometimes only allowed one carry-on plus a purse, briefcase, diaper bag or the like, non-passengers aren't allowed past security without a gate pass from an airline, all passengers must have a document that looks like a boarding pass at most airports to get past security, you may have to put your toothpaste and shampoo in a baggie that may have to be a one quart size, some parking areas close to terminals are closed. But check-in clerks no longer ask you whether you packed your own suitcase. * Wow, there's a lot of places to look for plane tickets The original version of this FAQ described only one online source of plane reservations (the late, lamented Easy Sabre) because that's all there was. Now there are approximately fifteen gazillion web sites selling plane tickets. But setting up a system to sell tickets is a lot of work, so in reality most of those web sites funnel into a much smaller number of underlying systems. This means that you aren't likely to find a lot more from visiting a hundred sites than from visiting four or five. Good sites to start at are ITA Software (http://www.itasoftware.com), which uses its own search engine but doesn't sell tickets, and a couple of the comparison sites such as Kayak (http://www.kayak.com). For more detailed suggestions, see How do on-line reservations workearlier in this FAQ. Airlines' own web sites are a notable exception. Even though they are all backed by one of the standard search systems (increasingly a customized version of Orbitz), they each provide access to their own flights without any booking fee. No matter where you find a ticket, it's worth checking the airline's own site to see if it's a few dollars less there. Buying on the airline's own site frequently also makes it easier to pick seats or change tickets later. Most sites are intended for relatively casual travellers, not road warriors who need to know the exact fare class of a ticket, so they can optimize frequent flyer miles and upgrades. For access to detailed fare and class availability information, see Expert Flyer, described later. It costs money, but if you care about that kind of stuff, it's well worth it. * The big online agencies For domestic US tickets and simple international tickets (e.g., a round trip from the US to somewhere else, bought at least a month ahead) the big three are as good a place to start as any. Travelocity: Travelocity (http://www.travelocity.com) is an online agent owned by Sabre. Tickets can be issued as e-tickets or, at extra cost, by mail. There is also a great deal of travel destination information of variable usefulness. Unlike most other web-based systems, it sometimes lets you hold a reservation without buying it. Also handles hotels and rental cars. A nice fare watcher feature lets you list a few routes you're interested in, and it sends you e-mail when an interesting fare becomes available. They have a Vacation Deals page that often has private fares, two-for-one deals, and the like. Their flexible search option provides a fare calendar, table of what fares are available on what dates, that's better than any other site I know. Unfortunately, just because a fare is available on a date doesn't mean that any actual seats are available at that fare, so a certain number of the fares are cruel jokes, great bargains if only the airline would sell you a seat at that fare which they won't. Some fares are marked "good buy" which means that they're only available on Travelocity. But that doesn't mean that they're any cheaper than other fares. They're waiving the booking fee indefinitely, so their prices should be the same as you'll find on airline sites. Travelocity includes a "last minute deals" feature which is a rebranded version of Site59 (http://www.site59.com), which Travelocity owns. Expedia: Expedia (http://www.expedia.com) was Microsoft's flashy entrant into the web travel biz. In July 2001 they sold a controlling interest to USA Networks, owner of Home Shopping Network and other great cultural monuments. In August 2003, the two companies were merged under the extremely trendy name of IAC/InterActive Corp, along with hotels.com, Match.com and LendingTree. In 2005 they admitted that synergy is just a buzzword and spun it off as a separate company. It still has that Microsoft feel. The site is a bit noisy, but it's reasonably easy to negotiate and to find schedules and fares. You have to provide a credit card number to make a reservation, even if you don't want to buy immediately. Early on, when I tried to reserve, it said it the credit card link was down, no reservations possible, call a number in Florida if it's urgent. Yeah, right. (At Microsoft, quality is job 1.1.) It seems to work better now. There's also lots of promos and tie-ins, with Expedia-only special fares. You can sign up for weekly e-mail about best fares on routes you select. They're waiving the booking fee indefinitely, so their prices should be the same as you'll find on airline sites. Orbitz: Orbitz (http://www.orbitz.com), was intended to be the "killer" airline ticket web site. Founded by United, Northwest, Continental, Delta, and American, it was sold in October 2004 to Cendant, a large travel company that owns Avis rent-a-car and Ramada Inns and dozens of other familiar chains, then in July 2007 was spun off as a standalone company along with some smaller travel companies that Cendant bought along the way. At least 30 airlines including the founders are Orbitz charter affiliates, which means they give all of their web fares to Orbitz. It has a very nice lowest fare search engine. You can tell it to add alternate airport within 70 miles, and it gives you the possible routings, cheapest first. It now lets you give a range of dates, or say that you want to take a weekend trip in a particular month, and it gives you a grid showing the lowest available fare for each combination of departure and return dates. They promise unbiased fare and schedule listings, and have agreements with affiliate airlines to include all publicly available fares (a term that is harder to define than it looks) such as web specials. Their search engine does a more thorough job than others (it runs on racks of cheap PCs rather than on expensive mainframe computers) so it'll often find fares and connections that are entirely valid but not shown on other systems. For domestic US tickets on the airlines they include, they're hard to beat, although like other online agencies, they don't include Southwest. For international tickets, particularly on anything more complex than a round-trip, they can be very hit and miss. Try building your trip one leg at a time and watch the price zoom up and down. They also have some spiffy customer service, e.g., they can call you or send a text message to your mobile phone or PDA a few hours before flight time to tell you your gate and whether there are delays. They're waiving the booking fee indefinitely on tickets where all legs are on the same airline, so their prices should be the same as you'll find on airline sites. Opodo: Opodo (http://www.opodo.co.uk) is owned by nine European airlines and the Amadeus GDS. Its coverage of the European majors is good, but keep in mind that on many European routes you can find something cheaper on a low-cost airline that doesn't participate with Amadeus. (See Fare Searches below to find services link to the airlines that Opodo doesn't.) It's intended for European audiences although anyone can use it, so tickets are priced in pounds or euros. Opodo's user registration is, ah, challenging; no matter what I do, it insists I have entered an unknown user or password or the e-mail address for password recovery doesn't match the user name, even though I copied them from confirmation messages that Opodo just sent. So buy tickets without registering. Apollo systems: Internet Travel Network (http://www.itn.net) is now part of American Express. It's a WWW-based flight booking system. You make reservations, using Apollo, which are then ticketed by American Express, unless you entered via another agency's web site. Several other sites on the net including several airlines have ``private label'' connections to ITN, but it's the same system, usually just with slightly different screen backgrounds and titles. The base ITN system uses data from Apollo, but apparently some of the private label versions use other CRS. Worldspan (http://www.worldspan.com) is another large international CRS. They provide a Web availability and pricing system, which underlies the web sites of participating agents as well as the Delta and Northwest web sites, only available via customer sites, not on their own site. It's the system that underlies Expedia and Orbitz (described above). Galileo's owner Travelport is in the process of buying Worldspan and will presumably merge the two. Cheap Tickets (http://www.cheaptickets.com) originally sold mostly cheap tickets to Hawaii, but is now a general purpose online agent. I gather that unlike most other web sites, the live agents at their 800 number have access to fares not on the web site and often not available through other sites. Owned by Cendant, being spun off in the same travel company as Orbitz, although the sites remain separate. Amadeus: AmadeusLink (http://www.amadeus.net/), was started in 1987 by four European airlines and in 1995 absorbed System One which started a long time ago as Eastern Airlines' reservation system. They offer extensive schedule and availability info, along with rental car, hotel, and destination info. For bookings, you need to use a subscribing travel agency, such as Opodo, or a site built on their AmadeusLink system. The AmadeusLink booking systems all link into the same site, so other than some of the graphics, the function they provide is identical. * Meta-searches A meta-search looks at lots of other sites and gives you a combined result that is supposed to have the lowest fare. All of these work, but in each case it appears that they only search sites that will pay them a commission. The commission doesn't affect your fare, but it does mean that there are other sites that might have lower fares that they don't search. In particular, you'll never find low-price airlines like Southwest and Ryanair. Mobissimo (http://www.mobissimo.com/) is a meta-search that searches lots of other web sites for a pair of cities and dates and shows you what fares it found. Kayak (http://www.kayak.com) and Sidestep are meta-searches, systems that search multiple airline web sites to make a combined listing with links you can click through to the various sites to buy. They work well, but as with all combo sites, there are usually interesting sites they don't search so you still have to look for yourself. They were originally separate competing sites but the companies merged. Pricegrabber (http://www.pricegrabber.com/home_travel.php) offers price comparisons of everything from computer parts to hotels, now including plane tickets. It's pretty slick, but the list of places they search seems limited. Fare