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Summary

Frequent travelers can talk about air travel or search for discounted travel fares in the rec.travel.air and the rec.travel.marketplace newsgroups. The rec.travel.air newsgroup offers travelers and general consumers a forum for personal stories, requests for information, advice, and debate concerning airline travel around the world. Rec.travel.marketplace is an online market for 'wanted' and 'for sale' travel accommodations and tickets. The frequent travelers and travel experts who hang out in rec.travel.air post links to articles about the latest airplanes and travel developments (Airbus' "flying palace"), offer travel tips and advice such as how to obtain visas for international travel, complain about travel experiences (flight cancelled, luggage lost, acts of god, and airline negligence), wax poetic on the experience of flying and traveling and staggered seating on certain airline's planes, request help finding cheap fares to a myriad of places, and so on. Members of this newsgroup also frequent the rec.travel.marketplace, so that they may obtain the tickets which provide fodder for their rec.travel.air postings. FAQ: http://hasbrouck.org/faq/.