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Whether you're planning a trip to see your family or are looking for a way to avoid them this holiday season, it's time to start planning your travels.
When it comes to booking flights, TravelSense.com, a consumer Web site operated by the American Society of Travel Agents, suggests avoiding peak travel days -- those immediately before and after the actual holidays. Instead, look for flights two days before and after.
For more than airfare, check out Neotravel.com for a variety of current Thanksgiving deals, from $25 per day car rentals and 60% off hotel rates to a Thanksgiving in Paris package including hotel and airfare for $499 per person.
If your idea of a white Christmas is walking on powdery sand, Holland America and Norwegian have 11-day cruises leaving from Manhattan on Dec.
Some fine golf deals await Canadians in Carolina
But just in case, the southeast state is offering a number of value-added deals in its North Carolina Drives Home the Value brochure, valid through the end of December. Geared specifically to visitors from north of the border, offers include a four-for-the-price-of-three promotion at Pinewild Golf Academy, where players receive four hours of instruction with complete digital swing analysis, plus lunch and a round of golf. There's also a seventh night free deal for special golf packages at Longleaf Golf & Country Club or the Pit Golf Links Vacation Villas. To download the brochure, log on to http://www.travelsouthusa.com and click on "Trip Ideas," then "North Carolina." Winter special in Portugal: Woodbridge-based Travel With Flair is offering two weeks on Portugal's sunny Algarve coast, starting at $1,029 per person, including airfare, on Sata Express, 14 nights studio accommodation and round trip transfers.
Make plans - Midwest's great group savings
There's power in numbers, especially when it comes to travel. If you live in or around Kansas City (MCI), get a bunch of friends or family members together and cash in on some demonstrably deep discount airfares - airfares starting as low as $100 round-trip on classy Midwest Airlines. Here's the deal: gather a group of eight or more, but no more than 20. Book soon, and pack your bags. You'll be able to travel through December 19 on these fares. You can't fly on Sunday, and you'll have to ticket within seven days of booking. Neither taxes nor fees are included in these deals. A couple of more important provisos: these discount airfares do not apply to groups that have been previously booked, nor will Midwest Airlines be serving up refunds or adjustments. .
Asian airlines charge world's lowest domestic airfares
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (eTN) -- A study commissioned by Malaysia Airlines has revealed that eight Asian-based airlines, with the exception of Japanese Airlines, charge the lowest fares per mile in the world for domestic flights on full service carriers. Domestic airfares in France comes in at ninth, charging US$1.03 per mile and the UK at tenth lowest, charging $1.05 per mile for European-based carriers in the table of ten lowest fares. US and Canadian carriers, outside of the top ten on the table, charge an average of $2.88 per mile. "Thai carriers charge the cheapest at only 17 cents per mile, followed by Malaysia a close second at 19 cents, with the highest charged by an Asian carrier at 54 cents per mile, by Australian carriers. The study confirms the assertion in the travel industry that Asian carriers offer the best deals for holiday travel when bundled with hotel rooms.
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