6 Ways to Buy the Cheapest Airplane Ticket An airplane ticket for $5 seems to be nonsense
but not when you know how to search! Here're some unusual ways to find the cheapest option.
At the end of the video, we’ve included a list of the best search engines to help
you buy an airplane ticket for the price of a movie ticket!
The best time to buy • The 60-day rule works perfectly. Look
for your flight not later than 1.5 to 2 months before the trip.
• Buy tickets on dates from mid-January until early March.
• Try to purchase your tickets on Tuesdays between 2 and 4 pm.
• Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons are when the ticket prices are lowest.
• If you’re planning a weekend flight, it’s best to buy your tickets on a Friday
night or Saturday.
Airline system failures No price calculator is perfect, and sometimes
they malfunction. This usually happens with complex flights.
It’s not a law by any means — more of luck. It’s almost impossible to buy a ticket
to the city you need with the help of a system error, but it’s perfect for a spontaneous
vacation. The website airfarewatchdog.com has a "Top
50 Fares" section that is updated daily. Another site, secretflying.com, posts a selection
of system errors daily. Better follow it on Facebook and Twitter to stay updated.
And holidaypirates.com has an alert system for holiday and weekend deals and particular
airports of departure.
The 24-hour rule Check the same flight the next morning after
you’ve booked it because search engines often set filters to default and may suggest
cheaper options. If the price is lower, you can cancel your booking and re-purchase your
ticket. In this case, you’ll have to pay a small fee depending on the airline and booking
platform. Check out Yapta.com to track prices for a particular flight and to change tickets
if you need it.
The cheapest airlines They are otherwise called budget airlines,
and their policy is the best price you can get.
Ryanair, one of the most popular budget airlines in Europe, is well known for its crazy discounts.
Recently it said that its flights might become free before 2020!
How to use budget airlines’ features (using Ryanair as an example):
• Inspect the price chart of your airline. The cheapest tickets by Ryanair are 54 and
10 days before the flight. • Avoid popular cities. If you want to get
to Paris, don’t select its central airport: go with Champagne-Ardenne or Vatry whose prices
are much lower. • Use other search engines too, rather than
only the low-cost airlines as they track budget airlines and system errors. However, don’t
forget to check the airline companies’ websites — on rare occasions their fares might be
lower.
A hidden city feature This one is well known to experienced travelers:
they hide their destination in the middle of the route.
If you need to get to Istanbul, don’t rush to book a direct flight. Sometimes, a flight
to Rome with a transfer at Istanbul may be much cheaper. What a sneaky hack!
Cheap ticket search engines Their job is simple: to analyze the prices
among hundreds of airlines for the route you need and sort them by price, date, time of
flight, number of stops, and other factors. Here is a list of the most popular ones.
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