Stay at a five-star hotel for only RM1 a night? Save RM11,000 on a business class flight? An excited KEE HUA CHEE trawls the Net for super-bargains.

EACH time I read the advertisements of a certain home-grown airline that offers rock-bottom air tickets, I key in only to discover that they have all been sold out! So I always end up being asked to pay a much higher fare than hoped for.

My lamentations reached my Net-savvy friends in faraway London who fed me uplifting tales of ridiculously cheap fares and hotel rates due to human error. They say that FlyerTalk.com, Travelocity, Airfarewatchdog.com and FareAlert.net. are the sites to visit for the best bargains on the Net.

A business class fare of US$33 (RM120) was once quoted on FlyerTalk.com for an Alitalia flight from Toronto to Larnaca, Cyprus.

CheapoAir Upgrades Airline Fare Search Technology

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, CheapoAir.com announced in partnership with Fareportal, a complex Flight Fare Search Technology enabling consumers to search for flights to airports within a 100 mile radius of the original searched airport. This technology will assist in providing lower competitive fares on CheapoAir.com. The user may select the option to search for additional airports within a given radius or may choose to ignore this advanced search option. Fares are usually 5-30% lower when the user selects this advanced search feature while conducting a search for cheap airfares.

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While launching this new technology, Harsh Sood, CTO of Fareportal said "This Technology will now enable users to find lower fares in one simple search without having to specify the closest airport to their original search.