Thank Goodness for Thanksgiving Travel Ideas
Thanksgiving is the start to the holiday season. It is also the start to the holiday travel season. Sadly, the travel often aligns with some of the country's worst weather, biggest crowds, stressed out travelers, and high flight prices from airlines hoping to take advantage of needy patrons. While there is not a lot you can do about the weather or crowds, you can avoid being one of those stressed travelers by planning your trip in advance and taking advantage of a few price saving measures.
Try these four hacks to save some money on flights over Thanksgiving.
Fare Alerts. There are several sites that will record your flight plans and send you a text message or email when the fare drop. You can
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By getting fare alerts, you can be altered as soon as the price drops into your range and then grab tickets before the fares rise again. While there is no guarantee that the fares will not go even lower, at lease you can be sure you got the best price at the time.
Compare Sites and Clear Cookies. Different sites have different search algorithms and relationships with the travel industry. The also have different sales markups, fees and restrictions. Searching multiple sites just makes common sense.
When you do search, be sure to clear you browser's cookies. The airlines and travel sites track your visits. If you are frequently searching for a fare, they know you are getting ready to buy (and maybe are even getting desperate) so they will give you slightly higher fares. In the same way, they want new visitors to the site to stay and not go away to another site so they offer their best fares to them.
In order to trick the site into believing you are a first-time visitor, you need to clean out the cookies and clear the cache. You can do this by using a different browser as well. This means you can search once in Safari, another time in Chrome, and a third time in Explorer and get different fares each time. You just might be surprised what you
Spirit makes our fares so low because they know that draws in the attention of the consumer. Once they have your attention you’re shocked at the price so you go for the deal, oblivious to the fact that you walked into their trap. Southwest’s symbol for shareholders is LUV while Spirit’s is SAVE. They are not the only companies to start to enter into these paths. Hotels, rental cars and cruises are all faced with the same choice to embrace the LUV or the thriftiness with SAVE (Elliot
Ticketmaster’s move towards greater transparency helped its standing with customers by informing them up front about the cost of the ticket they wanted to purchase. Previously, customers were eager to purchase the ticket, but they could not realize if they could afford it until the end of the checkout process. Once customers found out the total cost, many became frustrated and cancelled the purchase. The latest transparent approach gives customers a clear standpoint of the ticket price and allows them to determine if they are willing to spend their hard earned money to purchase that ticket.
rates by only ten dollars it can have a lasting effect. When the ticket falls
of price versus service in the airline industry as a whole, as well as, the
Due to the increased use of the internet, it is becoming more and more easier to book online. This allows customers to book flights easier and increase Jet2’s revenue. Revenue is increased through not having to deliver or post tickets out to its customers, in comparison with other non-internet based airlines. It is believed that over 97% of Jet2’s customers book online, which further highlights Jet2’s emphasis on online bookings.
Spirit addresses “price” by attempting to get the lowest possible fair for their potential customers. They have instituted their “unbundling” strategy that essentially removes all the conveniences that other airlines afford. Fees for checked bags, fees for flight changes, and no complementary in-flight beverages are just a few of the cost-trimming techniques employed. This strategy allows Spirit to come up with impossibly low fares. It also conforms to customers who just want to get from point A to point B without paying extra for services they don’t use. This strategy, coupled with an in-your-face “promotion” ploy, has made Spirit Airlines “the most profitable airline in the U.S.” (Nicas, 2012).
Southwest Airlines is competing with "Shuttle by United" head to head in about 9 routes. United has just announced that it is discontinuing its Oakland - Ontario route and hiking the fares in all the 14 routes by $10, which calculated to be 14.5% increase in the fare. Southwest has to respond effectively to these unexpected developments and has to act accordingly while maintaining their current low fare image and increasing their daily operating profits. We have considered the elasticity of the market to be 1.15.
After a company decides on its product(s), it has to think how it will price said product(s). Disney goes about pricing for all of its products in different ways. For instance, Disney’s amusement park tickets are cheaper during times of the year that it is the least busy and the tickets prices rise during sessions that the parks are busiest ("Your Ticket"). However, Disney’s biggest competitor, Universal Studios, goes about things in a very different way. Universal Studios tickets cost the same no matter
Conitue to promote "The Low Fare Airline" slogan especially with the advent of raised ticket prices from Untied.
Many stores across the country are open on Thanksgiving Day, which obviously means people are working that day instead of enjoying the holiday celebrations with their families. According to a study done by Airlines 4 America, an airline industry trade group, 25.3 million people were expected to travel during the days surrounding thanksgiving. This implies many people were attempting to visit friends and family for the holiday season. If people are working long, stressful hours
Avoid “add-on” fees for airline tickets. Flying coach instead of business class, avoiding seat upgrades or preferred seating, and checked baggage fees, using Uber or Lyft instead of taxis to and from the airport can also save the company money (Morris, 2016).
Lower prices draw a larger audience. When tickets are inexpensive and in high-demand, audiences are drawn to that event, thus creating a
Holidays like Thanksgiving mean long lines at the airport, so don’t risk missing your plane. Always get to the airport at least two hours before your flight when you fly during a holiday. Spending two hours at the airport is far less irritating than waiting around for half a day – or longer! – to catch another flight because you missed yours the first time.
There are some airlines that have a 24-hour cancellation line. If you cancel within 24 hours of your flight, then they refund your money. If your airline does this, then watch the price of your flight, and if it goes down, then cancel your first and then buy the cheaper flight.
For most, Thanksgiving is a holiday spent with family and delicious food, but for others, it is a day consisting of tremendous planning in hopes for a major haul of “discounted” items. In the United States, it is safe to say that Black Friday is one of the biggest shopping events each year. In recent years the public's participation in Black Friday has continued to decline, stated by the National Retail Federation. ”Thirty-five percent of consumers who plan to shop during Thanksgiving week say they will do so on Black Friday, down from 51 percent last year and 59 percent the year before, according to consumer markets research from PwC, the professional services giant.” (Bhattarai). I personally have never been