| Getting cheap airfares these days isn't so easy, | | | | varying degrees of success. In Canada cheap |
| especially if you live in North America. | | | | flights are very hard to come by. There's basically |
| Meanwhile budget airlines are booming elsewhere | | | | nothing in the domestic market...internationally, |
| in the world. In Thailand for example, you can fly | | | | Zoom Airlines has just started offering cheap |
| from Bangkok to Phuket for about 30 dollars on | | | | flight to Europe. Otherwise you may get lucky if |
| Air Asia, a relatively new budget airline. And of | | | | you're traveling when a charter is. |
| course in Europe, you have airlines like Ryanair | | | | With the web, shopping for air fares is easy. |
| that offer incredibly cheap airline tickets between | | | | There are any companies selling plane tickets on |
| many European cities. You can go from London to | | | | the internet. From the comfort of your chair you |
| Paris for fifty bucks, as long as you don't mind | | | | can surf many different web sites until you find |
| having no preselected seats and a very strict | | | | the best fare possible. This is power that only |
| weight limit. | | | | travel agents had just a few years ago! |
| Those types of discount airlines haven't really | | | | Carefully check out exchange and refund policies - |
| made it over to this side of the pond. Still, with | | | | sites like Expedia for instance are known to be |
| companies like Jet Blue etc you can find some | | | | quite strict in that area. Most online air ticket sales |
| decent deals, especially if you buy plane tickets | | | | use E-tickets - typically the company that sells |
| early; or take advantage of last minute deals. In | | | | you the tickets just emails it to you. Print it, bring |
| Mexico recently we've seen companies like | | | | it to the airport and have a safe and stress-free |
| Azteca Airlines, Volaris, and Interjet attempt to | | | | trip! |
| replicate Ryanair type of budget service; with | | | | |