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Market Wire - As Holiday Airfare Prices Fluctuate, Travel On-Line Gets Easier With TicketPlanet.com
TicketPlanet.com, the only airfare consolidator with booking
capability on the Internet, offers unbeatable airfare prices in all
classes of service year-round. TicketPlanet.com searches and books
seats at the lowest national and international airfares in minutes.
“TicketPlanet.com is the only web-site where you can book the lesser
expensive consolidator airfares on-line,” notes TicketPlanet.com
Chairman and Founder, Nick Kontis. “Consumers need to know that they
can book their holiday travel on-line now for the heavily traveled
holiday period, and that they’ll save a bundle.”
TicketPlanet.com specializes in round-trip and multi-stop international
itineraries including around the world tickets and gives consumers
and travel professionals instant access to its huge pool of published
and non-published consolidator airfares on more than 100 major
airlines. Domestic routes can also be booked using the site and fares
may be booked up to a year in advance.
Having a banner year in just its third year of operation,
TicketPlanet.com remains the leading travel site for airfare and
travel information.
“You can get travel reports from real time travelers who have just
visited a certain country or region of the world. Travel authors
such as Joe Cummings from Lonely Planet and real Ticketplanet.com
travelers are submitting stories to help travelers keep current on
their next destination,” said Nick Kontis.
Some examples of current TicketPlanet.com deals include: Around The World New
York - Paris - Deli - Bangkok / Land / Malaysia - Beijing or Hong
Kong - New York for $1,195.
Boston - Bali - Bangkok - Nepal - Europe - Boston for $1,497.
Houston - London - Johannesburg - Malaysia / Land / Singapore or
Bangkok - Bali or Hong Kong - Houston for $1,699.
Baltimore - Reykjavic - Stockholm - Bangkok - Hong Kong - Baltimore for
$1,499.
Washington - London - Johannesburg - Kuala Lumpur - Beijing -
Washington for $1,595.
San Francisco - Paris / Athens or Istanbul - Delhi - Kathmandu -
Bangkok - Hong Kong - San Francisco for $1,653.
Business Class
Most business class round-trips within the United States are
$1,798 r/t, including:
New York - San Francisco
Seattle - Boston
Atlanta - New York
Chicago -
Los Angeles in Business Class
Most business class from the US to Europe
are $2,500 r/t, including:
San Francisco - Paris
Los Angeles - London
Chicago - Athens
New York -
Milan
Washington - Frankfurt
Visitors to the site click on their departure and arrival cities and
receive instant airfare quotes and real-time availability checks. The
new TicketPlanet.com reservation system is the only engine on the
Internet that interfaces with the major reservation systems (Apollo,
Amadeus and Sabre) so if one system is unavailable, the
TicketPlanet.com simply continues to search uninterrupted using the
others.
“Our new reservation system is the only engine that polls and delivers
both consolidator and published fares for air travel — in seconds”
said Nick Kontis, Chairman and Founder of TicketPlanet.com. “Our
fares are substantially cheaper than the discount published fares
airlines sell through other air booking websites.”
The company website, www.TicketPlanet.com, also provides authoritative
resource material and tools through links to special partner websites
such as the Lonely Planet travelogues, the Sabre “Virtually There”
system which provides real-time access to one’s travel itinerary and
details, plus the U.S. State Department website which posts official
advisories on local political and health conditions, and Yahoo’s
worldwide listing of embassies and consulates. Users also have
access to an international currency converter, a universal clock, and
an online source for obtaining customized maps and driving
directions.
Visitors may also want to link to DiverPlanet.com, the hot dive,
adventure division of TicketPlanet.com, offering the latest, great
dive vacation and adventure vacation deals around the world.
Atrip can also be researched and booked by calling TicketPlanet’s San
Francisco-based reservation and service center (1-800-799-8888) which
is staffed by 30 multi-lingual travel consultants and specialists who
themselves are seasoned world travelers. is the travel planner of
choice for such organizations as The Peace Corps, Greenpeace, Doctors
Without Borders, and The Sierra Club as well as for travel agents
around the world. Travel expert Arthur Frommer and the “Lonely
Planet” and “Moon” guides have also recommended the site.
Ticketplanet.com was created in 1997 by a team of travel experts who
recognized that travelers increasingly want to create their own
itineraries. This “self-directed” segment of the travel industry is
now one of the fastest-growing areas of the market.
TicketPlanet.com
59 Grant Avenue, Level 3
San Francisco, CA 94108
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