compare (http://www.farecompare.com) isn't really a meta-search; it takes fare information directly from the airlines to let you find the cheapest dates on routes of interest. Yapta (http://www.yapta.com) checks airline web sites to see if the fare for trips of interest has dropped since the last time you checked. Much of the functionality is bundled into a very intrusive browser plugin that I haven't tried. * Other general sites OneTravel (http://www.onetravel.com) offers booking and ticketing. They used to have a "fare beater" feature with negotiated and "white label" fares, but it's gone. Too bad. It's a competent but ordinary online agent now. Cheapseats (http://www.cheapseats.com) is another portal into the same system. Travelweb (http://www.travelweb.com), also known as Lowestfare (http://www.lowestfare.com), is a subsidiary of Priceline. It offers the usual array of tickets, with lots of links to Priceline. * Fare searches and comparisons ITA Software (http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch) builds the search engine used by Orbitz and an increasing number of airline sites, and you can use a copy of the latest version of their search system. No booking, you have to take what you find and book elsewhere. It's by far my favorite tool to explore what's available when, keeping in mind that it can't see low fare airlines not in the GDS that provide its data. Qixo (http://www.qixo.com) searches two dozen airline sites and returns a combined list of the lowest fares found for route. If you book through them, there's a $20 booking fee, but of course once you know the airline and times, there's nothing keeping you from booking up the same flights on another site. Yahoo Travel (http://travel.yahoo.com) offers fare calendar searches using Travelocity's engine; you give it two cities and it helps you find the lowest fares and the dates on which they're available. It says US and Canada only, but it will actually do searches anywhere. Cheap Flights USA (http://www.CheapFlights.com) and Cheap Flights UK (http://www.CheapFlights.co.uk) offers a nice search engine for low cost tickets from the US and UK, many of which don't appear in the major search engines. Not a travel agency, they link to other agents and airlines where they presumably collect a referral fee (which is fine, it doesn't affect the price of the ticket.) Foundem (http://www.foundem.com/search/flightsUK.jsp) searches multiple sites in the UK. Supposed to include both regular agent sites and low-fare airlines, but it missed a lot of the low-fare ones when I looked. Sky Scanner (http://www.skyscanner.net) offers an excellent search engine for cheap flights within the UK and Europe. Don't miss their month views with little bar charts of daily fares. Flight Atlas (http://www.flightatlas.com/) offers cute animated maps showing what routes are available among European airports, with links to the airlines serving them. (To me it looks like of like a game of Battleship.) Cheapo (http://www.flycheapo.com) has comprehensive info on European discount airlines including a map that shows where they all go, and frequent blog style news items on new and changed service. * Discounted international tickets AirTreks (http://www.airtreks.com) has a spiffy web site that helps construct and price multi-stop and round-the-world international travel. They're a travel agency, the site estimates the price, exact prices and tickets come from live agents at the agency. (That's what you want, no computer can navigate the swamp of international routes and fares very well.) Farepoint (http://www.farepoint.co.uk/) provides a large database of fares via UK travel agents. The site links to some of the agents who offer their service. Flights.com (http://www.flights.com) (formerly called TISS) is an online database in Germany with current airfares provided by a group of consolidators. They offer departures from a lot of different countries, now including the U.S. They claim the prices they offer are the best available. For routes within the US they act as a front end to flifo. One reader reports a bad experience with their US agent, rebooking his reservation in a way that lost the discount fare he'd reserved, although he'd had good results with their UK agent. Air Fare (http://www.air-fare.com) tracks lowest fares among major U.S. cities, with daily updates of significantly lower fares. Worldspan-based Res and ticketing also available. Deal Checker (http://www.dealchecker.co.uk) compares fares and hotel prices from major UK web sites. * Prognostication Farecast (http://www.farecast.com/) attempts to predict future airfares so you can pick the best time to buy your tickets. Their list of cities, originally only Boston and Seattle, has expanded to a modest list of domestic airports, so if they happen to cover your favorite route, it's an interesting idea. * Checkin snipers Sniping is geek-speak for an automated system that visits a web site on your behalf just in time to meet a deadline. Now that airlines offer on-line checkin, a checkin sniper allows you to register with it ahead of time, so it can check you in the moment the airline allows it, thereby getting the best available seat or upgrade. Checkin Sooner (http://checkinsooner.com/) offers checkin on Southwest, American, Delta, Continental, and United. Limited service is free, extra goodies for $79/yr. Board First offered checkin on Southwest for $5 each, but shut down due to legal objections from Southwest. * Detailed fares and availability Expert Flyer (http://www.expertflyer.com) provides detailed seat and fare availability information, similar to what a travel agent sees. Five day free trial, then limited access for $5/mo, full access for $10/mo. If you fly a lot, it's invaluable for finding which flights have seat upgrades available, which ones have seats at particular fares, and other detailed info for finding the exact flights one wants. * Real-time flight status and information Flightcaster (http://www.flightcaster.com/) uses historical data and secret patent pending algorithms to predict how late your plane will be. Start checking about six hours ahead so you know when to get to the airport. Also available as an iPod app and on Blackberries. Flightstats (http://www.flightstats.com) provides realtime flight departure and arrival information along with related goodies like airport delays, historical lateness stats and more. With free registration, get alerts by email or SMS. Expedia (http://www.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll?qscr=flin) now has real-time flight ops including times and gates for major US airlines. The Track A Flight (http://www.trackaflight.com/) service (formerly Flyte Trax, same organization as flytecomm.com) also provides real-time position map and ETA for most domestic flights, by flight number, or departing or arriving airports. It's as nice as TheTrip. Flight Arrivals (http://www.flightarrivals.com/) offers impressively complete arrival info for most US airports. (It even has info for the teensy Ithaca NY airport.) No maps, but lots of data. * Itinerary Lookup Each of the GDS has a web site where you can look up the details of the record for a reservation if you have the locator code, generally a sequence of six letters or digits, and the passenger's last name. A single trip can have information on more than one system. For example, if you make a United Airlines reservation on Travelocity, the main Travelocity record is on Sabre, but there's a copy on United's home system Galileo, as well. Each system has a different locator code, and it can be hard to find the codes for other than the original system. Virtually There sometimes shows the locator for other system records as the Confirmation field, although you have to figure out or guess which system it's on. Every travel agent except Orbitz uses one of the GDS to make its reservations so the master record for each trip is available through one of the systems. The online systems usually show the locator code on one of the confirmation screens, and any airline or local travel agent will tell your the locator for your reservation if you ask. Since Orbitz uses its direct connect technology to make reservations directly with many airlines, the master record is on Orbitz itself and as far as I can tell you can't tell the airline's locator until you get your boarding pass. Virtually There (https://www.virtuallythere.com) can show records from Sabre inclding reservations on Travelocity, American Airlines, and US Airways. Check My Trip (https://www.checkmytrip.com) can show records from Amadeus, including reservations on Continental and many European airlines. My Trip and More (http://www.mytripandmore.com/) can show records from Worldspan, including reservations on Delta and Northwest. View Trip (https://www.viewtrip.com/en-us/ViewTrip.asp) can show records from Galileo, including reservations on United. Some of these systems will also show rental car and hotel info if they're included in the same records. Airlines often offer special fares or promotions to Internet users, and there are some other specialist outfits selling tickets on-line. * Special fare newsletters and sites Smarter Travel (http://www.smartertravel.com/) collects weekly specials from selected major cities and both puts them on their web site and e-mails them to mailing lists. You can sign up for the cities you're interested in flying from, as well as general newsletters about travel deals. Also see their companion site Airfare Watchdog (http://www.airfarewatchdog.com) which has a fine compendium of low fares by city, with useful suggestions for nearby cities that might have lower fares. Travelzoo (http://www.travelzoo.com/) offers a gazillion different services including a weekly Top 20 Deals newsletter and a meta-meta-search in which you tell it the cities and dates, and they offer links to sites you might want to search. (Selection surely not affected by how much commission they pay.) The Wednesday Airfares webring (http://www.bomis.com/rings/airline) has links to many sites with. on-line specials, although they should really update it to take out the link to TWA. Travelocity has a Travel Deals page that often has private fares, two-for-one deals, and the like. Click Flights on the home page, then Deals on the blue bar. * Ticket auctions and the like Priceline (http://www.priceline.com) sells tickets over the web using a peculiar system sort of like an auction. You tell them where and when you want to go and how much you're willing to pay. You have to be prepared to go at any time of day, on any major domestic airline or one of a list of international ones, and to accept a stop or change of plane. You tell them what you're willing to pay, along with credit card info. If they find a ticket at that price, you've bought it and can't change or refund it (like most any low-price ticket.) Flights must originate in the U.S., or via an affiliate, in the U.K. If they have a ticket available at or below your bid, they'll sell it to you, but