| More and more travelers are looking for wholesale | | | | also offer some of the tickets to the general public. |
| airline tickets in a bid to find very cheap air travel. | | | | with only a small mark up on the price you are |
| With travel costs increasing on a daily basis, it is | | | | effectively only being charged the price of wholesale |
| becoming more difficult to find a reasonably priced | | | | airline tickets. |
| fare but there are ways of reducing the cost if you | | | | The problem is, of course, you will find that if you |
| know where to look and buying wholesale airline | | | | wait for the flights to be advertised in the national |
| tickets are just one way of achieving this. | | | | newspapers your bargain airline tickets will be sold |
| The best place to look for wholesale airline tickets | | | | out before you get the chance to buy them. The |
| are with companies called Travel Consolidators, | | | | trick is to phone the Consolidator who normally |
| sometimes referred to as Bucket Shops. You will | | | | offers tickets to your desired destination on the |
| quite often find them advertising in newspapers | | | | Thursday or Friday and try to obtain them before |
| offering large discounts for flights to destinations all | | | | they are advertised in the newspaper. That way you |
| over the world. Travel Consolidators operate by | | | | should get your wholesale airline tickets at massively |
| buying up large blocks of seats from the airline | | | | discounted rates. |
| companies. Because the airlines are happy at selling | | | | Consolidators are excellent for last minute deals |
| such a large amount of tickets and making some | | | | because they will often sell any surplus tickets for |
| profit they are more than happy to sell them | | | | less than the cost of buying wholesale airline tickets |
| wholesale at massively reduced prices, sometimes at | | | | just to try to get their money back for any seats |
| a discount of 90%. | | | | that have not been sold. However, you are taking a |
| Travel Consolidators will then do two things. They will | | | | risk because most tickets are snapped up quite |
| sell them wholesale to the travel agents but they will | | | | quickly. |