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| Take a flight! |
I noticed the proliferation of the sites
via online ads that got displayed subsequently on the web pages I normally
open. Suddenly all the ads were about flight booking sites and some of them I
had never even come across before.
I had to check them out because the quest
for the cheap flight tickets
is not a simple one. Then I went ahead and tried some of them and did not come
back impressed. A lot of them were showing crazy routes and long hours for places I wanted to
go and the low prices existed only in the advertisements. They completely
vanished once I tried the site! This is true for some of the more established
sites as well.
And as for new learning after this latest
quest for air tickets, there are a few.
First is related to the credit card. As I was booking the ticket for a family
member I realized that some airlines insist that the card user should be part
of the traveling group. As this was not true in my case, I had to give up the
cheapest air fare I got.
The second learning is that the travel
portals have become very savvy. Once you book a ticket they keep calling you to
purchase additional services like travel insurance, hotel bookings and taxi arrangements etc. from them. In my case they have done it well, they
called only a few times and with relevant products but I wonder if this would
become another area where marketing calls are going to become a norm?
As for the Zen, the quest continues.