you don't know if you're getting the best price. They'll charge what you offered even if the carrier would have accepted less, and they make it difficult to offer increasing bids. They now offer seats on many the major US airlines and international airlines. except A lot of reports, including articles in the Consumer Reports Travel Letter, and the Wall Street Journal, say that in practice bids for lower than published prices are rarely accepted, and they admit that they accept less than 10% of the bids people make, although they do sell 15,000 tickets a day. They now also offer normal tickets where you know the price and the flights ahead of time. I don't see any reason to buy from them rather than anyone else, but this does at least tell you what the list price is so you don't bid any higher than that. I haven't ever bought a ticket through Priceline, but would welcome more reports from people who have. (I tried to get a NYC hotel room one time, they turned down all my offers, but I've heard from at least one person who got a room at a nice Boston hotel for about half the normal price.) The idea of auctioning left-over tickets is a good one, and it's a shame if it can't be put into practice. If you're planning to travel on a route well-served by one of the airlines listed above, and can fly at any time of day, try bidding slightly less than the best fare you can find on one of the regular reservation sites or Hotwire and see if they take it. Otherwise, you're better off with a agent who knows about unpublished fares, many of whom are listed in subsequent sections of this FAQ. Hotwire (http://www.hotwire.com) is a sort of competitor to Priceline now owned by InterActive Corp which owns Expedia and Hotels.com. You tell them where you want to go, what dates, and a few conditions such as no red-eye, and they offer you a price. Unlike Priceline they tell you what price you'll pay and have an hour to decide before you buy it. Like Priceline, you don't get to know the times and airline until you buy the tickets. Hotwire is another good place to check for last minute tickets. It hasn't yet ever offered me a ticket I wanted to buy, but considering that I fly from Ithaca NY, not exactly a hotbed of airline competition, I can't say I'm surprised. Flights must originate in the U.S., but you can fly internationally. They also sell hotels and rental cars on the same basis; I've gotten some good rental car deals all of which have turned out to be from Budget. SkyAuction (http://www.skyauction.com/), in contrast to Priceline and Hotwire, auctions off tickets and travel packages using a "second bid" scheme similar to what eBay and other online auctioneers use. (The best strategy is to bid the maximum you're willing to pay, since if you win you'll pay just enough to beat the runner up regardless of what your maximum was.) The descriptions of what they're selling are quite concrete, and you can see what the competing bids are. Tickets are offered in small lots, you can end up with fewer tickets than you asked for unless you make a bid "all or nothing". Be sure to add in the often large service charge for each ticket, and be sure you know what normal fares are since tickets are often bid up above published fares. I've bought tickets to London through them, their service was prompt and efficient, but I've seen reports that it is very difficult to get a refund if there's a problem with the flights. General auction sites often have airline tickets available. You can find them in "Miscellaneous:Travel" at eBay (http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/category1310/index.html). Many of the tickets offered appear either to be frequent flyer tickets, which the airline will confiscate if they can tell that you bought them, or dubious deals where the air tickets are "free" if you buy an expensive vacation package. There do seem to be a few transferrable bump certificates, and quite a few ancillary items like drink coupons. Site 59 (http://www.site59.com/) offers last minute weekend travel packages. They all include air and hotel, but the price is often lower than what you'd otherwise pay for air only (Travelocity's "last minute deals" are really Site59.) * Individual airlines Air Canada (http://www.aircanada.ca/schedules/) has weekly Websaver special fares. Airtran (http://www.airtran.com) has weekend specials. Double frequent flyer credit for specials purchased on-line. (Actually worth something, since six round trips earn a free ticket.) Also an e-mail newsletter you can sign up for on the site that announces weekly specials. Alaska Airlines (http://www.alaskaair.com/Webspecials/start.asp) has web special fares. American Airlines has weekly mailing lists for ``Net SAAver fares'', otherwise unadvertised specials from Chicago or Dallas, as well as some hotel packages. Visit their web page (http://www.aa.com) and click on specials on the toolbar at the top. American Trans Air (http://www.ata.com) has ``net fares'', special fares available only on their web site. America West (http://www.americawest.com) has Surf'n'Go weekly specials and Quick Trips air/land package specials. Austrian Airlines (http://www.aua.com) has weekly lists of specials, with occasional web-only last minute specials. Cathay Pacific Airlines (www.cathay-usa.com/dotm) has regular web specials. The currently offer $200 off their all-Asia pass, 21 days with round trip to Hong Kong and 18 other places they fly for $1299. You have to register in their free ``Cybertraveller'' at the web site. If you like knick-knacks they have a 60th anniversary stuffed bear in the online duty-free for about US$20 plus (quite a lot of) shipping. Continental (http://www.coticket.com/) has a mailing list and web site for net-only specials. You buy tickets on-line, but you have to subscribe to the mailing list to get access. (Site requires cookies.) Finnair (http://www.us.finnair.com/) has occasional seat auctions. Lufthansa's US site (http://www.lufthansa-usa.com/) has occasional Web specials and live seat auctions. Sign up for mailing list to find out when they are. Malaysia Airlines (http://www.malaysiaairlines.com) offers RT from the USA west coast to Kuala Lumpur and 30 days of travel within Asia for $747 plus tax, a very attractive deal. (East coast residents should look at the similar Cathay Pacific offer.) Northwest (http://www.nwa.com/nwa/flight/promos/index.shtml) has promotions including a few web-only fares which they put on their site on Wednesdays. South African Airways (http://www.saa.co.za/saa has) occasional seat auctions. Southwest (http://www.iflyswa.com/email has a mailing list) with weekly specials. Also there's a package specials list (http://www.swavacations.com/guest/guest.htm) with special deals if you sign their guest book and answer a bunch of nosy questions. Sun Country (http://www.suncountry.com/) has weekly on-line ``Cy-Fly'' specials. United (http://www.ual.com) has E-Fares specials for members of their Milage Plus program posted every Wednesday, also by e-mail. (Signup info on their web site.) Choose E-Fares from the menu on the home page. You have to sign in but it's free. US Airways (http://www.usair.com/travel/fares/esavers.htm) has an "e-savers" mailing list with weekly special fares from (and occasionally to) their hub cities. Web site also has Internet-only special fares to and from Baltimore and Washington, with extra frequent flyer miles. * What about the airlines' own web sites?? Many airlines are on the World Wide Web. Five good directories of them are: http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Travel_and_Transportation/Airlines/ http://www.airlineguide.info http://smilinjack.com/airlines.htm http://flyaow.com/ This list contains only airlines sites that have schedule or booking information available; see the pages mentioned above for lots of other airline web pages with other info. In the discussions below, flight ops means flight operations, that is, delays, gates, cancellations, and the like. Ticketless ticketing means that rather than issuing a real ticket, the airline sends you a receipt with a ticket number. You cite that number and show ID when you check in. They send the receipt via e-mail, fax, or (if there's time) snail mail. You pay with a credit card. This list is for airlines in the United States, Mexico and Caribbean airlines. The next section lists Canadian airlines, the section after that airlines elsewhere in the world. Air Aruba (http://www.interknowledge.com/air-aruba/) has a rather dusty page with limited route and contact info, on which the most useful item is that they don't fly any more. Airtran (http://www.airtran.com), a low-fare airline in the eastern U.S., has schedules, reservations, ticketless ticketing, special offers, and an e-mail specials newsletter. Alaska Airlines (http://www.alaska-air.com) has a web site with flight info, reservations, ticketless ticketing, and special offers. Get 500 bonus miles just for signing up for the weekly newsletter. The reservation system finally seems to be working reliably, new design is pretty, fare grid is quite usable but not as cute as the old retro design. Downloadable PDF schedule, too. Allegiant Air (https://www.allegiantair.com) is a low-fare carrier that flies MD80s from cities around the country to Las Vegas and vacation destinations in Florida, as well as Gulfport MI and Phoenix. Reservations, lots of packages, free tee-shirts with most packages. Assigned seats cost $10 extra. Elvis glasses available for purchase on many flights. Unlike pretty much every other airline in the country, they're profitable so book with confidence. ALM (http://www.airalm.com/) flies to and from the Netherlands Antilles. Routes, schedules, destination info, and occasional specials. Aloha (http://www.alohaairlines.com/) ended its passenger service as of the end of March. With luck, passengers will be reticketed on United or Hawaiian. America West (http://www.americawest.com) has schedule info, reservations, and ticketless ticketing in a site that is quite attractive now that the images hold still. Weekly web specials for both air and air/land packages. They've merged with US Airways, but for now the two airlines are operating sort of separately. American Airlines (http://www.aa.com/) has a newly redesigned very blue web site with schedules, fares, and flight ops. Reservations and ticketing available, using the Orbitz booking and search engine. (So much for the company that built Sabre in the first place, 40 years ago.) They also offer timetables (http://www.aatimetable.com) in various online and printable formats. American Trans Air (http://www.ata.com) shut down unexpectedly on April 2. They're bankrupt, no reaccomodation, no refunds other than via credit cards, no nothing. Amtrak (http://www.amtrak.com) isn't an airline, but they're competitive on many routes in urban parts of the U.S., and have scenic long distance routes. Schedule info and reservations available, although the reservation system can be awfully slow. BWIA (http://www.bwee.com/) used