When planning a trip, the cost of the flight is often quite a big expense. How to save on air tickets so that you have more money for the trip itself? The most important rule is to plan your flight in advance, which will allow you to fly away much cheaper, and besides, you will buy tickets exactly for the dates that you need, and not for those for which there are tickets left.
Instructions
Step 1
The easiest way to save money is to fly with cheap airlines, the so-called low-cost airlines. There are practically no such in Russia, but if you make international flights, then there are many more options. True, they usually fly only in Europe, so you cannot buy a ticket for a flight from Russia from a European low-cost airline. There are two low-cost airlines in Russia, these are Avianova and SkyExpress. On the websites of these airlines, you can buy very inexpensive air tickets, but you need to buy in advance, preferably 1-3 months in advance.
Step 2
All airlines run special offers or sales from time to time. Here you can get up to 50% of the ticket price. The most important thing is to be able to intercept such an action in time. Here, too, benefit comes to those who plan ahead. If you have already decided where to go on vacation, then subscribe to the news of all companies that fly in the direction you need, and as soon as the promotion appears, immediately purchase tickets. The sale may not last very long, even 1 day, so it is useful to set aside some money for tickets in advance. Special offers sometimes appear even a few days before the expected flight dates, so even if you are not looking for tickets in advance, in any case, start your search for cheap flights with this.
Step 3
There are collection sites that collect information about sales and promotions from the Internet resources of many airlines. In order not to browse dozens of sites every day, you can use such collectors.
Step 4
Look for tickets not only for a specific date, but also for an additional few days before and after. Often, cheap tickets are for flights in the middle of the week, while on weekends it is much more difficult to find a bargain price, and if it appears, they are sorted out instantly. It may be cheaper for you to take a vacation for a couple of days at your own expense, but fly on a promotion than to fly strictly on weekends on expensive tickets.
Step 5
If you don't find cheap tickets, but expect sales or discounts closer to the season, although you are not sure about this, then you can buy the most profitable tickets available with the option to surrender them. Then you will have tickets in any case, and if more profitable options appear, you can always exchange them. Buy new tickets first, and then return the old ones, otherwise you may be left without both.
Step 6
An option where sometimes you can get there cheaper is to fly with a transfer. Not always, but it happens that connecting flights are half the price of direct flights.
