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Top Tools
Flight schedules
SmarterTravel.com has a schedule display and a reasonably convenient system for exploring alternate airports.
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Compare fares and rates
Booking Buddy allows travelers to search and compare airfares and hotel rates more quickly. Enter your travel itinerary once and find the lowest price from multiple providers.
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Info on airline seating
SeatGuru has interactive seat maps of individual airplane types, overall seating dimensions, and highlights of seats that are especially roomy and those to avoid.
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High-speed Internet
JiWire provides worldwide listings of wireless “hot spots” in public areas, hotels, airports, and cafes. Wi-Fi ZONE provides a similar capability, with a really efficient search engine.
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Airports in a strange city
Check the airport's website. You'll find URLs at Airline and Airport Links.
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Guidebooks for the unknown
For coverage just about anywhere in the world, start with the Fodor’s series, especially its Gold Guides.
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More Tools
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Seating
These sites offer more seat measurements and comparisons:
Skytrax: www.airlinequality.com
Simply Quick: www.simplyquick.com
Frequent Flier
Several sites are devoted to frequent flyer matters; several provide free online systems for keeping track of your miles and awards:
FlyerTalk: www.flyertalk.com
MaxMiles: www.maxmiles.com/mileageminer/airlines.asp
Mileage Workshop: www.mileageworkshop.com
MileageRunner.com: www.mileagerunner.com
Milesource.com: www.milesource.com
Myairmiles.com: www.myairmiles.com
General Air
These sites provide links to sites of interest to air travelers, including airlines, airports, and other industry components:
Air travel center: airtravelcenter.com
Airguide Magazine Website: www.pyramid.ch/online.htm
Airline Phone Numbers: www.airlinenumbers.com
Airline Safety Home Page: www.airlinesafety.com
Airlineandairportlinks: www.airlineandairportlinks.com
AirlineMeals.net: www.airlinemeals.net
Airlines of the Web: flyaow.com/airlines.htm
AirNet Web Site: homepage.ntlworld.com/airnet/
AirSafe: www.airsafe.com
Airwise: www.airwise.com/index.html
Aviation Home Page: www.avhome.com
Aviation World: fly.to/aviationworld
Friendly Flyer: www.friendlyflyer.com
Ijet Travel Intelligence: www.ijet.com
Infoairports: www.infoairports.com
PlaneBusiness: www.planebusiness.com
QuickAid Airport Information: www.quickaid.com
Rules of the Air (OneTravel): www.onetravel.com
World airport codes: www.mapping.com/airportcodes.html#S
Three sites cover the major multi-airline alliances:
Oneworld: www.oneworld.com
SkyTeam: www.skyteam.com
Star: www.staralliance.com
Internet
Here are more sites that keep tabs on hotels, restaurants, businesses, and public locations with high-speed Internet connections:
Worldwide: www.wifinder.com
U.S. specific: www.wififreespot.com
Libraries: people.morrisville.edu/~drewwe/wireless/wirelesslibraries. htm
Searchable Database: www.boingo.com
Hotel Directory: www.geektools.com/geektels
Hotel
Several sites provide extensive listings of hotels, with at least basic information on size, location, features, and rates. Some of them "offer" to sell you a room, but at least the ones I list provide useful information without your having to enter travel dates and other trip details.
HotelShark: www.hotelshark.com
Hotel & Travel Index Online: www.htihotelink.com
Hotel Guide Intl Directory: www.hotelguide.com
HotelView (video clips from hotels): www.hotelview.com
Inn26.com: www.inn26.com
Resorts and lodges directory: www.resortsandlodges.com
Guests Online - US Hotel Directory: www.guests.com
North American Bed and Breakfast Directory: www.bbdirectory.com
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