There are two conditions in which you travel, either you pre plan your trip or you are compelled to travel due to some unforeseen circumstances. In both cases you try your best to get a best deal on your air tickets. Nowadays you do not need to visit travel agents' offices to buy tickets and you can book your airway tickets online right from the comfort of your home or office. You can log on to the travel portals of well-known travel management companies or the Websites of individual airlines and book your tickets instantly without much hassle.
Websites also offer discounts, special packages and other promotional offers from time to time, all you need to do is to keep a tab on the various web portals and book according to your convenience. I don't mean that you have to keep looking at the websites every other living second of your life, you could sign up for alerts and best deals from different travel portals and continue to receive notifications and special offers in your inbox. You will also have to do a bit of home work in comparing prices. Yes, one more thing that needs attention is that you have to keep your travel schedule as flexible as possible, that is because flexibility helps you in scoring cheap tickets.
You can also book your ticket in the middle of the week as it has been observed that the prices of the tickets usually skyrocket on Fridays and Sundays and are cheaper in the middle of the week i.e. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Most of us think that buying too early can somehow help in bumper savings. You should bear in mind that booking a ticket too early can actually turn out to be counterproductive, as the airlines only start releasing cheap tickets until 3-4 months before departure in case of domestic travel and 4-5 months before international travel.
Now, the travelers that get their airlines ticket onlinein a bit of hurry need not feel dejected. You can take an advantage of the timings and get cheap deals for yourself. It is observed that the cheapest time to fly is typically in the wee hours of the morning and late in the evenings. Yes, you will definitely have to compromise on your sleep but it can hardly be helped and the principle of “no pains no gains “is applicable here too. Travelers with more strict schedules and narrow time frames can make use of their miles or rewards points. Although very rare, some airlines do provide last minute deals on round off trips, but such instances occur very rarely and it would be a little risky to count on the options like these.
Nguyen An Tra My
Martin Wynn
