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Cheap Airfare Step 5: Deals in Your In-Box
The best deals, latest airline sales, and travel bargains delivered right to your e-mail—welcome to the wonderful world of travel newsletters and airfare E-savers
E-mailed newsletters devoted to travel deals that arrive in your inbox daily or weekly are the single best source for keeping on top of the vast variety of airfare bargains, vacation sales, trip promotions, special offers, package deals, and affordable travel tips.
Newsletters are wonderful, they're stupendous, they're unbeatable sources of bargains—and I'm not just saying that because, back in 2002/2003, my day job was writing ten stories a week for one of the biggest (Budget Travel Today). Best of all, they're free.
Now, about those E-savers. Just about every airline plus the major search engines (Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz, Hotwire, etc), will sign you up for its own "E-savers." These are weekly emails that offer you great deals for getaways usually the coming weekend—nothing scares an airline more than a half-empty plane, and they'll fill those remaining seats no matter how slim the profit—though a few deals are of the "Spring sale on now!" variety with a wider window of flying opportunity.
I find that just signing up for Budget Travel Today, Travel Zoo, Smarter Travel, and Frommers.com—plus the E-saver for my own local airline (the one that uses my local airport as a hub)—saves the clutter in my inbox while still getting me the skinny on great deals, both last-minute and coming-up-soon.
The best travel bargain newsletters
Budget Travel Today
(www.budgettravelonline.com) - The sin qua non of travel deals newsletters, and the place where I once spent the bulk of my day working (disclosure: I am a Contributing Editor to the magazine affiliated with this site). This twice-weekly newsletter links to travel articles (both general and from the pages of the magazine) and the daily "Real Deals" blog.
Travel Zoo
(www.travelzoo.com) - Sign up for a weekly email summarizing their "Top 20 Deals." Very straightforward, and quite decent deals—even if they're all actually paid ads by the 180 or so top travel outfits who use this as an outlet for disseminating deals. Hey, the deals are no less genuine.
Smarter Travel
(www.smartertravel.com) - Summarizes lots of deals in many categories and sends out themed emails (seniors, students, deals from your home airport, etc). Loaded with bargains—though BT Today and Travel Zoo often dig up much better ones overall—but cluttered by too many "Sponsored" deals and "member discount" links leading you to preferred vendors.
Frommers
(www.frommers.com) Run by Wiley, the publishers of the Frommer's guidebooks. This deals newsletter is spruced up with additional articles from contributors and material from their guidebooks and links to buy those guides—a couple of which I used to write.
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This material was last updated April 2006. All information was accurate at the time.
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