FINDING
A CHEAP AIRFARE
Bargain
Power in finding the Cheap Tickets
Searching
for the cheapest airfare to a given destination takes a little work.
Large
travel services like Expedia, Travelocity
often
have as cheap a fare as the rest with some variations, Priceline has
stopped charging booking fees. Vayama – focuses
of international flights searching over 100 airlines for fares with an
interface for selecting multiple destinations.
Aside
from convenience the big sites can package air and hotel for a some savings
and have more robust dispute resolution. Searching
after midnight may yield some cheaper seats closer to departure
date as some
reserved but un-bought seats are released and Tuesdays tend to be a good
time to search for lower fares.
Some
sites list the fare as separate from taxes and fees. If a fare looks
really low check to see if taxes and fees are included. Those
low fares you see
in ads in the paper are often without taxes and fees.
UK based Skyscanner is
the tracker of Europe's discount airlines.
If it doesn't matter to you what airline you fly on, you can make a bid on Priceline. But know that if you bid too much below the going listed rate you're most likely to get a counter offer. It's usually cheapest to fly roundtrip to hubs, and each airline has its own hub, so depending where you're going will determine which carrier will have the best deal. And if you have a date you want to travel, but can adjust your days, try bracketing departure days, a ticket on a Sunday might be double the fare of a Tuesday flight.
EUROPEAN BASED DISCOUNT
BUDGET AIRLINES
Air
Berlinis now Germany's second largest airline with international
flights to Germany primarily through their hub in Dusseldorf and to many
European destinations.
Virgin Atlantic has some of the best deals from US to London with comfort in every class.
German
Wings is a discount carrier with price structure similar to Ryanair.
For a bonus city on a European trip, try flying KLMfrom
through Schipol and have a 20 hour layover in Amsterdam
(less
than
24
hours is no extra cost) and add a city to your Europe trip before flying to
your destination city..
Sometimes it may be worth it to fly to an airport a little
distant from your ultimate destination and take the
train with a railpass
if you're
going to be utilizing rail for other parts of your trip. Some airlines
are now offering fares to fly into one city and out
from another at the
same fare as a hub round trip, so check the mulitple-destination
interface. Or take a low cost airline to a secondary
airport. You can check low
cost
discount airlines carriers like RyanAir and Easyjet (see Budget
Discount Airlines Beware RyanAir baggage
limits).
You can check flight wholesalers like DiscountAir for cheap airfairs. Students and teachers traveling
may want to check deals offered by STA Student
Travel.
Many of the search engines and ticket providers
are all searching the same data base of published
fares and some
of the larger travel services
can block out tickets for themselves. You may find many
of the cheap
flights
promised by wholesalers and discounters are
not that different than the majors, since many
are just selling the same
ticket.
But spend
some time and you may find that cheap gem that
makes you feel you own the world! © Bargain
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See Also
BUSINESS AND FIRST CLASS AIR TRAVEL DEALS
RULES FOR HAND CARRY-ON LUGGAGE IN EUROPE
NEW
SFO DIRECT FLIGHTS TO EUROPE
AIR
BERLIN / DUSSELDORF - TWO CITES FOR ONE
