Air travel is expensive. But I’m not telling you something you don’t already know. There are many ways to save money on air travel - some of them will save you a little, some will save you a lot. Before you book your next trip, see if any of these money savings tips are options for you.

• Consider flying out of another airport. Sometimes the nearest airport does not have the best rates. Checking the rates at one or two of the next nearest airportsmay yield better airfare rates than the airport that is closest to you. It may be worth it to travel an extra hour to the airport to save hundreds of dollars.

• If you have a trip planned for the future, butyou aren’t ready to order your tickets yet, sign up for e-mail alerts from all of the airlines that fly from the airport(s) near you to your destination. You never know when an airline may be running a special to your exact destination.

• If you are ready to order your tickets, order them as far in advance as possible. The cheapest airfares sell out quickly. The closer to the flight you buy your tickets; the more expensive the tickets are likely to be. This is especially true around the holidays.

• If you are booking travel during the holidays, consider flying on the holiday itself. The days prior to a holiday, airfares can be the highest they are all year. If you can fly on the day of the holiday, you can get some of the lowest airfares of the year. If you do decide to book on the holiday, try to book as early in the day as possible in case there are any delays so you don’t miss the holiday festivities once you get to your destination.

• If you are phoning the airline directly for your tickets, ask for the cheapest fare, not just the fare for coach. There may be a cheaper fare in a better seat, but you’ll never know if you don’t ask.

• Fly on the off days. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and sometimes Saturday are considered the off days (unless it’s around a holiday). If you can fly to and from your destination on those days, you are much more likely to get cheaper flights.

• Check out the fares on red-eye flights. Those flights don’t sell out as quickly as other flights and therefore may have less expensive fares. Sure, if money were no object, the red-eye probably wouldn’t be your first choice, but then again you may sleep your way through the whole flight. That’s always a good way to spend a flight. And if you combine flying on the off days with flying a red-eye on an off day, you may get a real deal.

• Do your homework by comparing rates on the different websites. Travelocity, Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz, Cheap Tickets and many other websites have discounted airline tickets as well as discounts on hotels, car rentals, and other things related to travel. Take the time to check out the rates for each website each time you book your travel.

• While you are doing your homework, don’t forget to check out the airline’s websites. Sometimes the airline’s websites have even better deals than the discount sites. All this homework takes some time, but it will pay off in the end with big savings.

• Go outside your comfort zone. You may be used to always flying the same big airline, but if you consider one of the newer smaller airlines, you may be surprised at the savings you can grab.

• Before you book your tickets, make sure that the price you have includes all fees and taxes. If you’re not getting the full price of the tickets including fees and taxes, you may not actually be booking the least expensive airfare.

Now that you’ve saved money on your airfare, there are some things that you can do to help save money in other areas of your flight.

• Find out what the maximum luggage weight is for the airline you are traveling, and make sure you don’t exceed it. If you check in luggage that is over the weight limit, the airline can charge you a fee for each bag that is over the limit.

• If you are driving to the airport, plan to leave early enough so that you can park at one of the off site parking facilities that are close to the airport.

• Ifyou’ve got a college age niece or nephew, next door neighbor or someone in that age range who lives nearby ask them to drive you to and from the airport. You can pay them $25 each way and save a bundle on airport parking, and get door to door service to the airport.

• Take your own snacks. If your airline does serve food, they may charge for it, and chances are it won’t be very good. You also won’t be tempted to pay the high price for the snacks you buy at the concessions after security because you’ll already have what you’ll need on the plane.

• Same goes for your reading materials. Bring your own that you already have at home instead of buying them from the airport stores. A flight is the perfect time to read that book you’ve been meaning to read.

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Having made it my business to look for divine shortcuts, I discovered early on that every bit of human technology is being made for an aid to finally discover that we really don’t need technology at all.

Yes, insanity, at first, but really ingenious, for this revelation is the ultimate shortcut. Insanity is so close to genius, because they need each other.

Can I prove my insane statement, or will you turn the other way and never ‘listen’ again?

It really is up to you, for you, individually, are asked to find God, which is your ONLY purpose on earth.

However, I am able to help.

The breadcrumbs of symbolism and specs of enlightenment are surrounding all of us equally, yet all depends on how we look. Nothing in regards to ‘quantity’ matters, for the supply is unlimited, and sufficient space provided. Quality (to BE), on the other (right-eous) hand, is all that matters.

Had we known that we CAN in fact fly, a matter with which many of us have become acquainted in our dreams, why would we need airplanes and helicopters (oh, well, yes, for the military).

Who ‘transports’ the birds? Does He who transports them ever need move, or isn’t He already everywhere, and the birds move within Him?

