Travel: A Vacation Well Spent
Newsweek, April, 2006 by Ramin Setoodeh
The average American will take eight vacation days this summer--and spend several hundred dollars to get there. To help you plan ahead, we asked the editors of Budget Travel for advice on how to save some change. Here are their top tips.
1 Quick! Get a ticket. Fuel prices, along with industry pressure to increase profits, are pushing flight prices to the sky. In February, domestic travelers paid an average 12.9 cents per mile flown, up 12.4 percent from last year, according to the Air Transport Association. And prices are likely to keep increasing in the peak season. The lesson: cheap seats are scarce; get to a computer now.
2 Let's make a deal. How to leave no bargain unturned: start by searching your favorite airline's site. Then comparison-shop on the big sites...
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