10 ways to go on holiday as cheap as possible:
Buy tickets on Tuesdays and fly on Thursdays.
Think travel is now too expensive? Yes, you just do not know how to cook them!
Think travel is not affordable for you anymore? You just do not know how to cook them! Vacation and now can be quite budget. Read the advice of experienced travelers, experts of Internet search engines Skyscanner, Momondo and the online service DaTravel.com. And most importantly - do not regret the time to search and do not be afraid of unexpected offers.
1 . Buy plane tickets in advance.
The cheapest plane tickets go to those who book them 29 weeks before the trip - that is, 7 months. In this case, you can save 12%, calculated in Skyscanner. Do you have a vacation in September? To get a profitable fare, you need to book tickets right now. Most ruinous, of course, is to take tickets right before departure - they are 15% more expensive than the average price.
2. Start your search not from airline sites, but from aggregators (meta search engines): skyscanner.com, momondo.com. They collect offers from hundreds of airlines and ticket agencies, sort them according to different criteria (price, departure time, number of connections), and then redirect you to where the ticket is sold.
3. Return tickets are usually cheaper than round-trip tickets separately. But not always - low -cost airlines (low cost carriers) simply add up the price of two segments. Punch through the search engine all the options and compare.
4. Tuesday afternoon - time to make a decision.
Ticket prices for all international flights are linked to the euro. The course changes once a week, on Wednesday night. The Central Bank rate is rounded up to 50 kopecks: say, the ruble exchange rate to the euro is 77.07, for air tickets - 77.5. The course becomes known on Tuesday. See the euro fall? Wait Wednesday, tickets will be cheaper. And vice versa: if the ruble sank, it is more profitable to buy tickets until midnight.
5. Keep track of air ticket sales.
Demand has now fallen heavily, airlines are trying to fill the board with special offers. Subscribe to the newsletter about promotions on the websites of airlines. On the Skyscanner website, there is a “price change notification” feature to email. At Momondo - another useful thing: a visual chart of prices for different dates on the desired route. When you can move the trip for two or three days, it really helps to save.
6. Fly on working days.
On flights from Monday to Thursday tickets are cheaper than on the weekend, they say in Momondo. Flying on Friday and Saturday is 25 - 30% more expensive.
7. Take a vacation in the offseason.
Well, if you can plan trips without regard for the children's school holidays, you have a flexible vacation schedule. If you fly to the resorts in the second half of November, the ticket will be 18% cheaper compared to the average price per year (this is Skyscanner data). It is profitable to fly also in the second half of January, in February, March (with the exception of the holiday weekend), October.
8. Look for tickets to ... another airport!
The price of a flight depends not only on the distance, but also on how many airlines fly along the route, on its popularity, on airport fares .... Tickets to Krasnodar usually cost almost half as much as to Gelendzhik . Thrifty vacationers fly there, and then go to the sea by bus (4 hours on the way, a ticket costs about 300 rubles).
And European distances when Russians were frightened! Tickets to Frankfurt or Berlin can be noticeably cheaper than in Hanover , for example. A couple ofhours on the train, bus, car - and you are there. Of course, this option makes sense, if the difference in price is significant - you will spend money on the train and bus, too.
In Asia, will help numerous low cost airlines. The Internet search engines when choosing a route, you can put a tick in the "Airports nearby" window, and then you will have a more complete picture.
9. I want to go to the sea, but you do not know which of the resorts you can afford?
A convenient feature is on the Skyscanner portal: in the “ where ” column you can choose not only the city or country, but also “everywhere”. The search engine will show the price rating in different countries. And you will understand what your budget is enough for.
10. Fly with transfers - usually such tickets are 30 percent cheaper than direct ones. Only at the time of docking pay attention. A couple of hours at the airport? A good opportunity to stretch your legs. Long dock by day? Even a plus: you can go to the city. But long nightly transfers are only hotel expenses or torture in the waiting room.
The cheapest plane tickets go to those who book them 29 weeks before the trip - that is, 7 months. In this case, you can save 12%, calculated in Skyscanner. Do you have a vacation in September? To get a profitable fare, you need to book tickets right now. Most ruinous, of course, is to take tickets right before departure - they are 15% more expensive than the average price.
2. Start your search not from airline sites, but from aggregators (meta search engines): skyscanner.com, momondo.com. They collect offers from hundreds of airlines and ticket agencies, sort them according to different criteria (price, departure time, number of connections), and then redirect you to where the ticket is sold.
3. Return tickets are usually cheaper than round-trip tickets separately. But not always - low -cost airlines (low cost carriers) simply add up the price of two segments. Punch through the search engine all the options and compare.
4. Tuesday afternoon - time to make a decision.
Ticket prices for all international flights are linked to the euro. The course changes once a week, on Wednesday night. The Central Bank rate is rounded up to 50 kopecks: say, the ruble exchange rate to the euro is 77.07, for air tickets - 77.5. The course becomes known on Tuesday. See the euro fall? Wait Wednesday, tickets will be cheaper. And vice versa: if the ruble sank, it is more profitable to buy tickets until midnight.
5. Keep track of air ticket sales.
Demand has now fallen heavily, airlines are trying to fill the board with special offers. Subscribe to the newsletter about promotions on the websites of airlines. On the Skyscanner website, there is a “price change notification” feature to email. At Momondo - another useful thing: a visual chart of prices for different dates on the desired route. When you can move the trip for two or three days, it really helps to save.
6. Fly on working days.
On flights from Monday to Thursday tickets are cheaper than on the weekend, they say in Momondo. Flying on Friday and Saturday is 25 - 30% more expensive.
7. Take a vacation in the offseason.
Well, if you can plan trips without regard for the children's school holidays, you have a flexible vacation schedule. If you fly to the resorts in the second half of November, the ticket will be 18% cheaper compared to the average price per year (this is Skyscanner data). It is profitable to fly also in the second half of January, in February, March (with the exception of the holiday weekend), October.
8. Look for tickets to ... another airport!
The price of a flight depends not only on the distance, but also on how many airlines fly along the route, on its popularity, on airport fares .... Tickets to Krasnodar usually cost almost half as much as to Gelendzhik . Thrifty vacationers fly there, and then go to the sea by bus (4 hours on the way, a ticket costs about 300 rubles).
And European distances when Russians were frightened! Tickets to Frankfurt or Berlin can be noticeably cheaper than in Hanover , for example. A couple ofhours on the train, bus, car - and you are there. Of course, this option makes sense, if the difference in price is significant - you will spend money on the train and bus, too.
In Asia, will help numerous low cost airlines. The Internet search engines when choosing a route, you can put a tick in the "Airports nearby" window, and then you will have a more complete picture.
9. I want to go to the sea, but you do not know which of the resorts you can afford?
A convenient feature is on the Skyscanner portal: in the “ where ” column you can choose not only the city or country, but also “everywhere”. The search engine will show the price rating in different countries. And you will understand what your budget is enough for.
10. Fly with transfers - usually such tickets are 30 percent cheaper than direct ones. Only at the time of docking pay attention. A couple of hours at the airport? A good opportunity to stretch your legs. Long dock by day? Even a plus: you can go to the city. But long nightly transfers are only hotel expenses or torture in the waiting room.