Airfare Secrets Exposed: How to Find the Lowest Fares Available Anywhere! [Paperback]

Matthew Wunder (Author), Carey Christensen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2000

Save hundreds of dollars when you fly domestically or internationally, for business or pleasure! Save 20-50% by using consolidators and bucket shops (nationwide list included). Learn which day of the week airlines post discount fares. Also learn all about: flying as a courier, Air Passes, Airfare Havens, Ticket Auctions, Status Fares, Charters, Internet shopping, and more! One entire chapter dedicated to Tips, Tricks, and Secrets the airlines don't want you to know. Nine appendices full of helpful information.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Next time you fly, take an informal poll of the people sitting around you and you'll find everyone's paying a different fare. Those who plunked down the most will burn with shame and/or hostility--no one wants to pay through the nose for the same uncomfortable seat you paid less for--while whoever paid the lowest will beam with a victor's triumph, winner of the airfare game. It's not a way to make friends--only one fare wins--but it's instructive to learn how many different fares are available for the exact same flight seats.

Flying is now part of life, but high fares don't have to be. Matt Wunder and Joel Leach explain all the tricks of the trade when it comes to saving money on airfares. With comprehensive information on air couriers and consolidators, European AirPasses, buying tickets in "Airfare Havens," using "hidden city" destinations, and finding promotional fares, the airfare portion of your future trip budget can be significantly reduced. This plus the useful chapters on Internet travel sites and the appendices on passport and visa requirements, immunizations, fees, embassies, airline codes, and all airline phone numbers make Airfare Secrets Exposed a great value for anyone who flies. --Stephanie Gold --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal

This book is the new incarnation of Wunder and Sharon Tyler's Airfare Secrets Exposed (Universal Information Corp., 1994). Wunder, a school administrator who has lectured extensively on discount travel, and Leach, a college professor and licensed travel agent who has toured with groups on four continents, have together updated the information about air courier companies, consolidators, air passes, charters, frequent-flyer programs, and other airfare deals covered in the earlier book. Chapters on travel information on the Internet and compensation for being bumped have been added. The appendixes contain further travel resources, foreign entry requirements, airline and airport codes, airline toll-free numbers, and other commonsense travel tips. Libraries that already own the first edition may wish to get the updated information here, but much of it is available on the Internet. Not a necessary purchase.?Ravi Shenoy, Hinsdale P.L., IL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 189 pages
• Publisher: Studio 4 Productions; 3rd Rev edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882349180
• ISBN-13: 978-1882349180
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,154,055 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #100 in Books > Travel > Reference & Tips > Tips

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing new, July 30, 2006

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Andrew Lerra "Against deceptive reviews" (Alachua, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Airfare Secrets Exposed: How to Find the Lowest Fares Available Anywhere! (Paperback)

I must agree with Elizabeth; there is nothing in this book that a casual search on the internet couldn't find. As for the other two who gave the book a five star rating, they (for some strange $reason$) give five stars to everything they review.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time, July 14, 2001

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Elizabeth Nile (Deerfield Beach, Florida United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Airfare Secrets Exposed: How to Find the Lowest Fares Available Anywhere! (Paperback)

Nothing you wouldn't find out on your own by looking around the web.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good information for a new traveler, January 6, 2008

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Seafood Guru (Seattle, Wa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Airfare Secrets Exposed: How to Find the Lowest Fares Available Anywhere! (Paperback)

The information in the book is helpful if you have not traveled much. Otherwise, most of the information is "old news" to the serious traveler.

I read the book in less than an hour, and did not feel that I learned any
new "secrets" as the title suggests. The title is all hype.