Others tell you the
problems, here you'll learn what to do about them.
Honest and direct web site comparisons & travel survival tips: where,
when and how to buy travel. I'm a very frequent traveler and
have flown more than an 1.3 million miles on Northwest Airlines (MillionAir
flyer) and hundreds of thousands of miles on other airlines. I
have no patience for travel web sites that waste your time or insult
your intelligence. My objective: the most useful information
with the fewest mouse clicks.
The "Comparisons"
tab contains advice about which web sites to use for air, hotel & car
reservations.
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July's
newsletter has an extensive tutorial on how and where to book
multi-segment trips (more than one city on a trip). It also
shows the multi-step process of getting seat assignments and how to
improve your seats.
Multi-segment trips
involve flights to more than one destination on the same trip.
Searching the wrong web sites or making all of your flights on the
same airline (or their partners) could cost you a lot more
money, take too much time to research and too much time to travel.
Doing so also
may pose a significant risk because you will not have adequate time or
good options for your "plan B" for contingencies. This is a MUST READ for
business and leisure travelers, even if you rarely fly multi-segment
trips.
Planes are more
crowded and smaller. Where you sit can make a big difference.
Learn my insider's tips about how to get a seat assignment and how to
improve your seat assignment.
"Do
it yourself travel guidebook"
$10.00
(updates free for 2 years):
Read the table of contents and the first chapter free by clicking
HERE and purchase it HERE.
Many travel "how to" books list hundreds or thousands of web sites
and include a sentence or paragraph about each. My guidebook
illustrates over 30 travel web sites and discusses 40 more. That's
all that is necessary for many of the world's travelers! It is
59 pages (8 1/2" x 11"). My philosophy has always been to find
the most useful information with the fewest number of mouse clicks.
In this case, less is more. Experienced and novice travelers
as well as travel agents will find it very helpful. It
is in PDF format and has many screen shots with my annotations.
Putting it all together, the short course for travel within the US:
(specific details and "how to" in the
comparisons section)
Why do people buy? When
they feel confident that they have adequately evaluated their
choices. Southwest has never had the lowest prices in any of
my quarterly tests. However, their pricing is consistently low
and does not have huge peaks and valleys. Customers feel
they don't need to worry about missing a big discount if they buy
from companies that behave this way. Most of the other
airlines have taught the public that it pays to wait for a sale,
otherwise you may pay too much. It's no wonder that Southwest
has the best conversion rate (percentage of shoppers who purchase).
It's all about the conversion rate! Southwest's 14%, Delta
10%, American 9%, Expedia 5%, Orbitz 4% and Travelocity 3%.
Conversion rate source: Nielsen/NetRatings.
