Many low cost airlines reckon they're feeling the pinch of economic goings on, but always defiant Ryanair is only talking positive.

Ryanair sells gift vouchers that recipients can use towards flights and the current sales of these are apparently at least 10 percent higher than last Christmas time. The airline's theory on the increase in sales is that this kind of present is a "low budget, high impact" one.

It's only low budget if you buy the stingy minimum voucher of £20 or €25 (around $30) but your friend or family member will be lucky to get a one way ticket out of that. Of course, there are some people on our Christmas list we'd like to give a one way ticket to. Perhaps Ryanair is really onto something.

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"They" say that gift cards are impersonal, but if someone bought us a $200 gift card on JetBlue or Southwest, we wouldn't say the gifter "didn't know us well enough."

Plus, it's incredibly easy to buy travel gift cards. We snapped this shot in our local Pavillions supermarket in Los Angeles which has one of those amazing Gift Card Malls featuring any retail outlet you can imagine. Spotted in the travel section were gift cards to JetBlue, Southwest, American Airlines, Travelocity, Marriott and even Chevron and Shell gas stations.

There are even more travel gift cards out there, too. For instance, Vegas.com just unveiled a gift card, and our sis site, HotelChatter rounded up the gift card offerings for hotels.

One card they probably won't sell in the supermarket? The Four Seasons gift card which stores up to $100,000 in credit.

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