NOTE: This is not an Airhitch® registration form! Do not mistake it for such! This form is for requesting a price quote on confirmed seats, which generally cost at least double what it costs to fly on space-available by using the Airhitch® system, if such is possible, for the itinerary you require! So, if you are going to Europe, Hawaii, or the Caribbean/Mexico, and your objective is to minimize cost, do not use this form! Click here instead!
INSTRUCTIONS (read them and follow them, or you run a high risk of just getting your request bounced!):
Express date-flexibilities as +/-N, where N is the number of days before or after your expressed preferred date during which you can comfortably be ready to fly; or, -M+N, where M is the number of days BEFORE your expressed preferred date you can be ready to fly, and N is the number of days AFTER your expressed preferred date by which you MUST fly.
Examples (skip these if you think you understand the above): a flexibility of +/-2 days with a preferred date of May 21 would mean you could fly anytime between May 19 and May 23; -1+3 would mean you could fly anytime between May 20 and 24; -2 by itself would mean you can fly May 19-21; +10 by itself would mean you can fly May 19-28; and 0 by itself means no flexibility, you MUST fly on the EXACT date you specified (don't expect a very low Target Flight quote!).
Express geographic flexibilities as alternative points to your expressed preferred point, or as regions AROUND your expressed preferred point.
Examples: (1) preferred point Paris, with flexibility anywhere within 300 mi. of Paris; (2) preferred point London, alternatives Manchester, Birmingham; (3) preferred point London, alternatives Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris; (4) preferred point Rome, flexibility anywhere in Italy, Switzerland,or southern France; (5) preferred point Boston, alternative New York or Montreal; (6) preferred point Miami, flexibility anywhere in Florida; (7) preferred point El Paso, alternatives Albuquerque, Austin, Phoenix; (8) San Diego, alternatives any southern Calif. airport. "None" means you MUST have the exact city you are asking for (don't expect a very low Target Flight quote!) NOTE: Do not use the numbers of these examples in the form. Use plain English, or just place-names, to express what you want to express. The above are just examples, not encodings, and they do not exhaust the set of possible preferences you can express, which is probably infinite!
**TECH NOTE**: Users of some browsers, notably some versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and also certain connection sites and ISPs, notably AOL, have found that their browsers/sites/ISPs do not handle "mailto" CGI forms properly, so, especially if you use Internet Explorer, we would strongly urge you to use the text-only form plus regular email, instead. Or, if you elect to use this CGI form, and do not hear from us within a few hours, THEN switch to text-only.
TO: Whole Earth Travel/Airhitch(R)
FROM: (email address) (Your complete (first & last) name)
Please provide me a Target Flight(r) quote for the following dates/itinerary:
Departure date, outbound:Flexibility:
City of origin, outbound:Flexibility:
Destination, outbound:Flexibility:
Departure date, return:Flexibility:
City of origin, return:Flexibility:
Destination, return:Flexibility:
Names of all passengers:
No. of adults in traveling party: No. of children age 2-12: No. of infants:
Will you have in your possession while abroad a EurailPass, EuroLines bus pass, or other unlimited, flat-rate form of ground transport? yes no maybe
Lowest per-passenger quote you have so far found for this trip (DO NOT SKIP):
$ including excluding taxes/fees (choose one)
Currency type (if not US dollars)
From (specific source of this quote, by name; if source is a website, please provide URL; otherwise please provide phone contact):
For (which specific dates & itinerary this quote applies to, from the above):
NOTE: the above three fields are NOT OPTIONAL; if you omit them, your Target Flight quote request form CANNOT BE PROCESSED, and will be "bounced" to you for the purpose of obtaining the missing data. If you have not yet obtained quotes from other sources, you should do so so you can compare our quote in an informed manner. Also, please note that the form requests dates AND itinerary...PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE OFF THE ITINERARY PART! The itinerary is the exact origin and destination for each leg of the trip for which you received the quote. Do NOT simply tell us the date(s) for which you received your quote, this information is USELESS without the itinerary. PLEASE DON'T MAKE US READ YOUR MIND! If you leave off the itinerary, we will only have to "bounce" your request back to you so you can supply the missing data.
ANOTHER NOTE: An advertisement is not a quote. A quote is a verbal or written personalized commitment by a transportation-provider to board you on a specific flight, or a flight operating on a specific itinerary on a specific date, at a given price.
TARGET FLIGHT(R) QUOTE TERMS AND CONDITIONS (sorry, but the lawyers say we GOTTA do it!)
By submitting the above electronic request form, I affirm that:
I understand that the act of submitting this request DOES NOT OBLIGATE OR BIND ME to any payment, expenditure, or purchase.
I understand that the quote I am hereby requesting will be based upon seating availability in the fare classes quoted at the moment Whole Earth/Airhitch® checks it, and is based on the assumption that said space will be available for the dates I have requested at the moment Whole Earth/Airhitch® attempts to transact the booking on my behalf.
I further understand that in the unlikely event the precise transportation requested is not available at the original "Target Flight® price-indication" at the moment Whole Earth/Airhitch® attempts to make the booking, WholeEarth/Airhitch® will work with me to arrive at the closest possible approximation in terms of itinerary and dates, within the Target® price, and that I can either accept the alternatives proposed or agree to pay a slight additional supplement, which in no case will be more than 20% of the original quote.
[A final note: when you click the "submit" button, you will NOT automatically receive a confirmation from us that the CGI form has been received, nor will you probably receive any confirmation from your browser that it has been sent. Please do not repeatedly click the "submit" button as that will result in flooding us with multiple copies of your request. If you want confirmation that we have received it, we strongly urge you to send us a regular email, with the "return receipt requested" function enabled in sendmail,, asking for such confirmation, immediately after you click the "submit" button.]