The sofisticated travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler dedicates an interesting note to the topic of Low-Fare Revolution. That is, the merging of a growing number of cheap travel deals, in transportation and lodging as well. Unfortunately, for those of us who live in the third world, for now, the consequences of the phenomenom are limited to the north american, asian and european market, although I know of a few low-fare airlines operating in Brasil, Uruguay and Argentina -something we already talked about in a previous post.

In the case of some routes between Asia and Europe, the fall of ticket fares has been really dramatic, going from an average of $300 down to $108, sometimes with incredible ’sales’ of something over $25. But not everything is nice: the note tell us how, as part of the plan to reduce costs, cheap airlines have eliminated almost completely food and accomodations during the flight. Besides, they are very strict in penalizing excess baggage. Everything they do just to save fuel.

The note can be found at this site.