What You May Not Know About Last Minute Air Flight Discounts

[Lula Phoenix]

There is a growing trend among travelers today and that trend is to
wait until the last minute before you book a flight. Unfortunately,
the way most airline pricing structures are set up, the longer you
wait and the closer you get to your deadline, the more you will end up
paying for your ticket. So why is the trend going in the opposite
direction? Well, if you know where to look for last minute air flight
discounts, you can find good deals online so you don't have to pay the
"premium" price.
Many believe these discount deals are no longer an "insider's
paradise" and if you know where to go, you can get a great deal for
yourself. Many travelers are booking directly with airline carriers
themselves and cutting out the middleman so they can negotiate a
better price. Other travelers are finding package deals that include
discount travel, destination vacation and are combining other services
such as hotel or car rental. Many seasoned travelers use specialized
services that focus on a single niche of travel, such as all-inclusive
deals, cruises or even a single country. These service providers have
worked out special deals because they are better able to move
inventory that might otherwise sit vacant.
Where can a traveler such as yourself find such amazing online deals?
If you do a search for "last minute airfare" you will see a huge
number of results come up. Once site that comes up is called "Booking
Buddy" and they are an aggregator airfare search engine that looks at
all of the last minute deals that are available from the online
booking engines. In addition to airfare, you can also search for
vacation packages, cruises, vacation rentals, hotels and car rentals.
If you are looking for good bargains, this is a great place to start
your search.
Another place that you can check out online if you are looking for
travel within North America, are the airlines themselves. You will
need to go and look for special deals within their website. If you
don't find any listed on their website, don't give up hope. Call them
and see what they have available in terms of last minute deals. If you
aren't getting a satisfactory interaction with the agent and getting
the deal you want, move on to the next airline.
The site "C Fares" actually goes to the different flight booking
engines and compares last minute air flight discounts across the
different engines. This gives you a good idea on which booking engines
are going to give you the better deals. In running through an actual
search, there was as much as $200 difference on a flight from New York
City to Denver. It is worth your while to look beyond the first result
you get.
The process of getting last minute air flight discounts is really one
of deciding where you want to go and then finding the different search
engine flight aggregators to help you simultaneously look up the
available flights. Don't stop at the first result you get because you
can save yourself several hundred dollars if you just poke around a
bit further. To really know how to get the lowest deals with the
airlines directly, sometimes you need additional insider information
that can get you the steep discounts.