When it comes to holidays, pretty much always, the journey there costs more than half.If you do your research and are flexible, there can be some great flight deals.
It has been well-proven that travelling on a budget doesn’t equal to spending long hours on poorly ventilated buses, or sleeping with chatty bunk mates in musty hostels! Here are some money-saving hacks that will guarantee you will have a superb trip without breaking the bank!
Use a Travel Credit Card
Travel credit cards offer ways to rack up points and miles that make airfare, hotel stays and other travel costs more affordable, so which card is best for you depends on what features and benefits are most important to you.
If your expense profile leans towards that, you should also look at co-branded credit cards from airlines and hotels: typically, they come with discounts that offset their annual fee.
Most travel cards provide their own booking portals that allow rewards to be redeemed for flights, hotel rooms and rental cars (sometimes even baggage fees!), so long as you use the card responsibly and get the most out of it without overspending.
Book Early
After all, flights don’t have to be expensive. A little bit of advance planning and flexibility in your schedule can mean huge savings on flights; money you can then use for opulent restaurants and accommodation on a trip.
The general rule here is that if you want to get cheap prices for domestic flights, book six weeks in advance, and three months if you are booking an international trip, but don’t be surprised if the price changes quickly as you are ready to pounce on a great deal!
Sites such as Going (formerly Scott’s Cheap Flights), Fare Deal Alert, The Flight Deal and Secret Flying track fare swings on paths flown frequently, or are expected to soon, and can be worth following for ideas on where to go, as well as deep discounts (often so steep that a short-haul flight is conceivable on a plane with free in-flight meals – only joking). Some will even offer fare alerts when the price of specific flights drop below a set threshold. Additionally, a keen eye can help when it comes to knowing when and how much a flight should cost, as well as signs that a discount may be imminent.
Book Multiple Tickets
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If you decide to head abroad, we recommend you follow the Flight First Rule, which occurs consistently: when planning a trip, the flight is the first purchase we make, and the cheapest is always the ticket. We have been saving a great deal of money on plane tickets for years this way!
For hot destinations or peak travel seasons, prices can vary subject to staggering margins. So travelling on less popular days can dramatically cut costs. ‘I was watching a fare from Portland to Vegas,’ Keyes says, ‘and it never dropped below $407 – but when I moved my dates up [by two weeks], I found almost the exact same fare at almost half off!
Look for Last-Minute Deals
Air fares change all the time; if you’re willing to be flexible about destinations and dates, you can still nab some amazing last-minute discounts.
Flying at an earlier or later time, or from a different airport, can greatly reduce ticket prices; any number of sites now allow searches of flexible dates.
You can also save money by booking flights as part of a hotel/air package, especially when staying during high-season times.
Book a Round-Trip
Travellers will often find that booking flights round-trip is less expensive than buying two separate one-way tickets, because airlines offer discounts for combined bookings of flight, hotel room or rental car.
Plan your international or domestic airfares close to departure. Enjoy the flexibility because airfares change by the day, often by the hour, and if you’re willing to adjust, you can save hundreds of dollars.
Email alerts for inexpensive flights are widely disseminated by sites such as Going (formerly Scott’s Cheap Flights), Secret Flying and The Flight Deal, which monitor price fluctuations and notify subscribers of bargains. For the more frugal souls, whose senatorial aspirations are less influential in the marketplace, travelling mid-week (to Tuesdays and Wednesdays in particular), when departures and arrivals are least convenient – I’m talking mid-morning and early evening – during off-season and off-holiday time-slots, is advised as a sure way to save.
