GET THE CHEAPEST FARE AT THE COUNTER

The number one reason most people don’t travel is the airline ticket costs too much money. There are many ways to get cheap tickets. As mentioned earlier you can visit www.airtech.com. They offer customers standby tickets, but you must be flexible, and some of us Don’t have that privilege. Here’s something passengers don’t know and that the airlines don’t want you To know. Let’s say you have a last minute trip you are planning. You didn’t know you would be able to Get off of work, but then, you find out last minute that you have all of next week off. So, you decide You want to go somewhere. Well, you know how the last minute airfares are really absurd. Here’s what You do. Fares vary. Everyone who has ever traveled knows how often fares change. They can even change Within a few minutes. If you call up a specific airline at 1:00 pm, and then you call them back at 1:05 pm, You may find that the fare has changed, and it has changed by hundreds of dollars.Here’s a trick to get The cheapest fare, (you can use this every time you travel). Everyone knows last minute fares are the most expensive, but if you use this trick, they are the cheapest. Call up the airline, and ask them what the cheapest fare is from your arrival city to your departure city. Don’t bother giving them any travel dates. Just tell them that you will go to your destination at any time, but you want them to find you the cheapest fare in the computer. For Example, Call up The reservations number and say you want to go from Los Angeles Int’l airport to Newark Int’l Airport anytime. Tell the reservations agent that you want to go when it is cheapest. You are willing to travel Any day. The agent will find you a cheap fare but the dates of travel are usually low season. Thank the agent and ask for his or her name. Don’t make the reservation just remember the exact fare. Make sure you know the EXACT fare, in dollars and cents, that theagent quoted you. Remember his or her name. You can go to the airport near you, with the paper in hand that has the Information, (the name of the agent, the fare, and travel dates that you want). Once you go to the Ticket counter, tell the agent you are paying for a ticket. The agent will probably ask you who you spoke to on the phone, and whether or not they made the reservation for you. Tell the agent that the reservations agent did make you a reservation, but you do not have the record locator handy. Then tell them the fare, in dollars and cents what you were quoted. The agent has to honor that fare. The Airline has to honor that fare. If the agent refuses to honor that fare, then ask to speak to a Supervisor. Most agents do not want to honor fares that customers say they got from a reservations agent For fear of getting reprimanded, or losing their jobs. Other agents simply don’t know how to store a fare in the amount quoted, so they want to make it easy on themselves by giving the passenger the first fare that comes up on the computer, which is always the most expensive. Once the supervisor has arrived at the ticket counter, tell them you made a reservation with XXXXXX on the phone earlier in the day, and that the representative quoted you at this fare, and show them the paper you have. Once the supervisor has seen that you have the fare written down, along with the representative’s name, they can store the fare in your reservation, and will honor that fare. Thhe supervisor will add a comment in the reservation, or PNR, noting that the fare was lowered because a quoted fare was honored. Many people try to make up a fare, and come up with an absurd number. When that happens (even when a supervisor Is present) the low fare isn’t honored because it is clearly a passenger trying to pull a fast one.