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Travel Budgeting: How to Budget for Your Trip

Traveling doesn’t have to be expensive, stressful, or unpredictable. With the right planning, you can enjoy your dream destination while staying comfortably within your budget. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll learn how to create a smart travel budget, estimate your costs correctly, save money, and make the most of deals on flights, hotels, car rentals, and last-minute flight bookings.Whether you're planning an international adventure or a weekend getaway, mastering travel budgeting allows…

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Flying smarter: 10 money-saving tips for budget travelers

  Airfares in 2024 have been a something of a mixed bag - generally down to/from/within Europe and the United States, but pricier when it comes to Africa and parts of Asia, as well as the Middle East and South America. Regardless, to make the most of your travel budget and leave you more for enjoying destinations once you get there, here are a handful of proven strategies read post  

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Avgeek alert: the various stages of flight

You get on the plane and, while you listen to music, read a book or rest, there are messages that are heard through the loudspeaker. Often these messages have to do with each phase of the flight of the plane that takes you from your holiday or work destination to home (or vice versa). Today we are going to learn about each of these phases a little more in depth and also about which professionals contribute to each one.Read post   

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  • Ed Wetschler June 28, 2010 at 3:24pm
    "A whopping 93 percent of the total 3197 respondents to an eTurboNews poll claim that airlines are under-performing in terms of customer service." Can the airlines, in fact, restore good service (when I was a kid it was great service) without increasing fares?
  • Vincent Russo June 24, 2010 at 4:19pm
    I just joined to let off steam. my favorite cousin just called to say virgin atlantic is going to install great new entertaiment internet system. she's steamed cause her husband was one of the people trapped on that plane in Conneticut. Shouldn't company should be working on getting takeoff and landing right, not this other stuff?
  • Cessy Meacham June 16, 2010 at 11:41pm
    Can anybody give me a feed back using GOL Airlines in Brazil?
  • José Balido June 14, 2010 at 6:46pm
    In the news today: Allergy risk may force airlines to ban peanuts. We must of course prevent passengers with severe allergies from going into anaphylactic shock in midflight, but is there a better solution?
  • Tripatini June 14, 2010 at 5:10pm
    Find out how new search engine InsideTrip.com adds a new dimension to airfare searches, now on our member blogs.
  • David Paul Appell June 12, 2010 at 5:03pm
    Very good point, Charlie. You might want to post this on our Media Only group, too. And kudos to you for everything you do out there.
  • Charlie Leocha June 12, 2010 at 4:49pm
    Greetings Group,
    On Thursday, June 17th, I will be testifying before the Senate Commerce regarding the Continental/United merger. As a consumer, I feel that reducing our network carriers effectively to three carriers is asking for the disappearance of competition. Domestically there will be Delta, United and American with more than 50% of the traffic and internationally, the alliances will control 85% of the traffic. A consumer nightmare and another industry with members "too big to fail."

    I am also working like mad speaking with staffers to mandate that airlines report their fees to central reservation systems at the same time they announce airfares. This way the online systems can figure out a way to allow consumers to compare total air transportation cost. Airfares and beginning to mean less and less with penny airfares already showing up on Spirit.

    Please, all of you writers, take a look at this portion of the FAA reauthorization. We need articles stating that consumers should know the total costs for air travel including airline fees as they do their travel planning, not only at the time of purchase.

    If you want to talk about it, send email to me at leocha@consumertravelalliance.org.

    Thanks for your help.
  • José Balido June 12, 2010 at 3:58pm
    Video surveillance on airplanes: a step too far?

    eTN reported yesterday that "Information received from Lufthansa sources speaks of the development of a new surveillance system in commercial aircraft, developed by Lufthansa Technik, which is part of the Lufthansa Group. The new system will become available on the market in early 2011..."

    How do you feel about having your every move watched and recorded while you're on a plane? Is it a justifiable invasion of privacy in the name of more security? Or is it yet another invasion of privacy with dubious benefits?
  • José Balido June 9, 2010 at 4:07pm
    Ten Things Airport Baggage Handlers Will Not Say: read it and cringe!
  • David Paul Appell June 3, 2010 at 7:46pm
    A Tripatini member is putting out a query in our new "Ask A Travel Expert" feature about best sources for cheapest airfares from New York City to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. If interested in helping out, please reply not on this comment wall but directly to the following link:

    http://www.tripatini.com/forum/topics/cheapest-airfare-from-nyc-to

    Thanks!
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