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On Wednesday from midnight to 2 a.m. Airfares are updated about 250,000 times a day, says Peter Greenberg, travel editor for NBC's Today show and author of 'The Travel Detective' (Villard, $16, www.amazon.com). So how do you get the best last-minute deal? Most airlines start their sales on Friday afternoon and compete with one another all weekend. The competition stops on Monday — "but that's not when you call," says Greenberg. "You call at one minute after midnight on Tuesday, meaning Wednesday morning." Why wait? "Because these days, when you book a fare on the phone, you have 24 hours in which to purchase the ticket. So by midnight Tuesday night, all those discount fares booked by people who didn't purchase them come flooding back into the system, and for a brief period of time — between an hour and two hours — you can get those deals." One more thing to remember: Make sure you're calling the minute after midnight on Tuesday in the time zone of the airline's base location, which you can find on its website, usually under "contact information."
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'Good tips.
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Originally posted by RESORT2ME
One of my staff does this and has been quite successful. Although, she is usually exhausted when she comes into work the next day!
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Thanks, that's great advice....
Angela
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
BTW, I'm still keeping track of how many times you annoy me.
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Ah....the witching hour.....where have I heard that before???
"If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed."
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