[mountn man]

If you travel get a credit card for the airline you fly the most. You'll probably get a large block of freq. flier miles just for enrolling. If they have a dining club, sign your card up for that, get miles for the purchase price, and for using your card. (Sometimes you can double up on savings if a restaurant is listed with the airline dining club and http://www.restaurant.com/

You can use the miles either to buy seats somewhere, or lets say your going to Hawaii, buy your tickets then upgrade to business or first.

Also for traveling checkout
http://www.hotwire.com/
I've used them for hotels and car rentals, and have done IMHO quite well.

There's also

http://travelocity.com/

http://www.expedia.com

http://www.orbitz.com/

Make sure you compare these three with Hotwire. Sometimes, not often, you can do just as well or better than Hotwire.

When getting airline tickets, sometimes going directly through the airline website will will save you $. At least it might save you the $5 booking fee Travelocity, etc. charge. You might also get freq. flier miles. Sometimes they also have better seat selections

Travelocity has a fare watcher alert, that you can have E-mails when specific destinations drop in price.

And when using your credit card ALWAYS pay it off when the bill comes!!!!!!!!!!