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The New York Times’ article, Beating the Bushes for a Bargain Ticket, breaks down nine tips for finding cheap flight deals in today’s air travel world. A few of them are no-brainers, but heck, there’s a large no-brain market out there.

Here’s the Times’ advice, with my notes after:

1. Book Directly With The Airline
2. Sign Up For Private Price Cuts — Essentially: “Find your favorite airlines and sign up for their newsletter.”
3. Buy One Ticket At A Time — If you’re flying with a partner or your family, it may be worth putting “1″ in the “Number of People Travelling” field.
4. Make Your Computer Do The Work
5. Buy A Package Deal
6. Search For Flights At Alternative Airports
7. Be Flexible — A day or two can make more than a dollar’s worth of difference…
8. Timing Is Everything — Check the fare charts on Kayak.com, Farecompare.com and (my favorite), farecast.com
9. Don’t Wait If You See A Deal

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1. My favorite (cheap) flight-finding web site: Mobissimo
2. New Category: Cheap Flights
3. A new cheap-flight guide
4. How To Fly Cheap (Part 1)
5. When’s the best day to buy cheap tickets?

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