I T S Travel

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Welcome to I. T. S. S. Travel/DiscountAir.com. I. T. S. S. is a fully licensed and insured travel agency which is family owned and operated. In business for over 25 years, I. T. S. S. was one of the first ( if not the first ) air consolidator to go on the Internet in 1995. The company is run by Stephen who has been in the travel industry for 12 years with a degree in Information Technolgy and Masters of Business from Keller Graduate School. If you are not familiar with the terms "airfare consolidator", or "wholesale airfares" let us try to explain. Because we sell a tremendous amount of airline tickets, certain airlines are willing to give us special fare contracts to promote their airline. These fares are "unpublished" fares as opposed to the "published" fares which every travel agency has and which the airlines will quote to you when you call them directly. The "unpublished" fares we sell range between 10 to 50% cheaper than the "published fares. Most of the business we do involves international travel to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the South Pacific. The tickets we sell are on your regularly scheduled airlines, not a third world carrier. We are not allowed to advertise the name of these airlines and can only reveal the name when you contact us. We try to give you a clue to the airline by giving you its hub city. For example, flights to Latin America connect through Houston and flights to Europe connect through Zurich or Frankfurt. We do not deal with charter airlines, we do not buy bulk seats and try to resell them. We sell you these seats only if the space is available. People frequently ask us why do the airlines "secretly" sell their tickets at lower prices and why do they only do it through special agencies. The answers are relatively simple. The airlines give us special fares to fill otherwise empty seats. The best analogy is your supermarket. If they don't sell a can of soup today they will sell it tomorrow and make a profit. Not so with the airline. When that plane takes off with an empty seat, that profit is gone forever. So it is better for them to get something for the seat rather than nothing. That does not mean we only sell last minute seats, but we will explain that later. The airlines make most of their money by selling from their published fares, so they don't want to lose that profit by reducing fares overall to the general public. So another analogy is in order. Just as many manufacturers have out-of-the-way factory outlet stores to sell their overstocks and seconds, so the airlines use consolidators. We are "out-of-the-way" in that we are not allowed to advertise the names of the airlines. Just as savy shoppers know about and take the time to shop the outlet stores, so do savvy travelers know about air consolidators and use them to save money. There are pros and cons to buying consolidator tickets and the pros far outweigh the cons. You are flying on a major airline at a dramitically reduced price ; you can buy your ticket for next day travel to almost a year ahead ; your ability to buy tickets within the 21, 14 and 7 day advance purchase rules for the same price only increases the amount of money you save ; you may earn frequent flyer mileage on most of our airlines ; in many cases these fares are available for both individual and group travel ; you can fly into one city and leave from another -and discounted business class fares are available on some airlines. The negatives are that the airlines don't want to make changes or refunds to these tickets once they have been issued. If changes or refunds are allowed heavy penalties are charged. We also offer great deals on car rentals, hotels, tours and cruises. For domestic air travel we can offer you great savings with our partnership with Hotwire.com. Just press on our link to get domestic fares which you can actually book on-line