Discount Airfares - The Insider's Guide: How to Save Up to 75% on Airline Tickets [Paperback]

George E. Hobart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1998

This step-by-step manual will show you the simple strategies others are using to save hundreds of dollars on every purchase of airline tickets. This is the most comprehensive book ever written explaining airline ticket prices. This sourcebook contains much more than explanations and examples. It is filled with hundreds of Web site addresses and telephone contact numbers you can immediately begin using to save money. Whether you are a travel agent or simply a budget minded traveler, this book will become your essential reference for airline travel.

Editorial Reviews

Review

" The most complete book available on discount airfares, it presents a multitude of approaches in finding the best deals in many different traveling situations." -- The Port Townsend Leader, Nov.18, 1998

"Along with detailed descriptions ... Hobart also includes phone numbers and Internet addresses for virtually every service in the country people need to have to secure these bargain fares." -- Nisqually Valley News. Nov. 12, 1998

"This is the best guide to saving money on airfares that I've come across. George Hobart's book examines every possible way to economize. He looks at various strategies to purchasing cheap tickets and covers subjects ranging from air couriers to finding bargain fares over the Internet. I wouldn't book another airfare without consulting this thoroughly researched tome." -- Rob Kay- Rob Kay has written about travel for 25 years, is the author of Lonely Planet Guides to Fiji and Tahiti. He is also a past recipient of the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism award.

From the Publisher

Mr. Hobart has taken the recent success of DISCOUNT AIRFARES and now published a Second Edition that has been revised and updated with the latest of the hot Internet Web sites.

This essential travel reference should be in every travelers luggage. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Priceless Pubns; 1st edition (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966572807
• ISBN-13: 978-0966572803
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,379,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding book for the cost conscious air traveller, January 25, 1999

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This review is from: Discount Airfares - The Insider's Guide: How to Save Up to 75% on Airline Tickets (Paperback)

This book was of great value right afterI read it. My wife and I were interested in going to China to visit our daughter at Christmastime. We had been working with a travel agent who came up with a best price round trip ticket costing $840 each. I read this book and was made knowledgable about something called a Consolidator. I told my travel agent to try to do better than the $840 and to look into a consolidator. She did and came back with a r/t price of $580. The only caveatt was that we fly out of Portland vs Seattle. We live in Olympia so the decision was easy for us. Without George E. Hobart's book we would have been happy paying $840, but we were almost twice as happy paying only $580. This book is filled with specific facts and details about how to really save with the airfares. It includes names and 1-800 phone #'s, and all the nitty gritty that the average person would need to save some real money on airfares. I just think it's a wonderful book. Well written and easy to use. If you are serious about saving $$$, and you like to travel, this is one book that can help you every step of the way. I feel fortunate to have it.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful Guide but...!, August 6, 2006

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Elijah Chingosho "Dr Elijah Chingosho" (Nairobi, Kenya) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Discount Airfares : The Insiders' Guide, How to Save Up to 75% on Airline Tickets 2nd Edition (Paperback)

This is a very useful guide for those looking for bargain fares. The book provides a comprehensive look on the available discount fares and provides tips and guidance to those who may wish to benefit from the bargains.

However, a lot has happened since the book was written. There is growth in low cost airlines in most parts of the world. These offer some very low fares which are affordable to those seeking budget fares. In addition, there are several websites that provides the reader with very low fares. Rather than list them here, one can just go to Google or Yahoo and other websites and carry out the search. That is why it is not absolutely necessary to buy this book.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars International Business and this Book, December 27, 1999

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A. Bunnell - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Discount Airfares - The Insider's Guide: How to Save Up to 75% on Airline Tickets (Paperback)

I work out of Nanjing China and have found this book an indispensible tool for business trips, for vacations and for emergency flights.

I have saved a lot of money and travelled to countries such as Indonesia, Macau, Thailand, Taiwan and Japan.

This summer I'm heading for Europe with some frequent fliers I've earned and this book.

Highly recommended