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Old October 12th, 2003, 11:10 AM
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Default UK - US flight and US internal flights

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 23:02:21 GMT, "BAH"
wrote:

As an internet-travel-booking-novice I would appreciate some suggestions on
how to go about booking both UK - US return flight and internal US flights.

Early December, four of us need to travel to New York, on to Tampa, then
North Carolina and maybe Buffalo before returning via New York after 10 - 14
days.

Is it best doing it all with the same airline? Any carrier recommended? Or
should I let some agent (eg: Airline Network?) take the strain and do it
for me?


Hi

Personally, I would recommend Trailfinders - I have no connection
whatever with them other than as a customer.

To give an example of their "expertise", a few years ago, we booked
the following flights through them - into LAX, then an internal flight
from San Francisco to Albuquerque (we drove up the coast to SF) and
eventually home to the UK from Albuquerque.

We were quoted all sorts of horrendous fares by other companies for
the internal flight from San Francisco to Albuquerque; however with
Trailfinders, the internal flight was FREE - yes, no charge; They
treated the whole itinerary as an open jaw flight into LAX and out of
San Francisco with a free (2 week) stopover in Albuquerque. I pointed
out that the flight back to the UK from San Francisco didn't go
anywhere near Albuquerque, but they just said, "We realize that, but
it is no problem to route you that way - and you can have a free
stopover en route."

I doubt such helpful service could be achieved online and I doubt that
it would be any cheaper.

Incidentally, on that trip I tried to book a hotel in San Francisco
online - contacting the hotel directly by email. They replied that
they had no vacancies for the nights we wanted but if they had, the
cost would have been around £140 per night (converting from $ to £).

Trailfinders got me the same hotel for the same nights at £70 per
night, so they obviously have block bookings and pass the savings on
to the customer.

Regards

KGB

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