If you wanted to travel abroad a decade or so ago you had no choice but to book your flights through travel agents.
Nowadays with the rapid pace that technology has moved forward, the task has got a lot easier.
If you are looking for cheap flights the task is much simpler.
All you have to do is open up your laptop or mobile phone app and type in your destination details.
Within seconds of typing in your keywords you are presented with an endless supply of travel websites, which, in actual fact can spoil you for choice.
Click on any of the top listings and you will now be presented with a flight search box.
This I believe is the greatest tool any traveller could wish for.
Just insert your departure and destination airports with the dates you wish to travel and within a minute or so you can see a complete list of flight comparison sites competing with each other eager to capture your business.
You have the option to bookmark some the websites while you can still search other flight comparison websites and see whether or not they can offer you a better deal.
The beauty of this easy process is that you know for sure, you really are getting the best possible flight deal at the lowest possible price.
You can book directly with the airlines knowing full well that all the major airlines are all ATOL and ABTA protected.
There are no commission fees being referred to the middle man (travel agents).
So the next time you decide to go on holiday and wish book a cheap flight through a travel agent, by all means go ahead and get a quote.
But do check the same flight routes and dates on the internet and see the difference in prices.
The chances are that your travel agent has also booked you the very same flight from this very website.