Birds are Symbols for finding God within, who would TRANSPORT (Philip) us as well, when we let Him.

This automatically eradicates whole industries, in the ‘food-chain’ below airplanes (cars, petrol, insurance).

As usual, there’s more.

If we know that God is already everywhere and speaks through all of us, do we REALLY need a phone, an Internet, a letter mailing service, etc.?

If our true image is perfect, do we need doctors, medicine, hospitals?

If we can modify in metamorphosis, hidden from sight, ANYTHING & EVERYTHING about ourselves, do we need slimming products, creams and potions, cosmetic surgery, or exercise equipment, hypnosis, predictions, procedures, processes?

By now, you can see, where I am going?

Not yet?

To Armageddon.

The upheaval upon this revelation will be like an earth-quake, for ONLY the play & game, the recreation & enjoyment related industries will thrive, while all others falter.

Judgment day will be everyday, when individuals can no longer hide behind their money as an accomplishment, behind their actions as worthwhile and behind their ’sickness’, ‘old age’, ‘accidents’ & ‘death’ as regular fate.

Armageddon, the spiritually pre-determined destruction, will topple all that is not part of the plot.

Technology will serve for fun and play, but minimized to choice, and not ascribed to necessity.

Our technology is symbolism on the way to acquire God-power, the power of instant manifestation.

Winery? Or water into wine? Work and time? Or instant gratification?

Why delay your gratification?

You can have ALL now, and none of it must have existed prior to your desiring it.

The scriptures tell us that God HATED hairy Esau (supposed permanent reality), who swapped his entire INHERITANCE for a bowl of soup (earthly material existence) and that Abel was murdered.

Who murdered Abel, the able-body that talks every one out of innovative possibility and has all the reasons NOT to do something, while holding on to everything that ALREADY materialized (herding sheep)? Cain - the I CAN guy, the tiller of the ground, or spiritual substance, who God HID and protected 7 times, thus REWARDED for the act. Whom did God LOVE? Jacob, the supplanter, who supplants what supposedly IS with what CAN BE and receives the name (nature) IS REAL (Israel).

Listen, if I say, we can fly, it is already so, for what we think we seek has already found us, before we think it. God runs us perfectly through our inner tuition from the right brain hemisphere. By the time we start thinking interpretative thought, weakened by error (evil) and sin (missing the mark), our body (hologram) has already followed His command.

Sigmund Freud proved many, many years ago that human interpretative thinking is completely SUPERFLUOUS.

Do you believe me now, that applicable wisdom is opposite of human ‘knowledge’?

All that technology is it has become because of humanity’s unawareness of our ONE God running the place and being everything from the fly to the mountain.

Technology means crutches for un-believers, for Jews (those who know God) will soon take advantage of the all paid-for ride of their lives to the point when the remainder of humanity drop their crutches, too.

It is so close, closer than ’soon’, in fact, AT HAND.

Dr. Ina Bliss invites you to THINK AGAIN. http://www.telechurch.org

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USAirways to Add 150 Workers

The fortunes of USAirways continues to improve ever since the company merged with America West and emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2005.

To that end, the airline is expanding its Reno, NV reservations call center by 150 employees adding to the 200 workers already employed at the facility. Most of the new positions had previously been outsourced by the airline; the move is a bid by USAirways to bring its reservation system back in-house.

America West purchased USAirways in 2005, jettisoning its own name in favor of USAirways.

MAF Heads For Idaho

A long time Redlands, California evangelistic organization, the Missionary Aviation Fellowship, will be leaving “the city of churches” for cheaper pastures in Idaho.

Citing the growing expense and burden of maintaining operations in California, the missionary organization will be relocating to Nampa, Idaho in a bid to cut costs. Indeed, missionary leaders have calculated that the organization can save as much as $800,000 in operating costs annually by making the move to Idaho. The organization has purchased nine acres in Nampa and is leasing another nine acres from the city.

Missionary Aviation Fellowship {MAF} operates 56 aircraft in 16 countries with three airplanes currently based in Redlands. The organization is noted for its members sharing their faith in Jesus Christ in word as well as in deed. MAF is presently very active in providing earthquake relief assistance in Pakistan.

Ryanair Socks Bag Fee To Pax

Ryanair, Ireland’s budget airline, is causing quite a bit of controversy with its plan to start charging passengers a check-in fee.

To be implemented in March, the Euro$2.50 fee will be assessed to passengers who bring more than one light bag with them on a flight.

BTW, the airline is hiring pilots, cabin crew, engineers, and sales staff.

Copyright 2006 - Matt Keegan is a blogger and aviation writer for Jet Movements a blog covering airline, aviation, & airport news, views, & rumors.

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