Online flight booking | International flight booking, Flight booking secrets
My name is Arun! I am a travel blogger, in the past few months I have traveled to Bangkok, Bali, Cape Town, London, and Munich all over the world. Because we travel so much, I developed a booking technique that saves us a ton of money every time we fly. In the past year I have booked almost one hundred flights online. And I’m going to share all me tricks with you today. Not only am I going to show you how to book cheap economy and coach but also how to get cheap business class and first class flights. Using the tricks I am going to give you today you are never going to overpay for a flight ever again. So if you are wanting to save money on airline tickets or trying to put together a luxury vacation - this article is for you.
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When talking about how to fly cheap there are a few factors that you have to consider.
One of them is where you are traveling from and where you are traveling to and how flexible are you with your departure airport and destination airport. The second thing is how flexible are you with your date of travel. The more flexibility the easier it is to find cheap airline tickets. Another key factor to finding cheap flight is actually to find the best booking sites. But really the secret to cheap flights is combining all of those factors into one magic booking strategy. If you want to fly cheap you’ve got to be smart. So as I mentioned flexibility when booking airline tickets is one of the key factors in actually succeeding in finding the cheapest flights. That in term means finding the best booking sites means finding the most flexible booking sites. There are some good options out there like flights.google.com or kayak.com. They let you enter 3-5 departure air ports and 3-5 destination airports and you can be fairly flexible on the travel date. But for what we are looking for that is not good enough.
Now I told you the more flexibility you have the cheaper
your tickets are going to be. So what I’m going to do is I am going to see what
airports would be OK for me to depart from and which airport would be OK to fly
to. The software actually has a great tool built right into it. If you go here
and click on nearby next to Miami you can see which airports are located in a
vicinity of 75 miles. No you can set that value to anything you want. I am
going to go to - let’s say - 200 miles. So right there it is showing me a ton
of airports. And I am going to say Ft. Lauder dale is OK for me West Palm Beach
is OK for me. Bahamas not so much. Alternatively you could just select all
airports if you like. Let’s give that a bash.
So now you see it brought in all
the airport codes right into this field here. Now let’s go to the destination. Now
I now Vienna in general is a very expensive airport. So let’s see what
alternatives we have. Now because it’s Europe there are a ton of airports you
could fly to and the trip from that airport to Vienna is only going to be very
short. Train fares are very cheap in Europe so that’s a good alternative. So
just to try this out I am going to select all again and bring this to my search
field. As now as I said I am fairly flexible on this trip. I don’t have any set
dates where I have to be anywhere I can still plan ahead which you also should
do when you are planning avocation.
Al right that went faster than I thought I didn't even have time to get my espresso. But now the computer has shown us a calendar of cheapest fares. And look at that - now we have a price of $612 vs. $1,025 that’s a 40% that’s more than 40% discount to the previous. So now I can just go and click on this airfare and it will show me which airport it actually picked out for us. But now when I look at that in detail the price went down even a little bit more. The cheapest price we have right now is $572 that almost $500 cheaper than the regular fare we found. Now the airports its showing me is flying from Miami to FCO and FCO is actually the airport in Rom, now Rom is just a little bit too far away, I think the train ride is somewhere between 6 and 7 hours. I am not really going to want to travel that far away so let’s look at the other option sit shows me. Right here I found a flight for $712 from Miami to Prague and Prague is just 2 hours away from Vienna. So that’s perfect.
So if I book this ticket I've saved a ton of money on this flight. Now let’s say the airports that you picked dare too far away you can always still go back and modify your search a little bit. You can delete the airports and define airports yourself. So you can say I want to go Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa for example. And destination airport I want Vienna, Munich, Salzburg. We can increase the flexibility by a little bit. Just to get a cheaper flight. So here he seems to have found a flight for $699 let’s see where that’s from. Excellent so this flight is from Miami to Prague and then back again from Prague to Miami.
There are still a few options you can look into. There are different flight times, there are different stop overs, and there are different airlines. Just pick whatever you like most or which is the most convenient for you. And then you click on the price. Now this going to bring up a page that has the summary of all the booking details, all the flight details. But you can't actually book your flight on this website. What you are going to have to do is either try and fined the flight with these exact dates on flights.google.com, kayak.com or Expedia.
You could try going to your local travel agent and booking it with them or what you can do is I have another super cool tool it’s a second website which is called bookwithmatrix.com. They way this works is you take your fare code which is in here. You just click anywhere on the website press ctrl+a on a windows computer copy everything you selected and paste it into this website. Now this is going to show you the whole flight itinerary and you can go and book this flight with price line directly. So once you have done that put in all your details on the booking site, book your flight and - you know what for that money that you saved on that flight invest more in your hotel or invest in food or invest in good drinks or coffee.
You could try going to your local travel agent and booking it with them or what you can do is I have another super cool tool it’s a second website which is called bookwithmatrix.com. They way this works is you take your fare code which is in here. You just click anywhere on the website press ctrl+a on a windows computer copy everything you selected and paste it into this website. Now this is going to show you the whole flight itinerary and you can go and book this flight with price line directly. So once you have done that put in all your details on the booking site, book your flight and - you know what for that money that you saved on that flight invest more in your hotel or invest in food or invest in good drinks or coffee.
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