Sick of Baggage Fees?

Sick of airlines dropping travel prices only to be side-swiped by high costs for any of your baggage?  Me too.  Luckily, there's a company called Orion Travel Technology that is planning something special for the start of 2016: new luggage and fee-free-baggage (for up to 6 trips...not sure if this is one way or roundtrip?)!  If you're one of the first users, you'll be part of their lifetime membership which gives you unlimited fee-free-flights.

The catch?  It appears there will be a yearly fee for the service and the new luggage will turn you into a walking advertisement for whatever company logo Orion sends you to stick on the bag.

Still, you get to customize one side of the bag, pay $20 total for your 6 trips worth of baggage?  Just one bag can be $50, then additional baggage fees rack up quickly.  Are you really that attached to your designer luggage?  I, for one, am not.  So bring on the reduced airfare costs (you know...back to how it was when you thought the airfare included your luggage) and send me some new bags and fun stickers...I'll be your travel-model.  Watch me work that runway!

Supply and demand, my friends.  Advertising: running the world, and saving us from bag fees.

Thanks to AirFareWatchdog for the info!

Lower Airfare Near the Witching Hour?

Totally in the experimental stage still...but for the past two-three weeks when searching for airfares, they were almost always cheaper when I looked late at night (between 9pm and 12am EST) than when I searched during the daytime at the same flights.

By waiting until nighttime to buy, the price drop was significant going from as high as $346 to as low as $211 for a one way ticket, which is obviously an even larger gap if you need two of them.  Since a lot of airlines are changing over to an equal-equal pricing system, where you even buy your round trip tickets by combining individual one-ways, it's worth thinking about this daytime vs. late night buying timetable.  So if you're searching, try it for yourselves, and let me know if you guys are getting the same results!