A lot of travel companies thought
buying air fare on the Internet was a fad not more than 10 years ago.
Not exact matches
Get up to 50 % in discounts on comparison tickets once a year whenever you
buy the eligible
Air Canada Business Class
fares.
On first glance, then, it doesn't appear that the generic miles
buy as much
air fare; but if you've done the tier climb a few times, unable to redeem your miles and having had to shell out cash for a ticket anyway, that flat penny - per - point formula may start to look more attractive.
Executive Club is moving closer to the revenue - based model recently adopted by United Airlines and Delta
Air Lines, offering more miles to customers who purchase expensive
fares and fewer miles to those who
buy cheap
fares.
They also sell
air plus hotel packages that usually cost less than
buying separately and they sometimes have
fares that are much lower than the same flights and dates sold directly by the airline sites (I recently saw
fares on Priceline to South Africa on Dutch airline KLM that were hundreds less than if
bought on KLM.com and
fares on Delta to Italy that were much cheaper on Expedia than on Delta.com).