Many of us will travel next weekend, or at some point between next Wednesday and the first of next year. Veteran traveler Jackson Miller has compiled his Holiday Flying Season tips into a handy article I highly recommend.

As a former travel agent, I have to say this is by far my favourite tip of the ten:

Don’t buy a ticket with multiple airlines
This is a huge no-no. What typically happens is that someone will buy their ticket from one of those online travel sites and their flight will have multiple carriers on a single day. This may very well be the absolute cheapest ticket, but it is not worth it no matter how much you save. The reason is that no one is accountable for you to actually get to your destination.

It’s almost impossible to describe the hell that happens when a split-carrier ticket goes bad.