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These days, travel is expensive, and costs are rising fast enough to make your head spin. But that doesn’t mean you have to give up on your dream vacation-you just have to get smarter. Enlist the help of these tools and resources, and you’re sure to score a flight at a reasonable cost.

Tools

Put these tools to work to stay on top of fare deals, predictions and more.

1. FareChase Alert: Use this widget to stay on top of the latest deals for your favorite cities.
2. Trip Watcher: Use Hotwire’s tool to get constant consideration of travel choices.
3. ITA Trip Planner: Try this site’s planner to get great information on cheap flights.
4. Fare Aware: With this tool, you can find out average prices for your flight, so you’ll know a good deal when you see it.
5. FlightChecker: Use the FlightChecker to find out when you should fly to get the best deals.
6. Flycheapo: Find low-cost flying stats, news, great routes, and more on this cheap flight site.
7. AirDig: Get this “ultimate airfare search tool” to find flights, take notes, and save your favorites for comparison later.
8. TripSync: Use this mobile booking site to enjoy lots of features and integration.
9. Yapta: Stay on top of fare fluctuations to get credits or cash back when your fare’s price drops.
10. FlyerTalk: Check out these forums to learn how other travelers save money, especially frequent flyers.
11. Airfare Watchdog: This tool will alert you when your selected airfares are low.
12. TripStarter: This tool will tell you when to travel so that you’ll get the most out of your flight money.
13. ExpertFlyer: Check out ExpertFlyer to get real-time seat maps for more than 100 carriers, so you can find the flight with the best seat for your cash.
14. Mile Maven: Find the best limited-time deals for frequent flyer bonus miles.

Websites

These booking sites, aggregators, and other resources offer a great way to spot deals for the flight you need.

1. Kayak: On Kayak, you can search more than 140 travel sites at once, then compare them side by side.
2. SideStep: SideStep offers an easy way to search more than 200 sites, plus use helpful tools like their airport guides.
3. Farecast: Use Farecast to do a smart travel search that warns you when fares are expected to rise.
4. Tripology: Fill out Tripology’s questionnaire, and you’ll be matched with a travel agent who can find your perfect flight.
5. Mobissimo: Search airfares, find deals that other travelers have used, and get travel information on this site.
6. TravelZoo: Sign up for TravelZoo’s Top 20 Travel emails to find some impressive deals.
7. Fly Cheap Abroad: This site promises to find cheap tickets for international travel.
8. Priceline: Take advantage of Priceline’s travel search, or get even better discounts by using their “name your own price” option.
9. BootsnAll: Find cheap flights and so much more on this independent traveler network.
10. Travelocity: Book your flight with Travelocity, and you’ll be able to find last minute packages, information, and flight status.
11. Skyscanner: Check out Skyscanner’s suggestions, or just search for incredibly flexible travel times.
12. Orbitz: Check out featured deals, create a package, and more with Orbitz.
13. CheapoAir: On this site, you’ll find super-cheap flights, reviews, and more.
14. Momondo: Search more than 400 travel sites in the blink of an eye with this web 2.0 travel site.
15. Expedia: Get a great fare and earn rewards at the same time using Expedia.
16. dohop: This site makes it easy to find the cheapest, fastest route to your destination.
17. CheapTickets: Check out the CheapTickets “Cheap of the Week,” organize your trips, and more on CheapTickets.
18. Hotwire: On Hotwire, you’ll find money-saving airfares and useful tools.
19. FareChase: On Yahoo!’s travel search engine, you can find great deals.

Articles

Follow the strategies outlined in these articles to get the best deal possible.

1. How to Get the Cheapest Flight Every Single Time: This article has helpful recommendations for websites and booking strategies.
2. Finding the best flight fares: Find out what Pauline Frommer has to say about finding cheap flights.
3. How to score a cheap airline ticket: Read this article to find out how you can save money on fares beyond discount airlines.
4. A Peek at Peak Travel: Get the lowdown on busy, expensive days to fly.
5. An Insider’s Guide to Cheap Airfares: This article offers a few insider guidelines that you should follow.
6. Tips for Finding Cheap Airfare: This article offers ten easy tips for scoring a cheap flight.
7. How to buy cheap airline tickets: This article offers tips and suggestions for lots of fare-finding tools.
8. Best Sites for Cheap Flights: Tips for Finding the Lowest Airfare: Check out this article for tips, website suggestions, and more.
9. SoYouWanna Find a Cheap Plane Ticket?: This guide offers a step-by-step tutorial for finding a cheap flight.
10. How to Find Cheap Airfare: Check out this fun video to get some cheap flight tips.
11. How to Buy Cheap Plane Tickets: Follow these rules to avoid overpaying for your flight.
12. How to Fly as a Courier: This article offers great tips for getting a deeply discounted fare by flying as a courier.
13. Refunds: Who’s the Best When You’re Due a Refund: Find out about airlines’ affordability when you’re in a bind.
14. Cheap Plane Tickets — Why You’re Not Finding Them: Check out these slick tricks to get the best flight for your money.
15. We Love to Fly and It Shows: Inside the World of Mileage Running: In this article from Wired, you’ll learn great strategies for accumulating frequent flyer miles.
16. How to Book a Cheap Flight: Use this article’s advice to avoid overpaying on your flight.
17. Do Cheap Flights Still Exist?: This article describes the rising cost of travel, and offers some tips for making it more affordable.

