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The Lightest Way To Travel, Cheap Airline Tickets

Posted by Malcolm Reed

Traveling lightly does not only mean the absence of excess baggage. It could also mean traveling light heartedly because your travel is light on your budget. So help you have that light hearted travel, I have compiled a few tips that will help you get those sometimes hard to get cheap airline tickets.

1.) Be fully aware of what is going on with the airfare wars. You can do this by looking for promotional fares from major airline companies in the news, newspaper or magazines. Usually new airline companies give out very low airfare as a promotional strategy. Always be alert since these cheap fares are for a limited time only.

2.) Don\’t be adamant with your flight schedule. Try to be flexible with it because there are days, such as Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday when tickets become cheap. Also the time of the day matters as well. Cheap tickets can also be acquired if you travel late nights or very early morning. Another thing is, one stop flights are usually discounted.

3.) When it comes to the other areas of your travel such as transportation and accommodation, inquire whether the airline offers discounts for car rental and hotels should you book a ticket from them.

4.) When speaking with the airline reservations clerk, find out whether the stated fare is the cheapest, and inquire about other options. Now, if you are using the web, don\’t just check one airline website but try to compare their prices with another airline company.

5.) Standby fares for off season fliers tend to have discounts as well so inquire about it. Standby fares are often hard to acquire during peak season because airlines overbook and spare seats are hard to find.

6.) To help fill up all available seats in an airline, consolidators buy tickets in blocks and sell them at a discount. If you check the newspaper\’s travel section you will find \”Ticket Consolidators\” in that section. Make sure to purchase from them.

7.) Booking earlier the better. A 21 day advance booking will often lead to discounted fares. For November and December or months where airlines tend to overbook, make sure to reserve months ahead. Take not that frequent flier miles may not be used during holiday \’blackouts periods\’

8.) Stick with the same airline for a round trip to avail of their discounts.

So there you go, cheap airline tickets, one way of traveling light heartedly. Bon Voyage.

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