mirevolver

I fly southwest.

Unfortunatly that doesn't work when I travel to Denver to visit my parents. So when I can't fly southwest, I compare airline rates, and sometimes call up the airlines and start pitting them against eachother.

ex:
Me: "Hello, United Airlines?"
UA: "Yes, how can we help you"
Me: "I'm looking to travel from Phoenix to Denver from [insert date] to [insert date]."
UA: "We have a rate of $315 for that trip"
Me: "Oh, well I was just on the phone with America West and they offered me a rate of $300."
UA: "One second please" (puts me on hold)
UA: (takes me off hold a minute later) "We can give you the flight you're asking for for $270"
Me: "That's great can you put a hold on that price."
UA: "Yes we can, the hold will expire at midnight" (proceeds to take down my information)

Hang up then call America West Airlines and do the exact same thing to them. Keep it up until one airline refuses to go any lower and then claim the cheapest fare hold.

*Note, this tends to not work when one of the airlines is a low-fare airline like Frontier.

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