to fly to, from, and around the Caribbean. They shut down but have been somewhat reincarnated as Caribbean Airlines. Chalk's Ocean Airways (http://www.flychalks.com/) flew seaplanes between Florida and the Bahamas since 1919, making it the world's oldest operating airline, with only one accident, when a plane fell apart in the air on Dec 19th, 2005. Site is still there, but the airline was shut down in late 2007 and shows no sign of coming back. Too bad. Click Mexicana (http://www.click.com.mx/) is a low-fare subsidiary of Mexicana flying elderly F-100 jets on domestic Mexican routes. But with 35" seat pitch and, beer and tequila on flights over an hour, what's not to like? Six months interest free on your tickets on most Mexican credit cards. Continental (http://www.continental.com) has a spiffy new design with schedule info, on-line booking, and flight status. CO.O.L. system offers a general purpose reservation system with hotels and cars as well as flights, with the same features as Microsoft's Expedia. Currently offering up to 1000 extra FF miles for tickets bought on-line. Weekly specials via mailing list or web site. (CO.O.L. requires cookies.) Cubana (http://www.cubana.cu/) flies from Havana to points in Europe and the Americas. Schedules, destinations, and fleet info. I wonder where they get the spare parts for their DC-10 and 727. Delta (http://www.delta.com) has fares, schedules, on-line ticketing, and flight ops. Currently offering up to 1000 extra FF miles for tickets bought on-line. They own Northwest, but it's still operating separately. Eos (http://www.eosairlines.com) flew all-business 757s between New York JFK and London Stansted for fares starting around $1000 each way. They shut down in late April. The current incarnation of Frontier (http://www.frontierairlines.com/) is a low-fare line with a hub at Denver flying to points in the US and Mexico. They're bankrupt but still flying, with a plan to emerge as part of regional carrier Republic. Site has reservations, flight ops. Go! (http://www.iflygo.com) is a subsidary of commuter carrier Mesa Air that flies small jets among the Hawaiian islands with fares as low as $35, thereby setting off a huge inter-island fare war. Site also available in Hawaiian (http://www.lelegowau.com) to demonstrate their street cred. They're bankrupt but still flying. Hawaiian (http://www.hawaiianair.com/) flies within Hawaii, to the South Pacific, and to the U.S. west coast. Bankrupt but still operating. Independence Air (http://www.flyi.com/) is the new name for Atlantic Coast Airlines, ran out of money and stopped operating as of Jan 5. Interjet (http://www.interjet.com.mx/) is a new Mexican low-fare airline with a hub at Toluca. Site has flights and hotel packages. It's all in Spanish except for the Hacker Safe logo at the bottom of the pages. Jet Blue (http://www.jetblue.com), an airline that may yet bring sane airfares to upstate New York, has an elegant web site with routes, fares, and on-line ticket sales, Don't miss the rotating 3-D Airbus A320, even though it does make Internet Exploder crash. LIAT (http://www.liatairline.com), who island-hop in the Caribbean, has a web site with reservations and frequent flyer info, except no matter what airports and dates I put into their res form, it says there's no flights on those dates. Maxjet (http://www.maxjet.net) was another entry in the premium low-cost niche, offering one daily all business class 767s roundtrip between New York JFK, Dulles, and Las Vegas to London Stansted. They're bankrupt, and seem unlikely to resume flying. They bought tickets on Eos for their remaining passengers. Mexicana (http://www.mexican.com/) has reservations, packages, frequent flyer program, and a lot of buggy Javascript. News reports say they may yet merge with Aeromexico. Midwest Airlines (http://www.midwestairlines.com/), formerly Midwest Express, has routes, schedules, and fares. Also seat maps and a surprising number of missing pages, like the one that's supoosed to tell you what other airlines are in their frequent flyer program. On the ``signature'' flights, the ones that don't go to vacation places, the chocolate chip cookies are still free. They recently sold themselves to private equity group TPG and Northwest, to avoid a hostile bid from Airtran. New England Airlines (http://www.ids.net/flybi/nea/) flies between Block Island RI and Westerly RI. Schedule and fare info, reservations via an e-mail form. Northwest Airlines (http://www.nwa.com) has schedule, fares, reservations, and flight ops, using the Orbitz booking and search engine. Weekly Cybersaver specials offered, book through the web site for the lowest price. On-line store offers a $12.99 plush moose and a $279 1/100 scale 747-400. That's only $10/inch! They're now part of Delta but for now are still operating mostly separately. Pan Am (http://www.flypanam.com), the airline that just won't believe that it's dead, flies small commuter planes among obscure cities in the northestern US like Elmira and Trenton, and one route to Sanford FL. It's owned by the parent company of the Boston and Maine railroad and has no connection to the old Pan Am other than buying the logo. Online schedules, reservations, and destination info. Skybus Airlines was a low cost carrier with teaser $10 fares. But they're dead now. Song (http://www.flysong.com) was Delta's low-cost airline within an airline. Their web site was all fluffy and beautiful and offered the same stuff as everyone else, schedules, reservations, flight ops, and online checkin. Now it's just part of Delta. Southwest Airlines (http://www.iflyswa.com) has schedules and fares, and now reservations and ticketless ticketing. The graphics are still too big, but the site loads faster than it used to. Mailing list for weekly specials. Spirit (http://www.spiritair.com) is a low-cost airline that flies between Florida and the northeast and midwest, and also from Detroit and Chicago to California. Has schedules, reservations, and weekly "syber" specials. You can change the name on any ticket for $25. Wow! Sun Country (http://www.suncountry.com/), a regional airline headquartered in Minneapolis, is once again running scheduled service on new 737s from MSP to places all over the US and nearby warm-weather vacation spots. Their parent company is bankrupt, with charges of financial fraud, so I wouldn't plan any trips that it would be a big problem to change. Ted (http://www.flyted.com) is United's low-cost airline within an airline. Their previous attempt, Shuttle by United, failed dismally, but what the heck, maybe the laws of economics are different this year. The web site is United's with minor cosmetic changes. Either the United version or the Ted version shows you the same flights and fares. Join the Ted Club which appears to be Milage Plus and a mailing list with special deals. Transmeridian (http://www.tmair.com) ran out of money and liquidated. Ah, well. TWA has been absorbed into American (http://www.aa.com). Where's Howard Hughes now that we need him? United (http://www.united.com) has resdesigned their site so at last it is reasonably functional. Reservations and booking via ITN. When you do online check-in, they will try to upsell you to first class (not worth it), and economy plus (worth it for long trips.) Sometimes they goof and give you first class when you've only paid for E+. US Airways (http://www.usair.com) has schedules and reservations via a site that looks to have the same underlying engine as Travelocity. Booking is nice when it works, but half the time I get an error message rather than a ticket. (Deleting all your cookies often helps.) 1000 frequent flyer miles for tix bought online. Also weekly weekend travel specials from (and occasionally to) USAair hub cities. They've merged with America West, but for now the two airlines are operating somewhat separately. US Helicopter (http://www.flyush.com/) flies spiffy blue helicopters from Wall Street to JFK and back every hour, with a daily side trip to Bridgeport for suburbanites. If you're connecting at JFK to American, it saves a lot of time (which for $165 for a 10 minute flight, it better.) If you're on any other airline, it doesn't. Flash-heavy site has reservations and the usual stuff. Charters available, if sharing a helicopter with 7 other people is just too common. USA 3000 (http://www.usa3000airlines.com/) flies a sparse schedule of A320s between the northeastern US, and Florida and the Caribbean with pretty low fares. Onboard services include food, movies, and "first flight" certificates for small children. (Nice, but not as cool as the Jr Pilot wings TWA gave me in about 1959.) Schedules, reservations, flight ops. The site uses a lot of Javascript but it all seems to work. Virgin America (http://www.virginamerica.com/) plans to start up in August flying among San Francisco, LAX, New York, Washington, Las Vegas. Spiffy Web site (what else would you expect from Virgin?) has tickets, flight info, online checkin, frequent flyer program, and a lot of Flash videos that don't work in my ancient 2006 vintage Flash 7 player. Flights are fairly cheap, e.g. $200 one-way transcon, everything costs extra starting with an exit row seat at $25. Until December 21, enter promo code ELEVATE25 for 25% off any flight through March. Warning: Acceptable use policy for the in-flight entertainment system specifically forbids sending spam. * Airlines in Canada Air Canada (http://www.aircanada.ca/schedules/) has schedule info, reservations, ticketing, online checkin, seat maps, airport info (including a two-page downloadable PDF explaining the immensely complex new Toronto connection options) and weekly Websaver special fares. Aussi disponible en francais (http://www.aircanada.ca/francais/horaires/). Site uses a lot of Javascript which usually works except when you're in a hurry. Air St Pierre (http://www.airsaintpierre.com/) flies from St Pierre (which, for those who slept through geography class, is a French island near Newfoundland) to nearby points. Schedule and fares, in French, now some info in English. Air Transat (http://www.airtransat.com) is a Canadian scheduled charter line that flies to the US, the Caribbean, and Europe. Well-organized web site has schedules, reservations, and flight ops. Bearskin Airlines (http://www.bearskinairlines.com/) flies small planes around northern Ontario and Manitoba with hubs in bustling Thunder Bay and Sioux Lookout. Sounds like fun. Info and reservations via a private label version of Amadeus. The logo sweatshirts are attractive but seem a little pricey at C$49.95. Kenn Borek Air (http://www.borekair.com) offers scheduled service around the Canadian arctic and charter service in the area between the North and South poles. Canadian Airlines has been absorbed into Air Canada, familiarly known as Mapleflot. Canjet (http://www.canjet.com) shut down its scheduled service as of September 10th. Before that, they offered low fare flights on 737s in Canada with a few routes to New York and Florida. They may still