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This holiday season, competition between airlines will dictate the going rate of your flight ticket. Travel columnist Tom Belden recently discussed how one Philadelphia-Boston business traveler was shocked to see US Airways offering a basic round-trip coach ticket costing ,115 for the 281-mile route, even if he purchased two months in advance! To find a better way, this passenger considered driving or taking the train from Philly to Newark, New Jersey, where he could hop aboard a 0 US Airways flight to Boston, which ironically connected through Philadelphia. “Think about the irony,” Belden writes. “The travelers on US Airways could wind up on the Philadelphia-Boston leg of the trip sitting next to someone who got on in Philadelphia and paid five times as much.” Since Delta pulled its Philadelphia-Boston route in August, there is no competition among carriers, Belden argues. To sort through this madness, many holiday travelers will visit www.farecompare.com, a website full of researched flight deals.

FareCompare is a new website geared toward helping you find the best flight deal, and each day processes feeds from over 500 airlines and more than 270,000 city pairs worldwide. You’ll even see fares from carriers like Jet Blue or Southwest, which typically don’t share their deals with aggregator websites. Their high-tech software delivers fast results for an enjoyable shopping experience. On this website, you can find cut-rate tickets for domestic and international travel, discounted first class flight ticket deals and expert insider travel advice. In addition to finding great deals on flights, you will also find up-to-date information on cheap hotel rooms too.

One of the popular features of www.farecompare.com is the automated flight ticket “Deal Alerts.” You can receive deal alerts by email at www.farecompare.com/signup or you can receive Twitter updates linked to your airport at www.farecompare.com/twitter. The FareCompare Twitter page currently indexes cheap airline deals from more than 100 airports in the US and Canada. If you’d prefer not to sign up for anything, you can also use the site’s “One-Click To Savings” travel calendar, which shows you the best prices on a particular route based on which days you travel.

FareCompare understands that many a traveler has been burned on a flight ticket purchase in the past. Conventional wisdom seems to say that planning and purchasing ahead will save you big bucks. However, last year, procrastinators saw record-low prices on their travel due to oil prices dropping from 5/barrel in early July to /barrel in early November, not to mention the recession left fewer travelers than expected. FareCompare founder Rick Seaney doesn’t expect this rare confluence of events to occur this year. Oil prices are always a wildcard, of course, but so far it seems like cheap flight ticket deals are in abundance.

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