The truly “extraordinary” airfare deal has become much more elusive in the past couple years – the Airlines are getting smarter, their evil computers track our travel habits and use the data against us, cutting flights, raising prices; It’s done wonders for their bottom line – but it sucks for the budget traveler! Don’t get me wrong, the extraordinary deal is still out there, buried deep in some airline’s database…

Over the last couple years I’ve spent many late nights trolling for cheap airfares online and through this process have refined my search techniques, making sure that I always get the cheapest airfare available. To get a great fare online you need to keep two things in mind:

Back in the mid 90′s my friend Rob was running an export business in Thailand, he also had a pretty young Thai girlfriend so needless to say Rob needed to fly to Thailand – ALOT! He didn’t have much money back in those days so Inevitably Rob discovered what was the best deal in budget travel at the time – Courier Flights.