Are you looking for ways to find cheap flights?
Do you keep seeing your friends on instagram traveling from one part of the world to the other, and wondering where they get all that money to do it?
Many times it is the cost of the air ticket that determines the feasibility of the trip, but
now the travel industry has completely revolutionized by creating hundreds of sites for discounted flights, it doesn't take a miracle to understand how to find cheap flights, but just a little patience, cunning and a few tricks
In this guide I want to show you how I travel without selling a kidney...haha...maybe not
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The plane is about to take off
- If you want to find cheap flights, you have to be flexible
Usually when I travel with my boyfriend, we can always find the best prices.
How we can do it? ...Black magic? ... Super power? mhh..no!
We are very flexible, do we go in January, June or December? or do we leave on Sunday, Thursday or Saturday?
We leave when it costs less!
You will only need a flight search engine!
Being very flexible we can search for flights for a whole month. This helps us to see which days the rates are lower
We always use Skyscanner only. We select the "All month" option to choose the flight with the cheapest fare.
Of course, to be able to find low cost airline tickets - or at any rate at an affordable price - you will have to avoid the periods in which prices increase: -Holidays (Christmas, Easter, long weekends, special holidays) -High season (such as July and August) -Weekend (Friday to Sunday)
There are a lot of sites to look for cheap flights. That are sites that follow algorithms
(not understandable to humans haha) to compare the various prices from all the flight sites.
Some of the m
ost used are:
Skyscanner (In my opinion the best)
-Flight search: when to book a flight?
Here is another question that continues to whisk in your mind. In this regard, you can find many answers online and no certainty about which is the best one. According to a report from the Airlines Reporting Corporation, airlines tend to offer low-priced flights between six weeks and three weeks before the departure date: this would therefore be the best time to buy a ticket. After all, if we already have the certainty of wanting to visit a destination in a certain period of the year, why wait and buy a ticket at the last minute?
Better Tuesday
According to some urban legends from a globetrotter, the best day of the week to book a flight is on Tuesday, unlike instead of Saturday and Sunday when prices tend to rise.
Error-fare: what they are and how to exploit them
Make a mistake is human, to take advantage of it is a duty! Even airlines sometimes make price mistakes, and of course we will be vultures ready to take advantage of them! As these are errors, they remain online for a few hours. Fortunately, there are sites on purpose that collect these maxi opportunities for us:
Holiday Guru
The Flight Deal
Fly4Free
Secret Flying
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Signing up for the newsletter on these sites or on the websites of the various airlines can be a great way to not miss any offers!
Choose secondary airports
And this is a gimmick applied by various airlines, especially low cost airlines.
For example, flying from Amsterdam Schiphol will certainly have a higher price than flying from Eindhoven.
Sometimes choosing to leave from and to secondary airports can help us find cheap flights. Be careful though: this is not always a winning strategy, considering that the cost of the means to reach the airport must also be calculated.
Compare flight prices before proceeding with your booking to make sure there is tangible savings.
Cheap flight tickets? Browse incognito!
Have you ever heard of cookies? And no, I am not referring to cookies that are eaten for breakfast or a snack, but rather to those nice codes that are used to keep track of all the information we have searched for on the web.
Exactly one of the main threats of any traveler who wants to find out how to save money on flights. That Mr Google has the power to read our mind is no mystery now; have you ever found yourself looking for something, anything - from a destination to a restaurant to a brand - and finding a series of banners that advertise the exact same product by pure chance?
To try to rip off the system and not to chase cookies, I advise you to browse incognito, so as not to allow Mr Google to know your purchase intentions and not to allow any search engine for low cost flights or sites. of airlines to increase the price of the route you are looking for.
Travel with your hand luggage: less is more!
It is not always possible to fit everything in a carry-on bag, I know, but most low cost (and non-low cost) airlines charge checked baggage for an extra charge. If you don't necessarily need to travel with a suitcase, choose the hand luggage option and make the cost of your ticket even cheaper.
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