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Travel Specials;
Check local news paper’s travel section, travel agents advertise wholesale travel specials. Travel Section you will find low advertised fares, international or domestic. Talking with a travel agent is always helpful. They can assist with lower fares that might suit your budget and itinerary.

You might search flights on the internet; there are many online booking agencies with discounted travel.
After the research, ask your travel agent if they have superior options. Most travel agents have these options. Example major airlines distribute their wholesale fares to travel agents via the following sources: -

Airlines to consolidator Agents
Consolidators distributes to Wholesale Agents
Wholesale Agents distributes to local travel agents
Agents resell to public wholesale discounts on most airlines.
Ask them always – a one stop shop.
Travel agencies resell to public including their service fee, providing good savings to all travelers on worldwide destinations.

Important Travel Tips Below

Purchase an airline ticket on same airlines as roundtrip
If tickets bought on 2 separate airlines, both must have baggage rights.
Make sure your luggage can be checked in up to your destination
Never purchase tickets, if airlines don’t have baggage rights between them.
You will be required to receive your luggage and recheck in again.
If so a problem, in foreign countries have baggage limitations.
You might end up paying for extra luggage per pound basis.
You can't break your journey, or luggage limits might apply
For example from the USA is granted 50 pounds per bag,
In Europe luggage limitations reduces 30 pounds per bag
The difference 20 pounds you will end up paying as extra luggage .
Always look into all stipulations before you purchase separate airline tickets
This is always your responsibility as a traveler check with Embassies
All Travel documents must be valid 6 months
Or else you will be denied boarding at the airports

God Bless Amen! By Cathy B Kaur, Houston, Texas

We worked with Fort Worth – based comedy group, Curtis Needs a Ride, to capture all the travel tips you could want and how to get through security safetly and swiftly. The video was shot at Southwest Airlines Headquarters in Dallas, and edited by digitalshakedown and Double A Pictures

Traveling can really get in your bones, and sometimes, with just a couple of months between you and your last vacation, you begin to get the rambling jones again.  The thought of revisiting a favorite tropical island, or seeing a different climate and culture with each vacation, sets the constant traveler on edge.  When a sudden pass from work is offered, or you are told that you need to take your pass days or lose them at year’s end, which is just around the corner, finding a last minute pass deal through an airline can be a life saver.

With so many airlines to select from, and, depending upon how close you live to a major international airport, like O’Hare in Chicago, there could be many international as well as national and regional carriers offering last minute pass deals.  When an aircraft is less that 60% full, with only a couple of days until departure, they will offer cheap airfare, and in conjunction with a resort that they have a relationship with, offer last minute pass deals, from all inclusive resorts or private beach cabins, to 2-star hotels titled “Oceam View” that are 10 or more blocks from the ocean (which is not in view) and everything in between.

For where you live, check with your local airfield to see what carriers offer last minute pass deals.  Afterwards, either visit, call or check the websites of the airlines that do offer the last minute pass deals.  Keep looking until you find a deal that suits your sporting, recreational and leisure preferences.  You might have to go to an island or tropical location that would not normally be on your wish list of places to visit, but if the price is right, why not?

From aa.com (American Airlines), continental.com (Continental Airlines), southwestvacations.com (Southwest Airlines), aircanada.ca (Air Canada) and many others, there is a great chance that at least one of the sites that cater to last minute pass deals through airlines would have your perfect pass for you, at a fraction of the normal rates.  However, there is always the possibility that there might be no vacations acquirable to the country or region that you really want to travel to would not be available.

The ideal airlines for last minute pass travel can also be found on on-line pass sites, like expedia.com, travelocity.com, tripcentral.com or redtag.com, and the deals are commiserate with high and low tourist seasons.  Going to Cuba in late July or August would make for a rather cheap vacation, since not too many people go to tropical locales during the summer months.

Whenever you have the rambling jones, and the need for travel is biting hard on your soul, why not check with the pass providers, you might just end up with a deal of a lifetime for your perfect pass setting.

Travel safe.