Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:19:16 -0700 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Daniel Edelstein Subject: "Cheaper" Online Airfare Options For Birders Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Hello: While researching online/Web-based airline Web sites recently, I discovered four sources, two of which offered me cheaper fares for my upcoming birding class trip afar than the fare I found dealing directly with my travel agent and/or the airlines: 1. Expedia.com provided me the cheapest fare (30-40% less than the quoted fare from my travel agent and the airlines) 2. Priceline.com (an auction site) 3. Orbitz.com (which was mentioned in the WA Post's Travel section, p. 1, Comings & Goings section, 7/9/00) will soon be another auction site operating independently from any airline backing or control. 4. Hotwire.com will also soon begin operation. It is an airline-funded and coordinated site that will provide tickets at reduced prices for many of the major airlines (see the Post article mentioned in #3 above). Regards, Daniel Edelstein Daniel Edelstein - Designing and writing nature and science media since 1980 - Specializing in writing informative, engaging articles that empower readers to understand and to take action - Please see my writing samples at http://home.earthlink.net/~earthlink - Consulting with publishers, museums, parks, design firms and public age= ncies 14400 Long Channel Circle Germantown, MD 20874-5412 USA (40 miles west of Washington, D.C.) 301.916.1850 (Voice) 301.916.1197 (FAX) ****Do you want to know the date of the next full moon and read about other sky and land seasonal nature "phenology" events? If so, see my "spinning" Earth Web site at http://home.earthlink.net/~edelstein ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================