The Travel Professor
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Saturday, August 2, 2008

Make your holiday and winter air travel today

U.S. airlines continue to report downsizing of schedules and reductions of markets served.

How does this impact the vacation/leisure traveler or frequent flyer mileage traveler?

Less seats for sale in places that you want to fly to! This reduced seat inventory also means higher ticket prices. The chances are the longer you wait the more expensive your flights will be or they may be SOLD OUT.



This really hits home for the frequent flyer planning on redeeming their miles for free travel. Sorry folks but these free seats are very limited or even non existent.

Someone inquired the other day about a Hawaiian cruise in February. They just needed the cruise portion as they had free frequent flyer tickets. "Good luck and call me after you get your air booked" was my advice.

If you haven’t thought about it let me remind you that Thanksgiving & Christmas are only 4 moths away plus the peak winter travel season to warmer climates starts around the New Year.

Airlines generally will take reservations around 330 days into the future so book your holiday and/or winter air travel flights now!