We all know that feeling we're sitting at home scrolling through Instagram and we find our dream travel destination. But when it comes time to book tickets, it's too expensive! don't worry we're here to help:
In this article, I am going to share a bunch of tricks and hacks to get you the cheapest flights possible. So let's get started!
1. Enter flight aggregators: These are websites or apps that search the entire internet to find you the cheapest possible flights for whichever destination you're trying to fly to. So get ready to bookmark these pages and download these apps:
Kayak: It's a good place to start because it's simple design lays out fares from around the web and allows you to easily compare against other search aggregators such as Travelocity or Expedia. The explore option basically allows you to put in your budget and your interest and find flights to places you didn't even know existed.
2. Be flexible with your destination: let's say that you want to go to Costa Rica for your trip but flights are much cheaper to Panama. why not go there? give it a shot and oftentimes the different destination is switched not even that big of a deal could be like two different cities within the same country. Book your ticket with Delta Airlines Reservations to make your travel more comfortable.
3. Check out Google flights: It has evolved a lot since it was first released a couple of years ago. Now it includes a really cool discovered destination feature, which literally allows you to find places you would never have actually traveled to before. It does save you money but more than anything it shows you cheaper alternatives like broadens your horizon.
Now it is Google so it's a really thorough search engine. it's going to get you a lot of great results very quickly. One of the best features is this track prices feature, essentially allowing you to know when the price is going to go up or if it drops.
4. Fly on the holidays: It is one of the cheapest options to travel because the planes will be empty and you will get a much cheaper fare. Nothing like celebrating Christmas at 30,000 feet, but honestly if you go this route this is where the website sleepinginairports.com is super helpful. You can buy flights in the horrible departure times and the website will help you find the perfect bench where you can curl up and sleep until your flights are ready to go. It's just like crowdsource, nap spaces, Wi-Fi plugs, and everything.
5. Book flights quite early prior to the departure: Flights are usually at their cheapest around six weeks before departure. If you're not quite sure when to buy using the app called a hopper, which gives you a notification when it thinks the prices are going to go up or down.
6. Use Skyscanner to compare prices: Skyscanner is one of the first aggregators and is super useful worldwide. Where it brings together budget airlines such as Ryanair and EasyJet. Skyscanner is not exclusive to Europe; you can find cheap airfare in North America and Asia as well, but just keep in mind that they tend to do Europe right.
7. Do booking on the airline's website: No matter where you find your fare, you should always try to book it directly through the airline. Especially to its budget airlines, which don't always post their cheapest fares to aggregator websites. Honestly, sometimes it's better to just pick up a phone and speak to an airline representative. Chances are, they can match the price that you found online or give you deals that haven't yet been published. So here is a roundup of the cheapest budget airlines around the world:
For transatlantic flights make sure you check out Norwegian Airlines. It's a no-frills budget airline that offers flights from LAX and the West Coast United States all the way to a year for just a few hundred bucks.
Another great airline is Wow which also offers a bunch of flights to Europe but would they stopover in Iceland which could be a great trip in itself. So if you're planning that Game of Thrones pilgrimage, maybe just fly with Wow. Go to Iceland, spend a couple of days fighting off the White Walkers, and then continue on your merry way to Europe.
Within Europe, you have EasyJet and Ryanair, which have fared for under 10 euros. Just be careful, because they do have baggage fees and there are some hidden costs. Another thing to watch out for is the location of the area of the airport. For example, if you fly to Barcelona, sometimes they'll fly into Girona. Which is a great city and is just an hour outside of Barcelona.
For the United States, check out Virgin America, Spirit Airlines, JetBlue, and Southwest which offer flash sales from time to time. For Canada TriWest jet, for Latin America, we recommend the Airlines lon and Avianca.
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