WASHINGTON 鈥� If you鈥檙e looking for a last-minute way to get away with the bit of summer that’s left, CBS 草莓传媒 Travel Editor Peter Greenberg says your time has come.
With many kids getting back to school before Labor Day rather than afterward, he tells 草莓传媒, airfares are coming down seriously, beginning this weekend.
鈥淵ou鈥檒l start seeing airfares coming down … all across the board, anywhere in the United States,鈥� he says. 鈥淐heck the websites to see those fare deals come in.鈥�
He says that once the discounts hit, 鈥渢he numbers are pretty drastic,鈥� even more so in Europe, where the recent 30 percent drop in the euro has made travel to 19 euro countries more affordable than ever.
What鈥檚 happening, he says, is that thanks to the drop in euro, 鈥渇or the first time, Europeans can鈥檛 afford to come here.鈥� So the flights that can take you to the continent 鈥� which are usually ferrying Europeans back home from U.S. trips 鈥� have lots of empty seats.
Greenberg adds that while it’s a great time to check the travel websites, that doesn鈥檛 mean you should buy your tickets there.
鈥淵ou research online, and then [book] the old-fashioned way: Pick up the phone and talk to a human being.
鈥淭he biggest myth out there is that all the available inventory is on the web; it鈥檚 not.鈥�
Only about 51 percent of the available travel 鈥� 鈥渨hat the travel providers choose to put on the web鈥� 鈥� shows up. So the time you spend on hold will be well worth it.
