Are You Serious About an Air Travel Deal to Florida? Read On...

We have compiled a list of tips that we and other travelers follow every time they start their search for airline tickets.

Below is our extensive list of tactics that will ensure you get a great deal on air travel.

Let's not waste time and get right to it...

1. Be flexible. Obviously with a lousy couple weeks vacation a year and having to schedule with work way in advance makes this harder to do, especially if you have children. However, this is probably one of the best tips you'll find around, so do what you can to be flexible. If your dates are set, you can try consolidator tickets for better deals.

2. How about leaving in the middle of the week for your Florida vacation? Not only will you have less traffic in the airports, you'll find cheaper rates if you can negate the weekend flights.

Also, book early for the best Florida travel deal. If you want to sweat it you can wait for a betterdeal, but that is like gambling and the house usually wins.

3. Utilize the technology at the big-time travel websites. You can do multiple searches at once and compare side by side, book multi-city trips, double check the round-trip price, and so forth.

4. Speaking of the big-time travel websites there are quite a few. For flexibility, Orbitz or Travelocity are the best. Hotwire and Sidestep offergreat last minute travel deals, and we always recommend using our favorite site, Trip Advisor to hunt down deals, read reviews, and browse opinions.

5. Try an airport that is less utilized but nearby. Where I live we have 2 major airports and a smaller one within a 75 mile radius. We have literally saved hundreds of dollars by traveling a bit further to a neighboring airport.

Bonus tip: Use your air mile credit card with frequent flier miles or travel deal discount coupons.

If you want a more scientific, multi-step approach to finding the best air travel deal, then take advantage of this strategy:

• Start with the big travel search engines. This works best when you have your Florida beaches destination already chosen or you know what dates you're traveling. The travel sites we have mentioned are nothing alike, so it's worth spending some time on each site scouring the deals. Remember it's fun to plan your Florida vacation!

• After you check the large sites, search the major airlines. Again Jet Blue and Southwest are two that we tend to trust. Think about it this way. Wouldn't you rather go straight to the source, than deal with middlemen? It's not always the case, but worth a shot.

• Next hit up the budget sites like Travelzoo, budget travel, airfarewatchdog, lastminutetravel, etc...
  Many of these have deal alert sign ups so you receive alerts whenever a deal pops up. Google alerts is great for this too. Just type in your keywords and they'll send you alerts when travel deals surface. Check out our Florida tourism travel news section for news and updates as well.

• Finally, you could turn to a travel agent if necessary. It all depends on finding a good one and how poor your search has been to this point. Remember there are peak times to travel so this could be a large factor. Plus, you must be realistic with your budget. However, a travel agent can be an invaluable resource if you are limited on time and/or having trouble online.

All in all that should give you some great, yet simple tips to finding discount airline tickets & an air travel deal.

If you've read this far you simply aren't looking for first class travel. The key is to save as muchmoney as possible so you are able to take advantage of all the excellent things to do in Florida.

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