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----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You listed over a dozen "special fares" of Air Sahara. Are all of them equally applicable to the Goa sector as they presumably are to Sahara's other domestic sectors? Likewise for the special fares of the other big domestic carriers. In general, what are the chances that one can get a bargain fare to/from Goa on domestic carriers or are they like needles in the proverbial haystack?
================================================= Dear Philip Thomas,
I think you are better placed to answer your own questions as you wrote earlier:
I came across a link on air fares including budget fares on a number of sectors connecting Kochi.
Looking for the needle in the haystack is the appropriate analogy. To take the Air Deccan example, the main page quotes Internet fares at Rs 700 but if you key in the date of your intended travel, you are most unlikely to come up trumps. Does the bargain fare quoted refer to a last minute deal, off peak travel, advance booking, etc? Your guess is as good as mine.
With the plethora of budget airlines in the UK, finding the bargain is problem and may not be productive. However help is available. One UK internet site publishes in a spreadsheet, various Ryanair fares to a particular destination over a period of a week or so.
This is done by a computer program which accesses the Ryanair site and queries all available destinations and dates. The results are then keyed into the spreadsheets. This facility proved so popular that Ryanair introduced their own "farefinder" that searches 20 days either side of your earliest and latest travel dates. See: http://www.bookryanair.com/farefinder/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi?language=EN
Cheers,
Eddie Fernandes
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