Elizabeth Sanberg’s ebook How to find cheap airline tickets is a great resource for the budget-conscious traveller. The tips the author outlines are clear and insightful, and offer a straightforward way to find the cheapest tickets available.
The author points out that there are a variety of off-the-wall ways to find cheaper air travel, or to get upgrades or other perks. But many travellers don’t want to sign up for hundreds of credit cards to get air points, they just want to find and book cheap tickets in a fairly traditional manner. This book caters to those people.
Sanberg introduces the reader to her tried-and-true method of finding cheap air tickets, a simple process which she makes even simpler by providing a couple of worksheets to follow. She rounds up the most useful websites to visit, and suggests several strategies for using these websites to their full potential.
She also recognises that when booking tickets, travellers may have varying degrees of flexibility. She presents different strategies to follow depending on how flexible you are about when and where you want to travel, as some websites are best used for fixed dates and destinations, where others allow you to search a wider range.
The advice is clear and easy to follow, but sadly the format of the book leaves a fair bit to be desired. For me, the design of a book is almost as important as the content, since the presentation of information greatly affects how you view what you’re reading. In How to find cheap airline tickets, style choices detract from the valuable information – it looks like the text has just been imported from a Word document and converted to pdf. In addition, one page of the book is landscape while the others are portrait-oriented, and there’s a lot of white space.
However, the relaxed writing style and useful graphics mean that this is a useful, easy-to-read resource for anyone who wants some straightforward tips about hos to find cheap air tickets. I recommend it for people who want an easy solution for managing and understanding the many booking websites, and for those who just want to save money on booking air tickets.
How to find cheap airline tickets, 2009, was supplied for review by the author. It is available online for US$19.95.
Written by: Craig and Linda
Posted on: Monday, June 8th, 2009
Posted in: Articles, Books, Review
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