25 Specialists in International Airfares
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, September, 2002 by Evelyn Kanter
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Airfare consolidators (a fancy name for discounters) differ in their ambitions: Some of them sell to the entire world. They claim to have deals to just about everywhere in the United States and abroad, and on dozens of airlines. But other, more modest consolidators (and we prefer using these smaller firms) specialize in just two or three countries and usually have quietly exclusive contracts with just one or two airlines flying to those few locations, at lower-than-usual rates.
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Most are located in the midst of large ethnic communities in the United States and mainly sell tickets to fellow countrymen traveling back to the homeland. And many of these same ethnic firms also deal with the public at large (a prerequisite for a mention in this article), and their agents speak English over the phone (another prerequisite). We've ferreted out the names and claims of 25 such specialist discounters (it wasn't ...
