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Last minute air flight discounts are easier to come across than you think

By B Hopkins

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Published: 05Jul2009
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There is a growing trend among travelers today and that trend is to wait until the last minute before you book a flight. Unfortunately, the way most airline pricing structures are set up, the longer you wait and the closer you get to your deadline, the more you will end up paying for your ticket. So why is the trend going in the opposite direction? Well, if you know where to look for last minute air flight discounts, you can find good deals online so you don't have to pay the "premium" price.

Many believe these discount deals are no longer an "insider's paradise" and if you know where to go, you can get a great deal for yourself. Many travelers are booking directly with airline carriers themselves and cutting out the middleman so they can negotiate a better price. Other travelers are finding package deals that include discount travel, destination vacation and are combining other services such as hotel or car rental. Others are taking advantage of specialized niche services that only focus on one small travel niche, such as cruises, all inclusive deals, or even a particular area of the world. These service providers have worked out special deals because they are better able to move inventory that might otherwise sit vacant.

So where can you find such deals online? If you do a search for "last minute airfare" you will see a huge number of results come up. Once site that comes up is called "Booking Buddy" and they are an aggregator airfare search engine that looks at all of the last minute deals that are available from the online booking engines. In addition to airfare, you can also search for vacation packages, cruises, vacation rentals, hotels and car rentals. This is a good place to start to look for great deals.

Another place that you can check out online if you are looking for travel within North America, are the airlines themselves. You will need to go and look for special deals within their website. If you don't find any listed on their website, don't give up hope. Call them and see what they have available in terms of last minute deals. If they don't have anything, and you don't know how to pull out the big guns on them, then go to the next available airline.

The site "C Fares" actually goes to the different flight booking engines and compares last minute air flight discounts across the different engines. This gives you a good idea on which booking engines are going to give you the better deals. In running through an actual search, there was as much as $200 difference on a flight from New York City to Denver. It is worth your while to look beyond the first result you get.

The process of getting last minute air flight discounts is really one of deciding where you want to go and then finding the different search engine flight aggregators to help you simultaneously look up the available flights. Don't stop at the first result you get because you can save yourself several hundred dollars if you just poke around a bit further. To really know how to get the lowest deals with the airlines directly, sometimes you need additional insider information that can get you the steep discounts.

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