Information Madness

No, this is not a site where you can buy cheap Indian domestic tickets. My goal is to provide information. So ofcourse I will be writing about how you can get the best and cheapest airline tickets for your domestic travel in India. Online travel portals are on the boom and thanks to the competition, we as a customers are the winner in this game.

As you all know we have so many travel portals for Oline flight booking. iXiGo.com, ClearTrip.com and Zoomtra.com are few popular ones among many. I think these portals purely focuses on Indian travel industry and allows you to search for the best flight fares for your travel. So lets get to the tips and tricks for getting the cheapest airline tickets.

Do Some Research - There is no alternate to hard work. To get something cheap, you need to do some research work. Plan ahead. If you are planning to travel next month, start your research now.

RSS Feeds - RSS Feed is the best ways to get upto date information. Zoomtra.com has published their RSS feeds for lowest available airfare. Grab that RSS feed and stick it into your RSS readers. If you have GPRS enabled mobile phone, you can use mobile feed readers.

Email/SMS Alerts - If the travel portal has email or SMS alert feature, register your email address/mobile number with them to get the latest Special Offers via Email / SMS. Zoomtra.com has Email/SMS alert feature.

Google Gadgets: - I am sure you are one of millions who uses Google has their homepage. Google has launched its iGoogle feature where you can add important gadgets to start your day. Zoomtra and iXiGO.com has launched their Google Gadgets  You can download Zoomtra Google Gadget from Google Gadgets Directory. iXiGo Google gadget can also be found here. Zoomtra Google Gadget provides you lowest Airfares for a month on a miniature calendar right on your google home page. iXiGo provides you an interface where you can search for lowest airfares from within your Google Home page.

iXiGo Box Office - iXiGo has recently launched a new feature on their website called "iXiGo Box Office" that displays the lowest fares found recently by other iXiGO users.

Zoomtra Facebook Application : If you are one of those social networking people, Zoomtra has also released its facebook application called "India Dekha". You can use that application to keep track of your Zoomtra rates and other offers.

ClearTrip Graphs : Cleartrip has launched its graph feature. Cleartrip Graphs provides an indication of prices for a range of dates, so that you can see the cheapest fares easily. You need to select the "To" and "From" city with the choice of carrier that you want to fly with and the graph will plot the approx prices for those airlines for the month. You can get more details here

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