A Netbook has several advantages for anyone who spends a lot of time at conferences and events: they’re featherweight (usually around 2.5 pounds); most cost between $350 and $500; and with some models you can get a pretty decent battery life.

Of course, the disadvantages are considerable: Netbooks’ small screens can accommodate only one window at a time and may fatigue your eyes; their performance is really only enough for surfing the Web and typing documents; and they don’t incorporate optical disc drives, which some users still require. Plus–and this may be a deal-breaker for many writers–the tiny laptops require petite keyboards and some nonstandard key placement that may make typing difficult, if not infuriating.

Those disadvantages make Netbooks best for use as a secondary laptop for e-mail, Web, and light office work while away from your main computer. If you’ve already got a primary computer and just want something scaled back for taking notes at meetings, check out three of my favorites: the Dell Inspiron Mini 9, the MSI Wind U100, and the Asus Eee PC 901.

What if you want a laptop that’s both travel-friendly and reasonable to use as a primary system? That’s where an ultraportable laptop comes in. These systems are generally lightweight (usually 3.5 pounds or less); have the feature set of a full laptop (e.g., PC Card slots, memory card readers, and such security features as fingerprint readers or Trusted Platform Modules); offer stronger performance than Netbooks; and often have a four- to six-hour battery life.

Even ultraportables are not without their flaws–most notably, their high price tags, which generally start around the $1,800 mark. That amount of money still doesn’t guarantee you’ll get a built-in optical drive (though many systems do include one), and a screen that’s smaller than 13 inches may still prove too small to conduct a full day’s work. So if you do decide to go with an ultraportable, consider adding additional drives or an external monitor to make things more comfortable when you’re at your home base.

My picks for writerly ultraportables begin with one of the most comfortable laptop keyboards out there, which can be found on both the 12-inch Lenovo ThinkPad X200 and the 13-inch ThinkPad X301. The X200 sacrifices the optical drive but offers a lower starting price, while the X301 incorporates all the latest bells and whistles and is priced accordingly. Other picks: the Fujitsu LifeBook P8020 (a recent component refresh of the LifeBook P8010 we reviewed earlier this year) and, for those who want a full-featured laptop in a Netbook-like package, the Sony VAIO TT190.

You may have noticed that the list thus far doesn’t include any Apple products. That’s because I think the company has left some Mac fans in a tough spot: they have to either drop a huge chunk of change on the sublimely elegant but ultimately under-featured (for the price) MacBook Air or schlep around the 4.5-pound MacBook, which despite being lighter than its predecessor is still too heavy for frequent travel. I do like the MacBook, though, and would recommend it to writers whose work rarely takes them beyond the coffee shop down the street.

Tripology as a matchmaking service for “travel specialists” and consumers looking for travel advice. They have filled 50,000 travel requests to-date and have 9,000 travel specialists in the system. As with most marketplaces, the key is getting the demand, the supply is easy.

Their focus is on the long tail and complex tasks, not your basic trip from point a to b. Based on Tripology’s matching criteria, it’s almost like having a travel agent who knows exactly where you want to go just down the block from you like back in the old days.

Here’s how the service works:

• Customer comes to Tripology and fills in a form with their needs
• Tripology runs their query through their system and finds the top 100 matching travel specialists
• Three travel specialists select the query, and pay Tripology $5 to “accept” the query
• The travel specialists then work directly with the customer and they handle the bookings (Tripology is basically out of the game at this point)

Their current marketing plan focuses mainly on SEO and SEM. They selected NYC for their HQ because this is where the travel industry is.

Gainesville Regional Airport is minutes away from the University of Florida and provides a close, convenient and competitively priced “gateway” to the Heart of Florida.

If you are looking to check the status of a flight, please visit this link:

http://www.gra-gnv.com/flight_information/flight_status.php

Gainesville Regional Airport (GNV) serves North Central Florida and the Heart of Florida through all facets of aviation: commercial aviation, general aviation, military, and air cargo.

Gainesville Regional Airport is minutes away from the University of Florida and provides a close, convenient and competitively priced “gateway” to the Heart of Florida.

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> 5 hours - 24 hours and Daily Rate per Day thereafter $9.00