“Fly There For Less guides the air traveler through a maze of air fares....you can save some mega bucks from Martin’s creative techniques and strategies.”

— Los Angeles Times


Fly There For Less

How To Save Money Flying Worldwide

by Bob Martin

Whether flying to Paris for a vacation, Chicago for business or Hong Kong for shopping, this widely acclaimed book will save you money on your air fare.

You can save up to hundreds of dollars on your next airline ticket. Whether leisure or business traveler, Fly There For Less shows you hundreds of concrete, easily followed techniques to consistently obtain the lowest fares on domestic and international flights.

Fly There For Less gives you the details on how to search out the lowest air fares so that you can:

  • Save up to 25 percent on air fare by simply choosing the right flight to your destination.
  • Cut the cost of flying with little-known fare types, such as air passes.
  • Dramatially decrease your fare by selecting the right airline. One reader using this strategy flew from London to Nairobi, Kenya, for just $230.
  • Uncover nontraditional ticket sources that save you up to 60 percent off the lowest promotional fares.
  • Open up low-fare opportunities with air courier travel, frequent-flyer programs, charter flights, travel packages and consolidators.
  • Reap savings by being alert to circumstances offering air travel bargains, including international currency fluctuations.
  • Master creative techniques such as buying two tickets instead of one to save money.



Partial Table of Contents of Fly There For Less

Just take a look at how comprehensive the information is in Fly There For Less. Here's a partial list of the book's contents:

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1 — THE BASICS
Flexibility
Flexibility For Leisure Travelers
Flexibility For Business Travelers
Off-Peak Flights
Weekday or Weekend
Travel Seasons
European Travel Seasons
Other International Travel Seasons
U. S. Travel Seasons
Promotional Fares
Capacity Control
Restrictions
Early Booking
Waitlisting
Blackouts
Thanksgiving and Christmas Specials

Chapter 2 — FINDING AND BUYING LOW FARES
Advertising
Ads For International Flights
Matching-Fare Ads
Advertising Fine Print
Beyond the Ads
Airline Reservation Centers
TravelAgents
Questions to Ask
The Internet
When to Buy
Refunds on Nonrefundable Tickets
Extraordinary Bargains
Travel Scams
Post-Purchase Searching

Chapter 3 — BEYOND THE STANDARD FARES
Status Fares
Military
Students
Youth Fares
Children
Families
Senior Citizens
Senior Discounts On International Flights
Meeting Fares
Emergency-Travel Fares
How to Get a Bereavement Fare
Emergencies After You’ve Bought a Ticket
Air Transportation to Medical Facilities
Standby Fares
Compare Costs
Standby Advantages
Stopovers
Stopovers For a Package Deal
Business Travel Stopovers
Maximum Permitted Mileage
Air passes
Travel Packages
Air Fare to Your Cruise
Round-the-World Fares

Chapter 4 — CHOOSING THE RIGHT AIRLINE
Low-Fare Airlines
Low-Fare Airlines Keep All Fares Down
Charter Flights
Drawbacks
Shopping For a Charter
Intra-European Charters
Air Taxis

Chapter 5 — NONTRADITIONAL TICKET SOURCES
Consolidators
How the Consolidator Marketplace Works
U.S. Domestic Consolidator Flights
Consolidator Drawbacks and Precautions
Consolidators Abroad
Locating Consolidators Abroad
Precautions
Gimmicks
Product-Purchase Gimmicks
An Old-Standby Gimmick
Freebie Coupons
Free Companion Tickets
Ticket Booklets
Gift Certificates
Some Last Words On Gimmicks
A Space-Available Broker
Air Courier Travel
Arranging Your Courier Flight
Contacts
Using a Courier Booking Agent

Chapter 6 — FREQUENT FLYER PROGRAMS
Airline Frequent-Flyer Plans
Bonus Miles
Airline Credit Cards
Frequent-Flyer Variations

Chapter 7 — SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
New Airlines
New Routes
Fare Wars
Strikes
Economic Slowdowns
International Currency Fluctuations
European Round Robins
Double Ticketing
Help With Currency-Differential Ticketing

Chapter 8 — CREATIVE STRATEGIES
Competitive Routes
Hubs and Spokes
Fortress Hubs
Connections
Off-line Connections
Separately Priced Segments
Airport Selection
Multiple-Airport Cities
Alternative Airports
Waivers
Nested Ticketing
One-Way Trips
Hidden Cities
Finding Your Own Hidden Cities
Hidden City Drawbacks
European and Intra-European Fares
Alternate Destinations
Stopovers
Eurailpasses
Group Fares
Bumps
Restrictions on Bump Tickets
Obtaining Bump Tickets

APPENDIX: AIRLINE CONTACTS
Airlines — U.S. and Canadian Domestic
Airlines — Foreign

The reviwers agree — this book saves you money

“Here is a coherent guide to ferreting out favorable fares....a handy reference for cost-conscious travelers....fascinating.”

— Travel & Leisure magazine


“Author Bob Martin helps air travelers get the lowest fares on domestic and international flights.”

— USA Today


“An exciting new travel guide called Fly There For Less....can save you a substantial amount of money.”

— Arthur Frommer


“An informative new handbook, Fly There For Less can help the harried business traveler who doesn’t have unlimited resources.”

— The Philadelphia Inquirer


Fly There For Less details cost-cutting methods that can be used by any international traveler.”

— Toronto Sun


“This guide, whether you travel for business or pleasure, will give you timeless techniques and tips on how to pay the lowest possible airfares every time you fly.”

— Chattanooga News-Free Press


“In this easy-to-read book, Martin gives you the details so you can decide which (strategies) will work for you.”

— Seattle Post-Intelligencer


About the author

Bob Martin has written textbooks and training lessons for the travel industry as well as travel articles for newspapers and magazines. He is the author of four travel books and has shared his travel expertise through workshops, on talk radio and on cable television’s “Travel Channel.”


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Fly There For Less
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How To Save Money Flying Worldwide

$11.95 — 254 pages, 2003, ISBN 0-937281-17-4

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