Cheap airfare tickets this fall

It's hard not to find a travel bargain these days. As we all know, taking the trip that you've always dreamed of can have a hefty price tag when you consider all of the things needed while trekking across western or eastern Europe. It's hard enough being away from the 'rents at college and having to foot your own laundry bill, let alone pay for an exciting excursion overseas. Budget travelers often anticipate the most expensive part of travel to be the airfare, yet for the past six weeks, that has not been the case.

In the somewhat Internet-dominated world of commerce, there is a plethora of travel websites where airfares are listed much lower than the premium prices. It is as simple, however, as connecting to your newly registered Ethernet connection (the fastest thing going right now) and setting your browser at http://www.mamma.com, or any search engine that you prefer to use. By simply typing in the words "e-savers" and "discount airfare" to the search box, you will find many links to airline and travel websites that have these limited-time savings.

U.S. Airways is one of the main websites that uses the actual term E-savers. By going to their website, you can also register to receive email notices about their upcoming specials. Right now, U.S Airways is offering an unbelievably cheap roundtrip flight from Baltimore to Frankfurt, Germany for $369. Even if your destination is somewhere else in Germany or Western Europe for that matter, flying into Frankfurt with this fare and doing the remaining travel by train is cheaper than paying the premium price to go to a particular destination. They are also offering fares from Baltimore-Washington International airport (BWI) to St. Thomas and St. Crois for $330.

Delta is currently having a fare sale on tickets to Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan. Flying out of John F. Kennedy airport (JFK) in New York is currently running at $719 roundtrip. The tickets must be purchased by September 14, 2001. American Airlines is also having a sale on trips to the East, with its "Gone to Taiwan" sale. It's $600 to fly from JFK to Taipei. For those of you who think that a trip to a sunny locale will be in order after finals, American also has a "Reach the Beach" sale on flights from JFK to the Cayman Islands as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico. It's $362 roundtrip to the Caymans and $353 to San Juan.

Trans-world Airlines (TWA) is also having an online sale that is more flexible as far as departure dates and times of travel. The sale they are offering right now is 10 percent off tickets to London and Paris and five percent off tickets to Cairo and Riyadh. These tickets, however, must be purchased online.

For those travelers with a more flexible schedule and longer times to travel, there is another alternative. Websites such as http://www.travelocity.com, http://www.priceline.com, and http://www.orbitz.com give you the power to name your price or to simply dig deeper into the abyss of major airline sales for the best possible price.