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If you want dirt cheap airline tickets, you have to be prepared to do some of the research work yourself. Obviously the best place to start looking for discount airfares is here on the Internet, where a multitude of travel agents will offer dirt cheap airline tickets. And it helps if you ask them at the right time and in the right way.

The time is pretty good right now, though. Why? Because the air travel industry is having a really hard time now, ever since the events of 9/11. That's the day air travel changed completely. Security was bumped up, more security people were hired to check everyone and all the baggage, getting through all the check ins took far longer than before, and many people just took buses or trains instead for local flights. Or they drove themselves by road.

The airline companies are hurting

The hard fact the airlines have had to deal with is that air travel is down right now. Fewer people are flying, and more struggling airline companies will go to the wall. So the competition to sell a discounted air tickets if fierce... and your chances of getting a great deal on air travel are pretty good.

The only fly in that ointment is the steadily increasing costs of fuel, thanks to higher oil prices. But you can still find people mighty desperate to sell you a cut-price air line ticket. It's not just cut price... A lot of it is now cut throat. Not your throat, mind you, theirs. The airlines are fighting to survive and your bargaining position just got even better, didn't it?

The oil factor

So search the web for discount flights and cheap airline tickets. Budget air fares are still around, but you also need to get a move on and grab something before the oil price forces ticket prices up. And I can't see them going back down again in the near future.

May you find your dirt cheap airline tickets somewhere on these pages!