Holiday airfares coming down

Faced with falling demand, the airline industry has launched a broad fare sale for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. After a series of steep hikes — one a month, on average, through the first half of the year — airlines may be finding that they’ve priced themselves out of the market at a time when the economy appears to be crumbling.

“It’s by far the most broad-based fare sale we’ve tracked in at least 18 months,” says Rick Seaney of FareCompare.com, “and this is the earliest I’ve ever seen one.”

For travelgaygents, the timing of the sale looks especially good, since many GLBT people choose not to go home for the holidays. Deep hotel discounts, combined with the lower airfares, may help you book more clients on trips they’ve been putting off.