The Call to Foreign Missions
Have you ever been on a mission trip to a foreign country? Possibly you read a magazine article about places far away and people in spiritual darkness, and it seemed obvious to you: Someone should go and help them.
Introducing Missionary Fares
International air travel not only is expensive, but it is confusing and totally unfamiliar to most people. How does one handle this part of the journey? How do you book the ticket without spending all of your support money or getting stuck with restrictions that don’t work for you? There are plenty of resources for the leisure and business traveler, but is there anything out there for the missionary?
AFC Travel Inc. has been helping missionaries and mission teams for more than 15 years. Established solely to help missionaries get where they are called to serve, AFC Travel offers Missionary fares (also called Humanitarian fares). These fares are uniquely designed to meet the needs of the missionminded traveler. In a nutshell, the benefits include discounted prices, extra baggage allowance, more lenient change/cancel fees, stopovers, one-way fares and long-stay fares. There is even a Web site: afctravel.com, which allows you to book these fares online. To ensure that you are getting the best fare available, this site also will search every published fare offered on 700+ airlines worldwide. If flight schedules or specific airlines are important to you, the site has tools to let you pick and choose.
The savings for Missionary fares begin with discounted prices from privately negotiated airfares on more than 35 different airlines. These discounted fares can be up to 40 percent off the regularly priced published fare. Trips can originate anywhere in the world, and stopovers are allowed along the way, usually for a nominal charge.
More savings result with special missionary fares because some of these fares often allow a third piece of checked baggage absolutely free. This means you can bring those extra supplies or donated goods without paying a big overage charge at the airport.
What about change/cancel penalties? More savings are ahead when you purchase a missionary fare. When you buy a low-priced published fare directly from the airline, you almost always are getting a highly restricted or non-changeable, non-refundable ticket. Not so with missionary fares. The change penalties for these low, discounted fares tend to be more flexible with minimal change penalties.
Moreover, when buying a regularly published fare from the airlines, one-way fares are frequently more expensive than a roundtrip ticket. This is not the case with missionary fares, which are usually a percentage of the roundtrip fare. Similarly, long-stay fares (one year or more) are generally very high-priced when purchased directly from the airline. Missionary fares tend to be the same price whether staying for one week or one year.
Missionaries and humanitarian travelers can book flights the easy way and save money, letting the Web site search millions of fares to find the best deal.
Book a Mission/Humanitarian trip online at afctravel.com or call 1.800.599.2925.
