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Looking for cheap flights - 12 simple tricks
Saving is a simple art! A selection of tips for buying cheap tickets from experienced travelers and professionals.
1. The 24-hour rule
The day after you booked your ticket, do not be lazy to check whether the prices for the flight you paid for have decreased. If reduced (which often happens), a number of airlines give the right to cancel the reservation without losing money and rebook the ticket at a more favorable price for you.
2. Keep track of hot offers
Most airlines cut ticket prices when they fail to complete the flight for the weekend. The most "hot tickets" appear on Tuesday. It is on this day that travelers have the most chances to snatch a cheap ticket for a convenient Friday evening or Saturday.
3. Look for directions at the chosen price, not prices at the selected destinations
Most modern search engines provide the opportunity to check which destinations from your city are the cheapest. Based on this data, the route should be made.
4. Travel on Wednesdays
It is for these days that tickets are most often sold at burning prices. Midweek is a time when most seats on planes remain unoccupied, so airlines are forced to sell some tickets at reduced prices.
5. Don’t ignore social media.
Many airlines for PR purposes prefer to post the most profitable offers on pages in social networks. It is necessary to catch such tickets as soon as possible: as a rule, they disperse faster than any hot cakes.
6. Take off in the morning.
The first flight in the morning is usually the cheapest. It is followed by the afternoon hours for cheapness.
7. Choose "secondary" airports
Most major cities, in addition to the main airports, have "secondary" airports, which, as a rule, are smaller in size and located more remote from the city limits. Flights of budget companies, as a rule, depart from them. However, in order not to lose the price, keep in mind that the road to the city from such airports is more expensive than from the main ones!
8. Look for morning tickets
It is at the beginning of the day that airlines throw out the largest number of profitable offers into the network.
9. Subscribe to mailing lists
Of course, no one likes the rubble of emails in their email inboxes, but subscription to newsletters is the surest way to quickly learn about updated prices. Often profitable offers are available only for 24 hours, and you simply do not have time to catch them on the network yourself.
10. Fly from European cities
Remember these names once and for all: Ryanair, Wizzair, EasyJet. These European low-cost companies carry out transportation at completely ridiculous prices: from 10 euros per ticket! Unfortunately, they do not actually fly from Russian cities, but the flights of these companies are carried out from Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn and Helsinki, which can be reached by train, bus or inexpensive flights.
11. Travel lightly
The above-mentioned low-cost companies, as a rule, charge an additional fee for luggage, which often exceeds the cost of the ticket itself. However, if your plans do not include a long trip around the world, you can try to bring your luggage with you to the cabin; many specialty stores even sell suitcases, the size of which is adjusted to the format of hand luggage.
12. Book your tickets six weeks before departure
A useful tip for those who are not going to track burning tickets. According to statistics, the most favorable prices for certain destinations appear about 6 weeks before the upcoming trip.
Source: interest-planet.ru
1. The 24-hour rule
The day after you booked your ticket, do not be lazy to check whether the prices for the flight you paid for have decreased. If reduced (which often happens), a number of airlines give the right to cancel the reservation without losing money and rebook the ticket at a more favorable price for you.
2. Keep track of hot offers
Most airlines cut ticket prices when they fail to complete the flight for the weekend. The most "hot tickets" appear on Tuesday. It is on this day that travelers have the most chances to snatch a cheap ticket for a convenient Friday evening or Saturday.
3. Look for directions at the chosen price, not prices at the selected destinations
Most modern search engines provide the opportunity to check which destinations from your city are the cheapest. Based on this data, the route should be made.
4. Travel on Wednesdays
It is for these days that tickets are most often sold at burning prices. Midweek is a time when most seats on planes remain unoccupied, so airlines are forced to sell some tickets at reduced prices.
5. Don’t ignore social media.
Many airlines for PR purposes prefer to post the most profitable offers on pages in social networks. It is necessary to catch such tickets as soon as possible: as a rule, they disperse faster than any hot cakes.
6. Take off in the morning.
The first flight in the morning is usually the cheapest. It is followed by the afternoon hours for cheapness.
7. Choose "secondary" airports
Most major cities, in addition to the main airports, have "secondary" airports, which, as a rule, are smaller in size and located more remote from the city limits. Flights of budget companies, as a rule, depart from them. However, in order not to lose the price, keep in mind that the road to the city from such airports is more expensive than from the main ones!
8. Look for morning tickets
It is at the beginning of the day that airlines throw out the largest number of profitable offers into the network.
9. Subscribe to mailing lists
Of course, no one likes the rubble of emails in their email inboxes, but subscription to newsletters is the surest way to quickly learn about updated prices. Often profitable offers are available only for 24 hours, and you simply do not have time to catch them on the network yourself.
10. Fly from European cities
Remember these names once and for all: Ryanair, Wizzair, EasyJet. These European low-cost companies carry out transportation at completely ridiculous prices: from 10 euros per ticket! Unfortunately, they do not actually fly from Russian cities, but the flights of these companies are carried out from Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn and Helsinki, which can be reached by train, bus or inexpensive flights.
11. Travel lightly
The above-mentioned low-cost companies, as a rule, charge an additional fee for luggage, which often exceeds the cost of the ticket itself. However, if your plans do not include a long trip around the world, you can try to bring your luggage with you to the cabin; many specialty stores even sell suitcases, the size of which is adjusted to the format of hand luggage.
12. Book your tickets six weeks before departure
A useful tip for those who are not going to track burning tickets. According to statistics, the most favorable prices for certain destinations appear about 6 weeks before the upcoming trip.
Source: interest-planet.ru
