Don't Expect Online Travel Deals
from the too-popular dept
The good old days when you could scour the internet for a last minute travel deal may be ending. Since more and more people use the internet to book flights, the airlines now have less incentive to give crazy deals for online flyers. So, the cheap online fares are getting harder to find. This year, they're even saying that more people booked flights through the internet than through travel agents. While that's probably not a suprise to anyone who's booked online for years, it does signify a big shift in how the mainstream thinks about finding airline tickets.
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