Thanksgiving Research Paper

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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 …show more content…

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

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