How to buy cheap air tickets online?

More and more tourists want to be independent from tour operators and travel agents, and independent travel always begins with the purchase of tickets. Today we'll talk about the correct finding and buying a profitable airline. I do not pretend to be full of information, but maybe someone will help it purchase tickets at good prices and save on air travel.

To begin with, that the only correct prescription buy cheap flights   no. The dates of sales are different from airlines, offers year-round exit, depending on the evenness of load boards, and other factors (here is all depends on the work of marketing services airline) tickets themselves at good rates "to the people" produced little. How is it that "catch" chip flights ?

The first and easiest step is to find tickets to the so-called systems, compilers, such aviasales.ru, skyscanner.ru and similar. These systems, like a funnel, collect offers and airlines booking site (onetwotrip.ru, trip.ru and the like) and are price from low to high. Convenient compilers that when searching for the passenger immediately see the range of values ​​for a ticket on the route and can choose the site from which it is more convenient to make a reservation. In these systems, you can choose only direct flight or flights with transfers, set the range of a few days in order to compare prices.

Why are the prices on the same flight on different booking sites different? It depends on the contracts with the airlines, sales (much booked from this site - above loyalty to the airline at a contract extension), and just appetites owners (fees may vary greatly and affect the price). According to my personal observations, the most interesting are the prices on the already mentioned onetwotrip.ru, trip.ru, has often praised momondo. But then you just have to compare and consider all the nuances.

In the transition from the compiler directly on the reservation site, you will see already the final cost of the ticket. I must say that it may vary in the compiler prices. This happens for various reasons: the compiler can keep on the relevance of the information online reservations may incur additional charges, or simply it is likely that tickets for the declared rates has come to an end. The peculiarity of this flight - all have access from anywhere in the world (including the booking office and travel agencies), and because highly dynamic. Seconds before someone buys a ticket, and all prices are already popular with you and there, and on the sites of "alas, tickets at this price is not found, try changing the search."

In such cases, try to move the date, sometimes crashes on Friday at the week-end are much more expensive than the departure on Sunday. It is the policy of the airlines, they also need to maintain profitability. And if they see that on Thursday-Friday, planes loaded with more - why should they lower prices? The same applies to high-known date - New Year's festival dates (eg Oktoberfest), children's and student holidays (especially if you're talking about tickets to Europe).

And this policy appears Practice passengers - planning and buying tickets much in advance. There is an unwritten rule, "think about the New Year in the summer, about the summer - in the New Year."

Already in February, tickets for the May holidays at a good price can be taken easily. But in the late summer or autumn - please. Some enthusiastic every day check the price and when they see an attractive rate - just take tickets. But you need to just have enough money on payment card, otherwise then the price can be changed dynamically. There are travelers and those who "catch" is not a specific country, namely tickets and then decide - if he wanted to go there or not.

It should also be understood that the low tariffs, even for six months prior to departure, the airline launches "for the seed" to start shipping the board. And there are all the plane tickets can not be, you need to buy them immediately, or buy other. In order not to miss the special offers, subscribe to the same compiler. The electronic box is, of course, loads, but use is obvious. Also offers you can "catch" the airline directly. Most often, the fall publish their offers Russian airlines, for example, S7, Aeroflot. Perfectly promote your site and fares airline Emirates, Qatar Airways, on flights that can reach up to distant points of the globe - Africa, Australia, French Polynesia. Of course, to regularly review compilers, and airline booking website - it is work and time-consuming, but it is well worth it!

When purchasing tickets, especially for super-tariffs, pay attention to the conditions of the return and exchange. Most often, for the opportunity to purchase a profitable airline flight exhibit more severe penalties. Assess the risks - as to whether you will be given on the holiday, and tickets will not have to take? If necessary - return for a ticket to the card is carried out from 3 to 60 days, but not immediately.

Another risk self-purchase tickets - delay, cancellation, replacement of the flight, etc. With self purchase for any questions you one on one with the airline. No travel company, no ticket office will not be able to help rewrite the ticket for the next day or flight, to warn the postponement of the time of departure, make a quick return for a ticket. And no one is going to care that you do not have access to the Internet anywhere in Bora Bora, and you are not proficient in English. Over independence should be held accountable.

Nuances and have self-purchase tickets on difficult routes. Some sites provide the ability to specify different cities of arrival and departure (for example, the route Moscow-Johannesburg-Cape Town // Moscow). But there are not very many, often book is designed for simple route (eg, Moscow-Prague-Moscow). And if you are flying in the same Cape Town at the Emirates and want to stay in Dubai for three days, without a good aviabiletchika you can not do. On booking sites you simply will not be able to set the desired date and breaking up the route into sections lead to higher ticket prices. The same goes for long journeys, krugosvetok (when flights covering more than one continent) - in this case a good aviabiletchik on hand will help you choose the best fares on the route and dock flights optimally.

I note that it is conducted on regular flights and tickets on open sale. Some seats on these flights, is given by the tour operator companies and units in the open market of the move can not be bought. This also applies to charter flights, for which all entirely responsible travel company-customers. But such tickets can be bought, for example, websites and block charter flights (allcharters.ru, chartex.ru et al.) Or in a travel company. "Words" such tickets can be notoriously low date - immediately after the New Year, after the May holidays, between the high dates for summer destinations winter (for example, on the coast of Italy in February). Usually, they are sold for a few days before departure (when it is clear that the tour package will not be realized), and the presence of Schengen multivisa can be very handy when buying such a "burning" a ticket to the same Europe.

And finally - the current special offer from Delta Air Lines in the US! Sales period until 4 March 2013 Travel period from February 1 to June 30, 2013 Cost of tickets (without taxes and fees): New York - 115 euros; Miami - 269 euros; Los Angeles - 279 euros; Boston - 259 euros; Chicago - 279 euros.

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