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Travel journalist and blog entrepreneur George Hobica bumps his cheap flight report up a notch. A new domain, improved interface, and easier way to find discount air fares going where you want to go. This guy and the people helping him scour the web each day looking for fares the airlines don’t advertise. It’s great stuff.

On the new site he adds features like “Today’s Top 30 fares” — which is cool, but is it worth the effort? Most people looking for fares will search by destination, and then look for deals there.

Not to knock the man or anything … part of the reason I like what he does so much is his attitude behind it. Check out the last paragraph of his recent blog post about a newsletter he’s writing for Frommers. He says, “We often refer you to links and airlines that make absolutely zero for us (because we don’t have a financial relationship with that airline) simply because that’s the best value on a given route. We’d much rather gain your trust than [your money].” That’s awesome — and a definite contrast to someone like Tom Parsons.

Hey, been away for a while … here’s a roundup of some recent off-kilter airline news, enjoy.

• British teen launches cheap-flight airline from bedroom (thanks, Jon)
• Drunken airline pilots sentenced to prison (thanks, Christopher)
• 10 unforgettable in-flight fights
• USA Today analyzes wait times at major U.S. airports

USA Today has a useful air travel web application on their site. I love news sites that realize there’s more to news than stories: there are web applications, like this one, that improve peoples lives.

» Check out the airport delay updater

Christopher Elliott knows a lot about travelling. He’s got connections in the biz. He was an ombudsman for National Geographic, and he’s covered business travel as a journalism for more than a decade.

On the internet he helps solve travel problems. He’s got a column about travel problems. These problems make for an entertaining read, and usually they have a happy ending, which is cool.

This is my favorite, a tale about a ski trip gone wrong.

Here are some flight and travel sites that are useful and informative, but now worth writing entire entries about. Enjoy!

Today, Flight Club got a traffic spike. Hundreds on hundreds of people decided to start searching for blogs about cheap flights and low air fares. Why today? You tell me. Yes, we do have information about that (links to discounts on flights). Yes, we do have other cool travel resources (like the main site, Flight Club.)

I still ask you: Why today? Answer: The Today Show mentioned flight blogs this morning (link).

Find all the Flight Blog posts about finding cheap airfare here: Cheap Flights.

Back in 2003 CNN published this piece: Travel talk: Online and dangerous.

Be Your Own Travel Agent
To see the same information that regular travel agent can access, fire up your browser and check out these web sites: travelocity, orbitz, expedia, and there’s probably new ones since this draft. TFI’s website is (though I always work over the phone since they are so professional): http://www.lowestairprice.com/.
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There are a number of inexpensive ways to make use of the airline industry. The truth they don’t want you to know is that anyone with time and determination can find rock-bottom prices to any destination in the world.