run vacation charters to the Caribbean. Firstair (http://www.firstair.ca/) flies around the Canadian arctic with connections to the south, Site has has schedule, reservations, travel info, and stuff you don't worry about farther south like which planes can land on ice. (But you can no longer get from North America to Greenland without flying through Iceland.) Harmony Airways (http://www.harmonyairways.com/) flew from Canada to vacation places, but their scheduled service stopped on April 9. Jetsgo (http://www.jetsgo.com) was a low-cost Canadian carrier that was eating Air Canada's lunch until they suddently stopped operating in March 2006. Porter Airlines (http://www.flyporter.com/) flies small planes with leather seats and free beer between Ottawa and the downtown Toronto Island airport. (Finally!) Stylish site tells you how elegant and state of the art they are, and also sells tickets and the usual stuff. Via Rail Canada (http://www.viarail.ca) isn't an airline but is competitive in the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto corridor. Schedule and fare info, on-line reservations. Aussi disponible en francais. (Was developed in French and translated into English, I know the guy who did it.) Westjet (http://www.westjet.com) is a relatively low-fare Canadian airline, currently the only remaining significant competitor to Air Canada. Schedules, reservations, flight ops. Weekly web specials can occasionally be pretty cheap. Zoom Airlines (http://www.flyzoom.com/) used to fly their three planes on a sparse schedule between Canada and Britain and France, but shut down in late August. * Airlines in Europe Aegean Air (http://www.aegeanair.com/aegeanen/home/index.asp) is a new full service with moderate fares, airline flying around Greece and elsewhere in Europe with nice new RJ-100s and tired old 737s. They're an attractive alternative to Olympic. Aer Lingus (http://www.aerlingus.com/) has on-line booking with a useful fare calendar (click the Lowest Fares Availability link below the reservation box) that shows when cheap fares are available. Use up those frequent flyer points now, they've left the Oneworld alliance. African Safari Airways (http://www.africansafariclub.com/html/flights.php) has been in operation since 1967 and fly from UK, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy and Austria to Kenya. Flights and tour packages. Air Berlin (http://www.airberlin.com) flies from about twenty hubs in Germany to holiday spots all over Europe and North Africa and to London. The very thorough web site has schedules, reservations, specials, and lots of other info, including the fact that the airline was originally headquartered in Oregon, USA. Air Europa (http://www.air-europa.com), a low-cost airline based in Spain, has routes and schedules in an intriguing mix of English and Spanish. Air France (http://www.airfrance.us) has an elegant and stylish site (would you expect any less?) with the usual info, reservations, and frequent flyer services. Weekly email newsletter has occasional deals to Europe and the mid-East, also occasional biz class tickets for prices not much over full coach. Alitalia (http://www.alitalia.it) is the Italian flag carrier with a web site in, not surprisingly, Italian. USA site (http://www.alitaliausa.com) has info and reservations via a lightly customized version of ITN/Getthere. They also have online specials, some of which are pretty good. The Italian government is trying to sell off Alitalia which will probably cause strikes, since there is no way they can compete with other European airlines without cutting their huge labor costs. Aer Arann (http://www.aerarann.ie) flies ATR turboprops within Ireland and to Scotland, England and the Isle of Man. Air Scotland seems to have disappeared without a trace. Austrian Airlines (http://www.aua.com) offers schedule and availability info, and a downloadable Excel spreadsheet schedule. Also special offers in a sometimes inscrutable mix of German and English. L'Avion (http://www.lavion.com/us/) flew between Newark and Paris, but is now part of BA's Openskies (http://www.flyopenskies.com). British Airways (http://www.british-airways.com/) has schedules and reservations on an improved site with ticket-by-mail. Also flight ops, and, depending on what part of the site you believe, there may be some special offers for some flights departing from some countries, sometime. bmi (http://www.flybmi.com/) (formerly British Midland) has a very blue web site with the usual stuff. Join their diamond club frequent flyer program if you plan to book, even if you use a different FF number, since that makes it easier to trace reservations. They've been sold to Lufthansa, but in the short term that's not likely to make much difference since they already codeshare and have somewhat coordinated schedules. bmibaby (http://www.bmibaby.com/) is a low-fare subsidiary of bmi, with flights from regional airports in England and Wales to business and vacation destinations in Ireland and Europe. Before you book, check that there isn't a cheaper fare from a nearby airport on bmi (above.) SN Brussels Airlines (http://www.flysn.com) is trying very hard to persuade us that they're not Sabena. (They arose from the ashes of the Sabena bankruptcy and seem to have the same cheerfully inept attitude.) They fly around Europe and to a few places in Africa, but not to North America. Flights to the US on their web site are in fact code-shares on American. Cityjet (http://www.cityjet.com/) flies small jets from London City airport to Ireland, Scotland, and France. It's headquartered in Dublin but is owned by Air France. Site has the usual stuff, includes flights from VLM which is now under the same ownership. Crossair (http://www.crossair.ch/), has morphed into the new Swiss (http://www.swiss.com) Swiss airline that's filling the hole left by Swissair's demise. Easyjet (http://www.easyjet.com) is a low fare airline with a hub at London Luton. Site offers routes, reservations, and other info, with garish but easy to read orange and blue graphics. Don't miss the stuffed pilot bear with goggles and faux leather jacket, for only L 5.95. They acquired and absorbed Go, formerly the low fare branch of British Airways. Eastern Airways (http://www.easternairways.com) flies small planes to cities around the UK with fares ranging from cheap to rather high. Routes, schedules, fares, reservations. Baggage rules say "On board use of the ghetto-blaster type or radio or tape player is an irritant to other passengers and is forbidden." Finnair (http://www.us.finnair.com/) has schedule info and occasional have seat auctions. They have a reservation system hosted by Amadeus, but for some reason they only let you buy expensive business class tickets through it. Travellers in Finland can apparently access the web site through their cell phones, which is kind of cool. flybe (http://www.flybe.com) is a low-fare airline with hubs at Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Birmingham, flying mostly within the UK and from the UK to Europe. Schedules and reservations. It used to be called British European, but that name evidently wasn't contrived enough. GermanWings (http://www.germanwings.com) is a cost airline flying from its base at Cologne/Bonn and Stuttgart all over Europe. E-Specials (see tab near top of home page) include ticket sales and hotel discounts. Globespan (http://www.flyglobespan.com) flew between Scottish airports and mostly Mediterranean destinations, but went bust in December 2009. Hapag-Lloyd Express (http://www.hlx.com/en/) is a cost airline, flyingfrom Cologne/Bonn and Hannover to airports in Spain, Italy, England and Germany. Schedules, reservations, destination info. Hellas Jet (http://www.hellas-jet.com/) flies from Greece to major cities Europe. It's a subsidiary of Cyprus Airways. Online booking via a private-label version of ITN, frequent flyer program, Iberia (http://www.iberia.es/) has schedules and fares in Spanish, English, Danish, Swedish, Japanese, and Russian. Reservations through a private label Amadeus site. Iceland Express (http://www.icelandexpress.com) is an Icelandic low cost airline linking Reykjavik with London and Copenhagen. Nice icebergs on the web site, and you can change the name on a ticket for only L 20. Icelandair (http://www.icelandair.com) flies between the US and Europe, via their hub in Iceland. Reservations, flight info, specials. Lucky Fares mailing list offers trans-Atlantic specials most weeks, occasionally at amazing prices. Jet2 (http://www.jet2.com) fliees from Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, and Belfast in the UK to Spanish and French holiday spots, Amsterdam, Prague and Milan. Schedules, reservations, links to places to buy holiday cottages. KLM (http://www.klm.com) has a gateway site to national sites all over the world, most of which offer schedules and some offer reservations. The US and Canada sites are actually Northwest's. They're owned by Air France, but the web sites don't seem to have noticed yet. Lufthansa Info Flyway (http://www.lufthansa.com) offers schedule info (for most airlines, not just LH) and also reservations. Also has a US site (http://www.lufthansa-usa.com/) with info tailored to US customers, including occasional Web Specials live seat auctions. Luxair (http://www.luxair.lu) flies from Luxembourg to the places that Luxemburgers (or is it the Luxembourgeois) want to go, business and vacation destinations around Europe. Schedules, reservations, destination info including the daily menu specials at the airport restaurant. Malev (http://www.malev.hu) Hungarian airlines has an attractive site with schedule info. There's supposed to be fare info but it pops up a box saying it's out of order. Manx Airlines (http://www.manx-airlines.com) has schedule info. Mytravellite (http://www.mytravellite.com/) is a low cost airline flying from Birmingham (UK) to Ireland and Spain. Schedules, reservations, destination info. Small discount offered for online booking. Norwegian Airlines (http://www.norwegian.no) is a low cost airline flying from Oslo to Norway and elsewhere in Europe. Site has reservations and info mostly translated from the Norwegian. Olympic (http://www.olympicairlines.com/), the flag carrier of Greece, has a basic site with online booking. Openskies (https://www.flyopenskies.com/) is a new subsidiary of British Airways that currently flies between Paris and Amsterdam and New York, and plans to add flights from other European cities. (It's named after the treaty that lets them do that.) Spiffy site has the usual stuff; their premium economy gets rave reviews, close to biz class at much lower fares. Ryanair (http://www.ryanair.ie) is a rapidly expanding low-fare airline with a hub at London Stansted and minor hubs in London Luton, Dublin, Shannon, Glasgow, Brussels, Stockholm Skavsta, Frankfurt Hahn, and Milan Orio Al Serio. Web site offers routes, fares, and booking. Fares start at one cent but rarely stop there. Even with all the nuisance charges they're often