Have you ever noticed how some of your friends seem to get away on a lot of holidays each year? Maybe they’re just lucky, or maybe they know the secrets to finding cheap airline tickets.

Before internet usage became so common, the trick to finding the best deals on flights often involved waiting until the very last moment and then phoning a specialist flight broker.

Such brokers were often able to offer extremely competitive last minute deals, allowing you access to cheap prices. They were able to get their hands on cheap tickets because some airlines would find themselves with excess capacity and would look to brokers to fill seats.

Heathrow Airport, Europe’s busiest international airport, is the most used gateway into the UK for many overseas visitors. Most are probably unaware that regional airports often offer lower cost flights.

It’s hardly surprising that most people looking to fly into London and the south east of England assume that they are best flying into one of the major London airports, such as Heathrow or Gatwick.

Certainly Heathrow appears to have plenty to offer - namely a large selection of flights to choose from and proximity to central London (about 45 minutes to central London on the Underground last time I travelled the route).

As a nation full of travelers, we easily spend hours of our day dreaming about that next break, only to finally act on whatever special is going on at the time of booking, regardless if that’s where we intended to go or not. Why? Because we assume that the flashy deal is the only way to get the great price. Thankfully with the abundance of online booking services and great discount travel websites now scattered throughout the web, the competition is so fierce that someone is always offering a great deal - and finally, it’s to destinations you actually want to visit!

Timeshares are costly and very limiting. There are large up front costs and ongoing fees, which can be as much as $400 or $500 a month. Generally, timeshares can be used only once a year, some only every two years, and you can’t always get them when you want them. Most people don’t want to travel to the same place year after year. Because there are so many interesting and exciting destinations around the world, it makes absolutely no sense to invest your money in one destination. You can exchange your timeshare for another location, but this can be extremely difficult. Fortunately there is an exciting alternative that will save you thousands of dollars in the long term.

When you think of Cyprus, usually one of the first places that pops into your head is Paphos. It is by far Cyprus’s most popular tourist destination and looking back on its history it is not hard to see why. This article is about Paphos and particular the culture and history surrounding it.

One of the main reasons why the area is so popular is because it was once home to the mythical Goddess Aphrodite. When the Goddess mystically appeared out of the sea it obviously caused a lot of interest and thousands of tourists started flocking to the island. It became the Capital of Cyprus but today it is better known as a small harbour town.

Flight prices are as low now as they have ever been, thanks in no small part to the rise of budget airlines. In the word’s of a former British Prime Minister, we’ve “never had it so good”.

We may think of budget airlines as being a new concept but they’ve actually been around for quite some time. Southwest Airlines offered a ticketless operation back in the early 1970s and that is an approach that will be familiar to millions of customers who have used the likes of Ryanair, Easyjet and Flybe in recent years.

Could the writing be on the wall for low cost airlines operating out of the UK and other European countries as the Conservative Party - once a campaigner and implementer of lower taxes - has called for purchase tax to be introduced to domestic flights?

The tax would add up to 17.5 per cent on to the cost of a flight from one British city to another, but while flights to the European mainland and popular holiday islands such as Menorca aren’t specifically mentioned, one travel company believes the new policy will inevitably lead to higher fares for flights not just within Britain, but elsewhere too.

It’s that time of year again, and for those wanting to head home and spend time with family and friends during the holiday season, air travel can be a long and stressful process

So how can you help ease these stresses and frustrations of air travel during the holiday season?

Here are a few helpful tips to help you get through those potentially stressful holiday flights.

Flying is a necessary evil if you want to get from one place to another. The level of evil you must submit to, however, is directly proportional to the class of seating you have. First class seating on a long flight is simply heaven on earth.

First class. Ah…. People feeding you grapes and fanning you with big palm leaves. Okay, maybe not. Still first class is where you find seats made for the human body and stewardesses that don’t act like French waiters. On a long flight, first class is where you want to be.