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Thursday, April 16, 2009

6 Non resistible tips for Cheap Airfare during Recession

At the time of recession ,whenever we plan Airline Travel for holidays or family vacations, we always tend to look out for the best available and cheap Airfare in the market. Each one of us like to save money.
As much as possible wants to explore all the Airlines before finalising the ticket. There are many factors that determine the airline fare like seasonality, booking class or cabin, destination, duration of the stay.

As an airline expert , I would reveal the checklist that needs to be checked before the decision is made.

Here are the 6 non resistible tips that are must for any cheap Airline Travel :
1) Low Seasonality : All of us are quite familiar with the term low season. Low season is the duration when there is less air traffic or fewer passenger than the targeted. This is the time when the fare is quite low. If you are flexible with your dates then always check for the low season fare . The travel within these specified months can actually save money. Even traveling during the weekdays is cheaper than flying during the weekend as weekend travel attract some surcharge.

2) Advance Booking : Is Christmas or Easter the time when you want to visit to your family or wants to go to romantic destination ? If yes, then please as far as possible plan your vacation in advance. Get your reservations at least 4-5 months in advance. The pre booking of the flight would not only give you better and cheap Airline fare but also save last minute planning chaos.
Few people are so well planned that they even get their tickets done at least 1 year in advance

3) Dawn and Dusk : The time of the day that you decide to take Airline Travel also decides the airfare. Most of the domestic airlines give lots of discount if you are fine to travel early morning or after midnight. Its good to check these discounts before finalising your flight.

4) Weekdays over the weekend : As I mentioned earlier weekdays are relatively less expensive than the weekend. So if you are flexible with the dates then you should go for the weekdays flights rather than the weekend.

5) Duration of the stay : Cheap Airline tickets are often valid for less duration starting from 15 days or 1 month to 3 months/06 months. Lesser the days, the cheaper the ticket is. To make it easy, the ticket that allows to stay for 15 days would cheaper than the ticket that allows you to stay for 3 months. If you are flexible and know that you would be back after 15days then always select the cheap tickets which are valid for lesser days.

6) Check out special deals & Promotions : Always explore special deal on different Airlines . Recently there was promotional deal from European carrier where in you pay for economy class ticket and get free leg upgrade to business class. So you travel both in Economy and Business but have to pay for economy class only. Therefore its always worth to check any prevailing deal or promotion in the market.

Did you see that tweaking your flights, days of travel, seasonality can save lots of money . Better planning and management can do wonders. So keep saving money and keep exploring Airline Travel..

Have a Happy ,CHEAPER and a safe journey !!

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