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Old Nov 16th, 2005 | 07:14 AM
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Finding Sale Packages from Your Home Airport?

Hi, everyone, I'm looking for a website in which I can plug in my home airport and have it tell me all the great specials and packages that are available for me to fly out of. Does anyone know of sites like this? I am tired of going to Travel Zoo etc and seeing all these great deals, but I can't see which ones are actually available from my home airport. I think Site59 does this, but I'm looking for others. Thanks for any help you can provide! BTW, my home airport is Tampa, so it's not as though it's a tiny airport.
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Old Nov 16th, 2005 | 07:16 AM
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I forgot to say, I don't want to specify where my destination is. I want to be able to say, if I fly from Tampa, what great specials are out there all around the US & the world?

I may be asking for too much!
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Old Nov 16th, 2005 | 07:36 AM
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SmarterTravel.com allows you to receive all the specials from a particular airport. I fly out of GSO typically and it is a very expensive airport, so I subscribe to RDU,CLT and GSO.
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Old Nov 16th, 2005 | 07:56 AM
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Airfare Watchdog does what you're asking for U.S. and international flights. You can also subscribe to their newsletter, see:

http://airfarewatchdog.com/tampa/
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Old Nov 17th, 2005 | 07:06 PM
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Thanks, I signed up with both the websites you recommended. I appreciate it. If anyone has any more, please post!
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Old Nov 18th, 2005 | 07:54 AM
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I'm sure I saw a website where you go to "deals" then type in your home airport, but can't recall which one. As I normally go only to the major ones, it may be Expedia (or Orbitz, or Travelocity?)
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Old Nov 18th, 2005 | 08:22 AM
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My best-spur-of-the-moment deals have been from Travelocity. You can plug in several (up to 5, I believe) destinations, and they'll email you when there's a fare change.

I've seen several comparisons. And they all say there is no one best-site to catch the lowest fares all the time.

The best single piece of advice is probably that when you see a good, or great, fare, take it! To delay, even an hour, runs the risk of losing it.
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Old Nov 18th, 2005 | 08:26 AM
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Oopss... these were LAST-MINUTE deals on Expedia...
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Old Nov 18th, 2005 | 08:42 AM
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Also, it never hurts to check with a local travel agent...
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Old Nov 18th, 2005 | 10:40 AM
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travelocity has dream maps where you plug in your starting airport, give them your airfare budget, pick an area of the world and it shows you fares, but doesn't discriminate for "deals".

travelocity.com/dreammaps
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