It's the classic cheap-seat-seeker dilemma. Do you wait, or do you buy?

Comparison shopping is difficult enough. This just seems like a step in the wrong direction. You end up comparing apples and hamburgers.

Meta-search sites are searching in real time, but with a limited number of sites. They can't guarantee the best deal. It's a huge challenge.

The airlines are always looking for the silver lining in adversity, and I think this is likely to be a genuine one.

That caused such turmoil in the industry. Hopefully they will start to ease. There was a lot of biting the bullet when fuel prices were so high, but 2006 does promise some light at the end of that tunnel.