Kiplinger tries to help you save money on your next airline “flight”—we have to put quotation marks around that word now, since the prospect of actually getting up in the air seems purely hypothetical at this point—with their latest travel article. A lot of the advice boils down to, “Find out what each airline charges extra for, then choose a different airline,” but it’s helpful to have everything in one article for a quick reference.

Our favorite bit of advice: avoid booking fees from travel sites by using travel search engines instead—they suggest Kayak.com or Airfarewatchdog.com—which will then route you directly to the appropriate airline’s site to buy a ticket, letting you avoid the booking fee completely.

“Coping With Rising Travel Fees” [Kiplinger]
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