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Get Two Companion Airline Tickets for $134? Sold.

I just got an email from American Airlines (my airline of choice) offering 2 free companion tickets within the domestic U.S. for $134. I took some time to really dig around the information and went ahead and bought the membership to AATravelPerks to get our free tickets along with a bunch of other discounts that we could probably use sometime in the near future. But the real reason we bought it was for the free tickets. Both my family and my wife’s family live far far away…one in the midwest and one on the east coast. And flying back and forth all year for various occasions can get expensive. The last 2 flights we took to visit family cost us about $2000. But if we had this membership it only would have cost us $1000. That’s quite a big savings over the average cost of $500 per person per flight and I decided that $134 was a worthwhile investment to save way more in the long run.

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Do you need to get your passport quickly? Better cough up some dough.

I remember reading Five Cent Nickel’s post New Passport Requirements for International Travel back in November when he was discussing the new requirements for international travel, and just yesterday I came across this article with some tips on getting your passport quickly, even with all the new rules and regulations surrounding them. So, I figured I would post some info here that hopefully would be helpful to those of you out there that DON’T have your passport yet but are planning on traveling in the very near future. Keep in mind though, that not planning ahead will cost you almost double.

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Learn a Foreign Language for Free.

While I have spent some time abroad, most of the places I have gone have such a firm grasp on English that I never really needed to go any further than use my high school Spanish lessons and what amounted to a “French for Dummies” book. But since my travels might take me to some more diverse countries in the near future, this post over at Lifehacker could not have come at a better time. Turns out that through iTunes, there is a plethora of podcasts available that will teach you a foreign language at little or no cost. So if you are heading out of the states, you might want to load up on one of these to help you in your travels. And at a cost of nothing, it sure beats spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on language tapes and/or CD’s!

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Airlines charge you more to fly so they dont have to recycle to save money.

According to ENN, airlines do not recycle aluminum cans or paper or plastic from their flights. Jeez…thats just scary. Is that why its so expensive to fly? Want to see some numbers on how much waste is throw away and how much money they are wasting?

“-discarding 4,250 tons of aluminum cans and other items that could be recycled

-the industry threw out 9,000 tons of plastic and enough newspapers and magazines to fill a football field to a depth of more than 230 feet

-”Airlines in the U.S. throw away enough aluminum cans every year to build 58 new 747s,” said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist at NRDC

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