quite cheap, and once you battle your way onto the plane, they generally run on time and rarely lose the bag you've paid them to check. SAS (http://www.sas.se) has schedule info on-line, and in large downloadable text file. Windows interface program (2MB download) lets you search through the schedule file, but it's far faster to search with a text editor. Also limited reservations for pass holders and frequent flyer redemptions. Silverjet (http://www.flysilverjet.com) used to fly all-business 767s between uncrowded albeit somewhat remote London Luton and Newark for about $1000 each way, but like its all-business competitors Eos and Maxjet ran out of cash and shut down. Swiss (http://www.swiss.com), the successor to Crossair, has schedule info and on-line booking on a somewhat sloppy site, and some web specials. (Click Special Offers on the home page.) They're about to be taken over by Lufthansa, but it's not clear whether it'll continue to operate as a separate airline. Swissair went bankrupt in September 2001 and their schedules have somewhat been taken over by Swiss airlines. Thomsonfly (http://flights.thomson.co.uk/en/index.html) is a low fare airline based in the UK offering flights to vacation destinations in central and southern Europe, north Africa, and the Americas. Site offers flights and package vacations. Transavia (http://www.transavia.nl/en) is a subsidiary of KLM flying from Amsterdam to holiday destinations in Europe and north Africa. Info and online reservations. Their former low-cost subsidiary Basiqair is now merged into Transavia. Virgin Atlantic (http://www.fly.virgin.com/) has a spiffy looking site with reservations, fares, and ticketing. Also tours and occasional specials. VLM (http://www.vlm-airlines.com/) is a low-cost airline flying small planes mostly between the UK and Benelux. (The V stands for Flemish.) Schedules, reservations, company history. It's more or less the same airline as Citijet now, owned by Air France/KLM. XL Airways (http://www.xl.com) flies from France and Germany to vacation destinations in southern Europe and north Africa, primarily package vacations. Dense, functional has all the stuff they offer. Their former parent, Excel Airways in the UK, is bankrupt, but spun off the continental parts which are still in business. For now, at least. * Airlines elsewhere in the world Air Asia (http://www.airasia.com/) is a startup headquartered in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) offering low-fare single-class point to point service along the lines of JetBlue or Ryanair. They have some amazing intro fares, like round trip from Kuala Lumpur to Johor, across the bridge from Singamore, for RM78, about US$20. Online reservations, info, and a nice three page menu of onboard food offerings. I think I'll try the Asian egg salad sandwich. In September 2007, a new affiliate called (for the moment) AirAsia X (http://www.airasia.com/site/en/page.jsp?reference=aax_pr1) will start low-fare long haul service between Malaysia and points as far away as Europe. Air India (http://home.airindia.in/) has a home page chock full of dancing, blinking flash animations that looks like an Asian bazaar (which, I suppose, it is.) Site is oddly organized but has the usual stuff, online ticketing, ops, destination info, and so forth. To buy tickets you have to register as a YATRIK (Your Airline Travel Reservation Internet Kit.) It's different in India. Air New Zealand (http://www.airnz.co.nz) offers schedules and booking via a private-label version of ITN/Getthere, which one time assured me that you can't fly from Auckland to New York. It's better now, although it doesn't seem to find the best fares. Also special fares and frequent flyer info. Once you're on the plane, though, the service is great, particularly those flat bed business class seats. ANA (http://www.ana.co.jp/eng/int/) is Japan's #2 airline, flying both domestic and international routes. Site is not fancy but very functional with much better fare info than most airlines offer. Once you buy a ticket, don't miss the cute animated seat selector. Ansett Australia (http://www.ansett.com.au) stopped flying in March 2002. But the web site has lots of tedious details of the financial dissection of the carcass. Aerolineas Argentinas (http://www.aerolineas.com.ar) has schedules and reservations (for Argentine residents) through a private label version of Amadeus. In Spanish and English. I think it's flying this week, labor has been battling owner Iberia. Cathay Pacific (http://www.cathay-usa.com), Hong Kong's airline, offers booking through ITN and a variety of special offers such as bonus AA frequent flyer miles or package deals to Asia. El Al (http://www.elal.co.il) has U.S. schedules and some US-oriented package info. Appears to have on-line booking although I couldn't get it to work. Emirates (http://www.emirates.com), the airline of Dubai, has an attractive site with info about schedules, packages and special offers, and requent flyer info. The on-line booking makes it easy to search by schedule, even among multiple days, somewhat possible to search by fare, and due to Javascript bugs I can't tell whether it actually sells tickets. Gol (http://www.voegol.com.br) is a low-fare airline flying in Brazil and a few adjacent countries. Routes, fares, e-tickets, ground connections. Nice flash animation of flying pigs on the home page. Lan Chile (http://www.lanchile.cl) has an attractive multi-lingual site with schedules, fares, and some cheap Internet-only specials. Malaysia Airlines (http://www.malaysiaairlines.com) has route and schedule information, with frequent special deals, but if you want to buy a ticket, you have to call them. Pacific Blue (http://www.flypacificblue.com/) is a new bit of the Virgin empire that flying from New Zealand to Australia and other South Pacific points and, later this year, domestically in New Zealand. The web site is basically the same as its ozzie parent Virgin Blue, with some really cheap introductory fares on their new routes. Polynesian Airlines (http://www.polynesianairlines.co.nz/) has basic routes and schedules. Qantas (http://www.qantas.com.au) has an attractive site with online booking, schedule info and flight ops and a downloadable off-line Windows itinerary manager. Bookings are oriented toward but not limited to Australian residents. Royal Air Maroc (http://www.royalairmaroc.com/) has an attractive site with a fragile connection to Amadeus that will occasionally sell you a ticket. Site has a grab bag of other goodies such as detailed information on many airports they fly to (but none of the ones in Morocco), and the results of the 4th World Executive Challenge golf tournament. Royal Jordanian (http://www.rja.com.jo) has a stylish but slow web site with routes and schedules to and from their Amman hub. Singapore Airlines (http://www.singaporeair.com) has schedule info, reservations, frequent flyer, and info on their new A380s. It's best viewed via a server that will filter out anything that's unwholesome. South African Airways (http://www.saa.co.za/saa) has schedules and a little destination info, but they've toned down the eye-straining graphics. Occasional seat auctions. Varig (http://www.varig.com.br), is now a subsidiary of low cost carrier Gol, the old Varig having run out of money and died a while ago. Web site entirely in Portugese has schedule info and reservations. Virgin Blue (http://www.virginblue.com.au) is a low-fare domestic airline in Australia with its hub in sunny Brisbane. Schedules and on-line booking. Lunch costs extra. * Are there many on-line agents? There's lots of them, grouped below by location of the agent and type of service. NOTE: All of the descriptions below are edited from info provided by the agencies themselves. There are many resources other than travel agents available on the net, as well, but they're not listed here. Most agencies offer a broad range of services, so the groupings by type of service below are pretty arbitrary. NOTE: If you're a travel agent and would like to be listed, drop me a note and I'll add you. Please make my life easier by e-mailing me a three-line or so description in the style above. Thanks. * Generalist agents located in the U.S. Alexys (http:www.alexys.us) offers air tickets and tours. They have online booking /online search for international and domestic flights within USA. India a specialty. VGO World Inc. <vgoworld@att.net> is a full service travel agency offering low fares to international and domestic destinations backed with professional and courteous service. Competitive prices to complicated international trips that online sites cannot figure. Montrose Travel (http://www.MontroseTravel.com), one of the 50 largest Travel Agencies in the United States combines online deals and discounts with unmatched offline service. EZTrip.com (http://www.eztrip.com/), an online agency in Missouri, offers tickets, hotels, rental cars, and modest amounts of destination info. Bayless Travel Associates (http://www.baylesstravel.com) Full-service Vacation Travel (Domestic and International) in Oklahoma City. Book your vacation on-line. Isha Tours & Travels (http://www.ishatravels.com) in Edison NJ provide consolidators airfares to anywhere in the world. Enid Cohen <enid.cohen@worldtravel.com> affiliated with WorldTravel Partners in Dallas, has over 30 years of experience both arranging travel and travelling herself, specializes in meticulous, old-fashioned service to business and leisure/personal travellers. Compass Point Travel <travel@cptravel.com> is a full service agency that welcomes Internet customers. Specialties include custom planning of major trips, Club Med, discount cruises, adventure travel, and US-originating international travel. Web page (http://www.cptravel.com/). Germantown Travel <airtkts@airtravel.com> in Germantown Md is a full service airline ticket agency suppling information and discounted tickets for domestic and international travel. Web site (http://airtravel.com) with special fares and Caribbean tour info. CTM Travel <ctm-trav@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us> in Coral Springs FL welcomes business from the Internet. Genie Travel Services Inc. <info@genietravel.com> specializes in discounted international and domestic airline tickets for Internet customers. For prices, see their web page (http://www.genietravel.com). Endeavour Travel <Endeavour@Anzac.com> is a travel agency specialising in NZ and Australian travel, staffed in large part by Aussies and Kiwis. Web pages (http://www.anzac.com/endvr/endvr.htm). I got Circle Pacific tickets from them, service was decent. Marla Baer-Peckham <marla@iquest.com> of Cornucopia First Class Travel is a full-service travel agency. Web page (http://iquest.com/~marla). Uniglobe GEM Travel <gary@uniglobe-gem.com> or Full service agency, WWW site (http://www.uniglobe-gem.com/) with leisure info and travel request forms. Our goal is not to find the cheapest product, but the best value for money. Park'N Ticket Travel <sonny@photobooks.atdc.gatech.edu> located in Atlanta GA, specializes in Business Travel. We have a 24 hour travel agency as well as a 1,250 car parking facility with a 24 hour shuttle service. Paul Foley <pfoley@his.com>, at Passport Executive Travel of Alexandria, VA, a full-service agency, CLIA, and IGTA, specializes in Corporate Travel, personal preference is Gay and Lesbian travel. Web page (http://www.prairienet.org/business/travex/homepage.html). The Travel Experts <travex@prairienet.org> in Champaign, Illinois is a full service agency with a special emphasis in Caribbean destinations and the UK, and have expertise in Israel and the Middle East. Web page (http://www.prairienet.org/business/travex/homepage.html). Newlywed Susan Mitchell Skinner <YourTrvlAg@aol.com> at Online Travelservices near Atlanta specializes in honeymoons and family vacations -- but also work with consolidators and offer fast turnaround on quotes to international destinations. Priority Travel <ffraim@tiac.net> is a small agency in Waltham, Mass specializing in corporate travel for small companies and start-ups who need to minimize their travel costs. Also have specialist in European business or vacation travel. World Travel <worldtra@sprynet.com> located in Stockton, CA, specializes in travel to Southeast Asia. A Traveler's Choice Associate. Super Saver Travel <amdenver@usa.pipeline.com>, Aurora, CO, offer personalized service in getting you the lowest available airfares out of Denver and Colorado Springs area. Domestic & International. Adventure Travel Service (http://www.greencis.net/~ats) provides domestic and international consolidator tickets. Book online for domestic tickets using ITN, and Spring Break '97 packages now available. Email <ats@greencis.net>. QuinWell Travel Service (http://www.quinwell.com) is a full-service travel agency offering SABRE online reservations & ticketing, discounted cruises & tours, free newsletter, and an extensive web site. Metropolitan Travel (http://www.mettravel.com), specializes in corporate travel, res/tickets through ITN, offers reports online, tracking for companies and employees, tracks trips, FF miles, etc., including pre-trip reports. Also vacation specials through "Club Met". Heather Trofholz <jt@prtcl.com>, Aliso Veijo CA, corporate/business executive specialist. Knowledgeable, personalized service, delivery, maps, vacation planning to the traveling individual. Available for new So. Orange County clients. Web site (http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/3005). Certified Travel Services (http://www.certravel.com) is building a network of independent travel agents who operate from their homes or places of business. Complete training, software, reservations system, manuals and continuing support is offered. Listings of travel specials and on-line air travel booking is provided through their Internet site. RMS InHouse Travel (http://www.rmssys.com) is a full service agency offering on-line reservation system. Travel Service, Inc. <kimlogan@usa.net> has three offices in the Tulsa area, in the business since 1973, are a full service agency, specializing in groups. Rosemarie Hughey at Go Vegas First Class <govegas@aol.com> located in Las Vegas NV provides a service to travelers to Las Vegas and surroundings as well as airfares to Europe. German spoken. Lovely Planet Discount Travel Service <premrup@micron.net> in Hailey, ID specializes in researching international discounted airfares. Biztravel.com went out of business in September 2001 B. Charles and Co. (www.airreservations.com) has lists of discounted fares and travel agent contacts. No on-line schedules or booking, call their toll-free number. Kayron and Don Lance <jlance@sprynet.com>, independent agents for Carroll Cruises and Tours, specialize in cruises, tours and packages. Especially knowledgable about the Caribbean. Online reservations (http://www.travelopinion.com) and Caribbean hotel information (<http://www.caribbeanopinion.com). Terminal One Travel (http://www.terminal-one-travel.com) offers direct bookings via Worldspan. Also packages, custom tours. E-mail mailing list. MtRoyalTravel (http://www.MtRoyalTravel.com), full service "personalized" travel agency for leisure and corporate travel arrangements, many packages, all experienced agents and many price ranges (economy to first class). Over 25 years of experience. * Tours, cruises, and special interest agents located in the U.S. Port compass (http://www.portcompass.com) is a shore excursion megastore specializing in discounted port tours for cruise passengers worldwide. Regions include South America, Europe, Alaska, Caribbean, Hawaii, etc. Air Savings (http://www.air-savings.com) specializes in cheap flights to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Srilanka. We also offer cheap airline tickets to Dubai, and the rest of the middle east. Kalliste Tours (http://www.kallistetours.com) specializes exclusively in Corsica since 1999. Escorted luxury cultural tours in spring and winter for 4 to 8 people. Journeys Off the Tourist Track (http://www.balijourneys.com) is a 11 year expert in groups and unique individual vacations to Bali, Thailand, Fiji, Hawaii plus individual African Safaris and Off the Tourist Track travel with discounted air to most international destinations. Travelagentus.com (http://travelagentus.com) is a consolidator travel agency primarily promoting business class air ticktes to Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia. Fly Malaysia Air (http://www.flymas.com) offers discount airline tickets on Malaysia Airlines for international flights departing the United States via LAX and Newark to Malaysia and southeast Asia. Trav.com (http://www.trav.com) offers Online Reservations for Budget Accommodation. Book hostels, hotels, apartments, campsites and bed and breakfasts online. Instant reservations guaranteed. Online accommodation finder. Airline Consolidator (http://www.airlineconsolidator.com) is a retail consolidator and travel agency specializing in discount international airfares. Offers online booking and live telephone support. Destination Southern Africa (http://www.amasafari.com) is a full service travel company for Southern and Eastern Africa. Tours, safaris, car hire, packages, hotels, transfers for groups or individuals. Since 1980, Eric Fenster <moscowtrip2004@yahoo.com> has organized affordable study trips to Moscow to examine political and economic change in Russia first-hand. All adults welcome. Air Discounters International (http://www.airdiscounters.com/) offers discounted airline tickets from the US to Europe, Africa, Asia, South Pacific, Central America, and South America. They also have hotel discounts in most major cities worldwide. Bonjour USA tours (http://www.bonjourusa.com) specializes in providing ground services for leisure and business group travel to all major cities, attractions, sights and National Parks of the USA. Travel Tek (http://travtek.net) specializes in discounted business and first class airfares to international destinations. Walter Ward (wward14@bellsouth.net) at Jacquin Travel in Miami, a full service agency including Gay/Lesbian travel. Air Overseas (http://www.airoverseas.com) in Miami specializes in travel to Europe. Air fares, car rental rates, and European Rail programs. Travel Network (http://www.tvllink.com/travel.network) of Walnut Creek, CA is a full service agency. Cruises, Jamaican All Inclusive Resorts and Hawaiian Vacations are among our specialties. Try our "Rock Bottom Fare Finder" E-mail <travelen@ix.netcom.com.> Superior Travel Service <akilby@aol.com> specializing in Singles Groups, age 45 to 60's. Accredited CLIA member specializing in cruises, Have cruised Europe, Panama Canal,Bermuda, Alaska, etc. Mike Espinosa <maluku@malkilu.com> at Maluku Adventures is a tour operator specializing in SE Asia, and Nepal. We offer kayaking, diving, and treks. Manny Segall at Vacation Partners <manny@vacationpartners.com> runs a service that finds compatible travel mates for single travelers, for companionship and to avoid the dreaded single supplement. Web page (http://www.vacationpartners.com). Bill Byrnes <William144@aol.com> author of "Airfare Secrets" specializes in high value Round the World, long haul and missionary travel. Offshore ticketing from Euro and Asian consolidators. Torcaza Trails <rdrake@ing.ula.ve> offer a mountain treking and a tropical forest option in western Venezuela. Web page of Venezuela info (http://venezuela.mit.edu). European Traveler,Inc. <usdirect@wizard.com> specializes in individual vacations to Europe. Full colour brochure "EURO CITY TRIPS" available on request offers 2-3-5 and 7 days packages in up to 40 cities all over Europe. Association of Business Travellers <abt1@attmail.com> offers the international traveller a hotel reservation service, specials at top class hotels, restaurants, service office facilities, lost lugage tracing, etc. Web page (http://www.abt-travel.com). Cruisin <longleyr@tiac.net> The first exclusively on line cruise only agency. Web page (http://www.crocker.com/cruisin). Island Dreams Tours & Travel <info@islandream.com> specializes in scuba diving, snorkeling, and world-wide adventure travel. Web page (http://www.islandream.com/island/index.htm) with a broad range of information of interest to scuba divers and international travelers. Bill Welk <Bill@Lodging1.com> of Vacation Connection operate a lodging reservation service in Oshkosh, Wi. and serve many special events organizers by providing free use of our toll free phone numbers for information and lodging connections. Web page (http://www.atw.fullfeed.com/~dadvanc/). OnlineTravel <online@eurorail.com> offers European railpasses, Eurail travel, and the Chunnel channel tunnel, with planning maps, car rental and discount air fares. Web page (http://www.eurorail.com). Travel Agents International (http://www.traveltai.com) specialize in corporate travel and cruises. Located in Florida, offering special insight into Florida vacation destinations. Reservations via ITN, and a custom designed form for cruise quotations. First Class Travel <travel11@ix.netcom.com> specializes in sports and leisure travel, welcome Internet customers, E-mail for info. Classic Travel <dbj@internetmci.com>, full service agency specializing in cruises, caribbean dream vacations, european discoveries, mexican getaways, las vegas sprees, etc. Travelfax newsletter loaded with specials, send your fax number for our latest copy. Barbara & Earl Seppala (http://www.selective-travel.com/) of Selective Travel, Scottsdale AZ, outside agents, specializing in cruises and international tours. Email <select@selective-travel.com>. ModTravel (http://www.modtravel.com) are Leisure Travel Consultants specializing in Hawaii and Mexico destinations. Mexico Online (http://www.mexonline.com/travel) is a complete reservation service dedicated to Mexico. We offer vacation packages to 100 of the most popular resort and specialty properties, archeological tours and the Copper Canyon, and can include discounted