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   Flying as a courrier.

Many carriers have often need to deliver packages abroad, avoiding the long times of cargoes, while exploiting the quickness of line flights. In these occasions, instead of employing someone of their staff (to whom they should pay ticket to and fro and extra overtime) they prefer to offer to interested travellers a very bargain ticket. The discount goes from 50% to 90% and the traveller acting as messager is in no way responsible for the content of what he delivers.
It's however to take into account two aspects that make of such a way of travelling a real philosophy:
1- You cannot choose the date of start, but you have to catch the occasion as it flies past (which is not always according to one's holidays)
2- You'll have to make all you need stay in your hand luggage, but somtimes the discount is so big that you may find it convenient to buy part of what you need when on the spot.

These are the main portals for travelling as a messager, unfortunately they are chiefly oriented towards U.S.A. users:
The International Association of Air Travel Couriers
www.courier.org

Now Voyager Travel
www.nowvoyagertravel.com

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If you are travellers you'll possibly have past one night in an airport, maybe you had even taken it for granted: The flight starts at 5,15, I go there at evening, I lay somewhere...
Well, in that case this is the website for you: The Budget Traveller's Guide to Sleeping in Airports, by Donna McSherry. A guide made by travellers with all details about thousands of airports all across the world: news about security, comfort, tolerance, etc., all genially coordinated by the author.

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