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The 9 Factors Everyone Considers When Booking a Flight

Samantha Shankman

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Cost and schedule are the two factors that most poignantly impact an individual's ability to travel and the U.S. Travel Association's efforts to improve infrastructure will likely have too little an impact to be noticeable among everyday flyers concerned with their own travel limitations.

Cost is one of the more important factors for travelers when looking to book and buy air travel, and flyers want to have a good idea of what their total cost will be long before arriving at the airport. According to a survey of 1,031 U.S. business and leisure travelers, 92 percent of flyers find it very or somewhat important for them to be able to accurately budget the full cost of flying. The survey was conducted on behalf of the U.S. Travel Association by ResearchNow in an effort to validate several of their policy proposals. One of t

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