You have seen all the photos on Instagram of beautiful beaches, pristine snowcapped mountains and iconic landmarks and you have decided to take the plunge and go away for a week or two. You then look at airfares, see the prices and decided instead to just stay home. Let’s face it, expensive airfares are probably the biggest reason people don’t travel. … [Read more...]
The Great Airfare Scheme
Airline travel in the US is not a service industry. In a service industry companies are competitive and attempt to do what they can to attract and keep customers. A restaurant or Hotel that continually raised prices, gave poor service and didn’t care what their customers thought would be out of business pretty quick. … [Read more...]
New Airfare Rules
Image by sparktography via Flickr How often have you seen a ridiculously low airfare published only to find out that when you try to purchase a ticket that a tax larger than the airfare is added on? Well it happened to me today when I spent time purchasing a ticket for my trip to Thailand next week. I have been aggravated for awhile to see these fares and then waste time going … [Read more...]