Smart Travel

Thinking of flying by air for the first time? Set aside your fears it is as easy as ridding a bus. Air travel is safe and quick. All you need to do is follow the rules and your flight will be trouble free. Before you book tickets log on to the World Wide World and read articles on air travel, there is information of booking tickets, airport parking, security measures, how to prepare for a flight, about jet lag and long haul flights, as well as many tickets on managing packing, airport chaos, and air sickness. Travelers today have many options as far as air travel ticket bookings are concerned. You can book on a low cost air carrier or a regular flight. The only difference is that low cost airlines offer no frills like food and beverages. 1. Tickets can be booked at airline offices, websites, through travel agents or through online websites devoted to selling flight tickets. 2. Before you book a ticket you need to determine when you want to travel and whether your travel plans have a ch...

Flying in an air plane, with seat belt around your belly and air hostesses taking your order is no more just a dream for most now. With the kind of competition emerging in the civil aviation industry, the air fares have dropped down to the lowest levels ever. Sometimes passengers even wonder whether the airline is earning something from them or not with such low priced cheap air tickets. Crashing down of air ticket prices started when the private sector was let in to the civil aviation and the formalities related to the process were eased off. With this decision of the government many small sizes airlines have dwelled into the industry and have been making sound profits as low cost carriers. Since that very time there has been a radical change in the way people used to fly. Everybody knows how seriously these private firms take their business and how lethal is the sense of competition among them. Once a small scale private players reduces its air fare prices, the leaders in the busines...

By Jennifer Merin Face it: There's no guarantee that you'll score the lowest airfare. Even if you shop conscientiously and compare fares -- even after you've called the airlines, browsed airline and other travel Web sites and scanned newspapers, you're likely to discover, after you've booked and paid for your ticket, that fares fall before your departure date. Frustrating, isn't it? Good news: Several new travel Web sites are attempting to help you hedge your bets on airfares. Based on seasonal pricing trends and the history of how fares have risen and/or fallen during the past several years, these sites predict whether fares will rise or fall during your pre-travel period, and will advise you to buy immediately or wait until closer to your desired departure date. One travel Web site, Farecast.com , actually offers a sort-of guarantee that its predictions will help you save money on flights from 75 airports across the United States. Claiming that its fo...