www.satovacations.com For nearly half a century Sato Travel has been a leading provider of Army travel-management services for both official and vacation travel -- including airline reservations, hotels, rental cars, cruises, and tours. Please check-out their fee-free airline, car, hotel, booking and our fee-free tour and cruise centers.

www.afvclub.com CENDANT provides three outstanding services for you the MWR patron. The Armed Forces Vacation Club (AFVC) is a "Space Available" program that offers condominium vacations at resorts around the world for only $209 per unit per week. The Offduty Travelers Advantage is a for fee membership which offers travel reservation services via a toll free reservation center; a low price guarantee; no fees or surcharges for service; 5% cash back on all airfares, rental cars, and hotels booked through Travelers Advantage. The Offduty Autovantage Gold is for fee membership which offers auto travel services, emergency roadside service, towing and free services with several leading retailers in the car industry, and new and used car buying and selling services. Additionally, the membership offers 5% - 30% off regular room rates at over 7,000 hotels across the U.S. and 5% - 30% off car rentals from major car companies. 

www.travelocity.com is a one-stop travel Internet site providing secure online reservation capabilities for air, car, hotel and vacation reservations, plus access to a vast database of destination and other travel information.

www.expedia.com is a one-stop travel Internet site providing secure online reservation capabilities for air, car, hotel and vacation reservations, plus access to a vast database of destination and other travel information. Expedia.com also allows customers to specify their own prices for airline tickets and have access to a complete resource of airline and travel planning services with the introduction of Flight Price Matcher.

www.previewtravel.com is a provider of online travel services for leisure and small-business travelers. It offers one-stop shopping for airline tickets, vacation packages, car rentals, hotels and cruises, as well as integrated access to travel information, merchandise, news and 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (24/7) customer service. Note - Preview Travel and Travelocity plan to merge! More to follow on that.

Hotwire.com Hotwire is an online outlet for discount travel services. Their mission is to deliver the easiest way for consumers to get the best prices on airline tickets and other travel products. (Hotel reservations and rental cars are coming soon!) Hotwire provides low prices without any time-consuming bidding or research -- it takes just minutes to get a search result.

www.travelbase.com (or Lodging.com) is primarily a lodging reservation site. It does provide air and cruise booking. This site is powered by the NTIC Travelbase database. The NTIC Travelbase is the same database that travel agents use to book travel. You can research, plan and book your trips 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

www.uniglobe.com is an online provider of travel services for leisure and small-business travelers. It offers one-stop shopping for airline tickets, cruises, car rentals, hotels and vacation packages, as well as access to travel information, travel merchandise, and 24 hours a day, 7 days a week customer service.

www.biztravel.com is the Internet Company for frequent business travelers. Their mission is to help frequent business travelers plan and book business trips faster, easier, with increased confidence, and greater satisfaction. Some of their services include travel bookings for flights, car rentals, and hotels; keeping track of your frequent flyer account, and a Pager Alerts service that pages you an hour before your scheduled departure to tell you your flight status, gate number, and weather in your destination city.

www.cruising.org is a full service cruise Website developed and managed by Cruise Lines International Association. This Website features an on-line Expert Cruise Planner, vacation travel guide and planner, feature stories, and a comprehensive cruise line listing (links).

www.concierge.com is a full service travel-planning site that features consumer advice, airport guides, and ideas on where to spend your weekend. Concierge.com provides travel aid, travel reference, and numerous links to air, cruise, and lodging sites.

www.cruisebook.com is cruise planning and reservation site. Cruisebook.com has numerous links to nationally recognized cruise providers and a "best fare finder" option. www.cruise.com is a full service cruise Website which provide cruise information, travel links, and "fare finder" option.

www.itasoftware.com is a new airfare shopping technology (in Beta testing) that finds the lowest fares and flight options for any travel request. It is proprietary technology not affiliated with any type of commercial travel agent or on-line Reservation Company and was developed by former students in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Lab. It will evaluate all of the fare and flight combinations for each travel request in a single input session. To use ITA software, go to www.itasoftware.com. Click on the "Our Technology" button on the left, which provides a product overview. Then click on "Try Our Beta Site." You will need to register (logon name and password). From that point, you are ready to use the software. Be sure you know your airport codes. If not, go to www.flyaow.com/citycode.htm. Note - the software is in Beta testing and is not a stable, mature software system and does not yet permit online booking of the airfares. You can print or copy down the information and take it to a travel agent; the airline itself; the airline's Web site, or to another online travel agency to do your reservations.

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