You Gotta Have a Gimmick: 6 Airfare Consolidators (Discounters) That Do It Differently

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, October, 1999 by Katie Crouch

In our continuing series on travel discounters, appearing in the first six issues of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, we've named companies that specialize in reducing the price of either international airfares, domestic airfares, hotel rooms, international car rentals, or cruises. Now, in this seventh issue of our magazine, we turn to several additional companies that either specialize in tickets to distinct geographical regions of the world or use unusual means for making their tickets available to the public, or else sell only around-the-world airfares. Obviously, the discounters employ endless ingenuity to stand out from a growing number of competitors in the field. Here are six that do just that:

ECONOMY TRAVEL Founded in Atlanta 12 years ago, Economy Travel-a specialist...

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