Most of us like to travel whether it is just a couple hundred miles in the car for a weekend getaway, or clear across the globe for a summer in Italy. Naturally, when we venture far from home we must turn to air travel unless you are a person who is scared to fly. So, the search begins for low-priced airline tickets. Sometimes, I can not help but wonder if there truly is such a thing. Even after scouring the web, I often came up empty handed. I used to think to myself; please tell me this is not just a dilemma exclusive to me. No offense to the "deal sites," but sometimes they just didn't seem to come through.

There were so many like travelocity.com, orbitz.com, priceline.com, cheaptickets.com, etc... I can not even begin to try to name them all. Now, the goal of these websites is to provide folks like you and me with low-priced airline tickets. Or at least I thought that was the goal. They tell you to name your price? Well, that routine just did not seem to work for me. Oh I name my price alright, but it never let me purchase airline tickets for price I wanted. And I am not saying that I use to punch in something ridiculous like two dollars. I think I put in a fair price, but it was always rejected. I began to think maybe it was me. Maybe, I just chose the wrong times to look.

In all honesty, I am surprised that airline tickets are as high as they are these days. They