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	<title>Comments on: Searching the Internet 005: Travel Planning (enhanced)</title>
	<link>http://www.qdinformation.com/searching/2006/06/01/searching-the-internet-episode-005-enhanced-aac/</link>
	<description>Practical advice and tips on finding the information you want on the Internet</description>
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		<title>by: Chughes</title>
		<link>http://www.qdinformation.com/searching/2006/06/01/searching-the-internet-episode-005-enhanced-aac/#comment-1949</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>One new site for travelers to consider is cFares (www.cfares.com). It is kind of like Costco and Walmart for savings deals.  People shop at these stores to reap special savings.  cFares offers consumers either option; they can get low prices as a free gold member (like Walmart), or they can opt to pay a nominal annual fee for a platinum membership (like Costco) and reap even greater savings on the lowest airfares --particularly for international travel. 

cFares apparently is the only online travel site to allow access to less expensive wholesale discount prices, traditionally only available through specialty travel agencies that concentrate in discounted consolidator airfares. 
Travelers can pick a specific flight and then set up a persistent search for a fare that they are willing to pay. cFares can do a persistent search that will seek out that fare and can hold it for 24 hours before one chooses to pay. Since air fares typically fluctuate several times during the day, cFares will snag the flight fare on the downturn. Also, unlike other online sites like Priceline, cFares doesn’t sell “blind buys,” where a traveler doesn’t know the flight details until after they have spent the money and bought the ticket.

cFares’ airline partners offer consumers dynamic rebates at the point-of-sale. These one-of-a-kind fare rebates are not available anywhere else in the market.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One new site for travelers to consider is cFares (www.cfares.com). It is kind of like Costco and Walmart for savings deals.  People shop at these stores to reap special savings.  cFares offers consumers either option; they can get low prices as a free gold member (like Walmart), or they can opt to pay a nominal annual fee for a platinum membership (like Costco) and reap even greater savings on the lowest airfares &#8211;particularly for international travel. </p>
<p>cFares apparently is the only online travel site to allow access to less expensive wholesale discount prices, traditionally only available through specialty travel agencies that concentrate in discounted consolidator airfares.<br />
Travelers can pick a specific flight and then set up a persistent search for a fare that they are willing to pay. cFares can do a persistent search that will seek out that fare and can hold it for 24 hours before one chooses to pay. Since air fares typically fluctuate several times during the day, cFares will snag the flight fare on the downturn. Also, unlike other online sites like Priceline, cFares doesn’t sell “blind buys,” where a traveler doesn’t know the flight details until after they have spent the money and bought the ticket.</p>
<p>cFares’ airline partners offer consumers dynamic rebates at the point-of-sale. These one-of-a-kind fare rebates are not available anywhere else in the market.
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		<title>by: Ed Vawter</title>
		<link>http://www.qdinformation.com/searching/2006/06/01/searching-the-internet-episode-005-enhanced-aac/#comment-14</link>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 01:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Chris was too modest to post a &lt;a href="http://amateurtraveler.com/?p=816" rel="nofollow"&gt;link directly to the screencast&lt;/a&gt; episode so I'll do it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris was too modest to post a <a href="http://amateurtraveler.com/?p=816" rel="nofollow">link directly to the screencast</a> episode so I&#8217;ll do it.
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		<title>by: Chris from the Amateur Traveler podcast</title>
		<link>http://www.qdinformation.com/searching/2006/06/01/searching-the-internet-episode-005-enhanced-aac/#comment-13</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>A nice summary of travel sites. I did a screencast of Kayak on one of my video editions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A nice summary of travel sites. I did a screencast of Kayak on one of my video editions.
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