airfare, car rental, and fishing expeditions. Marvelous Tickets (http://www.marveloustickets.com) specializes in worldwide sports tours & tickets, offering tickets and travel for major events in football, baseball, tennis, boxing, racing, etc. for individuals & groups. Event information is available at web site. Barbara Kwiatek <Bkwia@aol.com>, CTC, MCC, Aussie Specialist, Holland Specialist, Disney Specialist, Unique Travel. Phil Carta's NEW ADVENTURES (http://www.newadventures.com) specialize in vacations to exotic, sunny, tropical destinations and do 75% of our business through the internet. E-mail newsletter. Lighthouse Travel (http://www.lighthousetravel.com) is a travel agent that specializes in cruises, members of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and experienced cruise counselor. No fee for our services and discount all cruises. Global Express Travel <Globalex@ultranet.com> specializes in discount leisure and discount midweek business travel. * Agents located in Canada Nathalie Laroche at Uniglobe Voyage Supreme (http://www.uniglobesupreme.ca) in Kirkland, Quebec, offers travel services to individuals and groups. Nathalie also specializes in cruises, members of the Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and experienced cruise counselor. Will serve you in English as in French. Email nathalie@uniglobesupreme.ca. Cruise Vacation World (http://www.cruisevacationworld.com) located in Toronto specializes in discount cruises and cruise vacation packages. Member of Cruise Lines International Association and government registered. African Wings Travel & Tours (http://africanwings.com) in Toronto specializes in travel to Africa and other international destinations. Debby Lampron-Lynch at Voyage Absolue (http://www.voyageabsolue.com) of St-Hyacinthe, Quebec, offers travel service to individuals and groups. Will serve you in Engish as in French. Email <absolue@ntic.qc.ca>. Future Travel/Voyages L'Avenir <ttifutur@total.net> of Montreal offers complete leisure and corporate travel services, they accept reservation and information requests via e-mail, in business since 1974. Marc-Andre Lalande <lalandem@nash.pubnix.net> at Voyages Vacances Tourisme in Montreal specializes in incoming and outgoing tourism, leisure and corporate travel from all over the world. Affiliated with wholesaler Groupe Voyages Quebec. Jimmy Georgiadis <rextrvl@generation.net>, Montreal, Que., has 45 years of experience with travel to the land of the Gods - GREECE. "If it's Greece, we have it". Can arrange, hotels, car rentals, yacht rentals, tours. Web page (http://www.generation.net/~rextrvl). Robert Zuzek at Kompas Express Travel (http://home.istar.ca/~kompex) is a specialist on Spain and Italy has contacts with many local suppliers does "a la carte" itineraries and has best Airfares with 6 European carriers ex Toronto. B & P Travel Services (http://imf.nb.ca/bptravel) operates from Fredericton, N,B.,Canada. Dealing in Quality Travel Products, Insurance and Discounted International Air Fares. Departing from Halifax, Montreal and Ottawa. * Agents located in Europe All Destinations (http://www.all-destinations.com), a UK agent established in 1988, offers flights, packages, and other travel products. Destinations Europe (http://www.destinationseurope.com) is a specialist company offering a personal service for UK and Europe including weddings, honeymoons, tailormade holidays, adventure holidays for couple or small groups. Also garden and military group holidays. Flight Bureau (http://www.flightbureau.com) is based in Edinburgh but serving people worldwide, specialise in flights, particularly odd itineraries or RTW trips. Other services include hotels, car hire and travel insurance. Discounted fares available with many airlines, including inbound fares from Australia and the US to the UK. Sky Tours (http://www.sky-tours.com) is a German agency offering a combined database of published and discounted airfares. They note that European fares are occasionally lower than US fares for the same flights. DriveEurope (http://www.driveeurope.com/) offers the European Driving Tours as well as car and motorhome rentals and more then 5000 hotels. Zak Travel <zak@dircon.co.uk> is an on-line British discount flight agency specialising in flights from the UK to Europe and worldwide. We offer the cheapest scheduled and charter flights and offer a no-obligation flight reservation service. Jan Hutchings <jan@caribean.its.net> of Concord World Travel, London, arranges tailor-made travel worldwide at sensible prices: tours, flights, accommodation, car hire, cruises. For departures from Britain. Global Adventures <mikem@globaladventures.com> specializes in custom travel for the active and adventurous traveler to Australia, the South Pacific, and Southern Africa. Web page:http://www.globaladventures.com (.) Andean Trails <andeantrails@belmont.abel.co.uk> specializes in small group, off beat trekking and mountain biking adventures in the Andes. Web site (http://www.abel.co.uk/~belmont/andean-trails.htm). Shelley at Goel Travel International <goel-travel-international@ukbusiness.com> offers business flights, hotels, conferences, and limousines for discerning individuals who appreciate hassle-free service and privacy. Web site (http://www.ukbusiness.com/goel-travel-international). European Travel Network (http://www.etn.nl/) has an extremely cluttered web site which lets you get discounted fare quotes from a variety of travel agents. Also a link to ITN for regular booking. In March 2001 they sent mail to me which looked to me to be spam, they swear that I'd left the address they spammed with a fare info request on their site a year earlier. I find that very hard to believe, both because I don't recall visiting their site at all in 2000, and because the address they spammed isn't one that I'd have used there. Airline Network (http://www.airnet.co.uk/) has on-line discount fares and booking for flights from the UK. Flightbookers (http://www.flightbookers.co.uk)p offers flight booking and info. They appear to be affiliated with TISS, described earlier. Imp Travel (user@imptravel.itsnet.co.uk) of Lincoln UK offer discounted schedule and charter flights ex Uk,plus discounted package holidays. We also arrange incoming ground arrangements within the UK and Germany on an individual basis or groups. * Agents located in other parts of the world Pagan Nomads (http://www.gonomads.com) designs, promotes and market affordable,alternative and eco-adventure tour packages to the Philippines, Asia and the World. Middle East Travels & Tours (P) Ltd. <mett@wlink.com.np> in Kupondole, Lalitpur, Nepal, arranges trekking, mountaineering, and other tours in Nepal. IranGashtTour.com (http://www.irangashttour.com), located in Iran, offers tours and other travel services for visitors to Iran. Traveller Services (HK) Ltd (http://www.traveller.com.hk) is a travel agent and local hotel consolidator in Hong Kong. Online ticketing and consolidator fares, also online hotel booking. Stellenbosch Travel (http://www.stellenbosch-travel.co.za) in South Africa, provide flights, tours and car hire in South Africa at subsidised tourist rates, also all accommodation in Cape Town and our Winelands Area. Meet the People provides small-group and private-charter day tours for international visitors to Sydney, Australia. Their web page (http://www.meetoz.com.au/g_day) has links and other visitor info. Bagwis Travel & Tours Inc. <bagwistt@dv.weblinq.com> in Davao, Philippines. specializes in international travel & local tours of the beautiful white sand beaches in Mindanao. especially Pearl farm, a must for all tourists Cyber Air Broker <philt@world.net>, Sydney, Australia, offers discounted airfares worldwide. Free internet access for travelers in Sydney. Web page (http://www.airdiscounter.com), also separate web pages for offices in Manila (http://www.airdiscounter.com/ph) and Auckland (http://www.airdiscounter.com/nz). Lucky Travel <lucky@batelco.com.bh> in Bahrain offers best rates from the Arabian Gulf to all over the world, also arranges tours to US and far east. Re'em Greiver <patra@netvision.net.il>, Patra Travel Agency in Israel, specializes in business travel, as well as groups & FIT to Israel on the upper class standards. Costa Rica Express <cricaexp@sol.racsa.co.cr>, the oldest travel agency in Costa Rica, offers tours and packages on their web page (http://www.icr.co.cr/crexpress) with a 20% discount to Internet users. Alex Poplavskiy at Transit Travel and Tours <transit@gem.co.za> in Cape Town, South Africa, offers domestic and worldwide ticketing with response and confirmation within 24 hours. Also tour operator in Southern Africa. Bob Tierney (http://vader.nw.com.au/~harley), owner of Australian Harley Holidays and Hawg Custom Harley Tours, in Western Australia, offer motorcycle tour packages, a unique holiday experience and cater to individuals through to corporate groups. Cyber Air Broker (http://www.airdiscounter.com) is an Australian based travel agency. Fare discounts offered, higher discounts if you book your own ticket via Travelocity. Gateway Travel (http://www.magna.com.au/~gatrav) is a full service agent with expertise in to travel to Russia and other CIS countries. NELL Tour & Travel Services Ltd. <nelltour@upg.mega.net.id>, tour operator in Sulawesi (Celebes) UjungPandang. Indonesia. Specializing in daily Bugis-Toraja package tour, off the beaten track tours, special interest tours ,cruises , etc. NOTE: If you're a travel agent and would like to be listed, drop me a note and I'll add you. Please make my life easier by e-mailing me a three-line or so description in the style above. Thanks. PLEASE NOTE: I am not a travel agent, just an interested traveller. Everything I know about on-line travel info is in this FAQ. Don't write or call me asking for fare quotes, packages, or any other travel agent info, because I don't have it. ion in the style above. Thanks. PLEASE NOTE: I am not a travel agent, just an interested traveller. Everything I know about on-line travel info is in this FAQ. Don't write or call me asking for fare quotes, packages, or any other travel agent info, because I don't have it. sed travel agency. Fare discounts offered, higher discounts if you book your own ticket via Travelocity. Gateway Travel (http://www.magna.com.au/~gatrav) is a full service agent with expertise in to travel to Russia and other CIS countries. NELL Tour & Travel Services Ltd. <nelltour@upg.mega.net.id>, tour operator in Sulawesi (Celebes) UjungPandang. Indonesia. Specializing in daily Bugis-Toraja package tour, off the beaten track tours, special interest tours ,cruises , etc. NOTE: If you're a travel agent and would like to be listed, drop me a note and I'll add you. Please make my life easier by e-mailing me a three-line or so description in the style above. Thanks. PLEASE NOTE: I am not a travel agent, just an interested traveller. Everything I know about on-line travel info is in this FAQ. 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