While it is easy enough, today, to search for air flights by comparing the prices of the various companies, it is much more difficult, however, to find real discounts and flight tickets at lower than normal costs . It is not always a matter of luck, sometimes in fact, depending on the type of flight, the destination and the company you choose, it is possible to save a lot on the ticket price with the right timing, making the search not too early and not too late, on a day of the week.
Furthermore, while for low cost airlines there is often a downward competition as long as you give up, for example, to carry a large piece of luggage to board or choose a less comfortable seat, for intercontinental and longer flights it can save a lot only in case of real offers to take advantage of immediately.
Finally, do not forget the real, albeit infrequent, possibility of errors in the price of air flights that could be purchased with very low prices for only a few hours.
To summarize, let's see here how to save money on flights and try to book at the lowest possible prices .
First of all, it is important to know how to find the cheapest flights to any destination in the world .
We have already talked about these sites to find the cheapest flight and the best travel offer, which are specialized search engines that can scan the rates of all the commercial companies and order them in ascending order, starting from the lowest price.
These sites are Skyscanner, the most famous and complete today and also Momondo.
You can also search for flight prices on Google, which provides very precise results just by looking for words such as " Rome Palermo " or " Rome New York ".
Flight searches should always be done on at least two or even three of these sites to see if there are any price differences detected.
For example, a site like Matrix is not the most beautiful one to use, but perhaps it is one of the most complete ever because in the price it also includes the estimated taxes, thus making it a real cost.
To find the best deals and discounts on flights, you should almost always do research on travel sites that also offer flight + hotel packages, such as Expedia or Kayak or even as Bravofly, very popular and Italian.
These are almost always holiday offers, perhaps lasting a week or in any case with an organized stay like the travel agency would.
A site that organizes offers well and that it would be a good idea to check every day to find what we like and be able to take advantage of it is Pirates on the road, Italian and really with good ideas for holidays at any time of the year.
Much more interesting, however, are the sites that deal with error fares, that is, the wrong, wrong rates, loaded on a site by human error or generated by a problem on the processing software of an airline or a travel agency.
Sometimes they are just mistakes on the base fare, other times, especially for long flights, it can be a reduced price for the lack of the fuel surcharge.
You may be surprised how frequent these errors are, so much so that even under-counter promotional campaigns are suspected.
However, they are always very limited, both in time and in the number of places available, so if you find one, you must always be super quick to book it.
The best sites where to find the wrong airfares, the error fares, are all foreigners and, precisely:
- Holiday Pirates, the site that inspired Pirates on the go, from which many of the offers are taken.
- Travel Dealz in German
- Guia Low Cost in Spanish
- Cheapflightslab
To finish the discussion on the search for the best possible flights, let's finally talk about when it is better to book to save on flights .
This is a speech that I had already done, in another article, discovering different tricks to book an airplane flight at the lowest possible price .
Today there is a very handy tool to find out when to look for and buy a ticket to save on the flight to a destination provided directly by Skyscanner.
You can therefore open this page and look at the graph that tells us, for example, how to leave Rome from Madrid for less in November and that you should always book 8 weeks before departure.
November is, in general, the most convenient month for almost every European destination, while February is more convenient if you travel to the USA, May and June to travel to Asia.
Looking at the graph for various destinations, you can do an average and find out that you should never book later than 5 weeks before the flight and that it is absolutely not necessary to save too early, as several months before, to save money.
Ideally, you should always buy your flight ticket at least 10 weeks in advance, up to 20 22 weeks in advance.
Obviously, having flexibility in the dates is essential to save on air travel and not only, also in the d estination to be achieved .
In SkyScanner, for example, you can search for a trip from " the city from which we want to leave " to Anywhere, to find the cheapest flights on the chosen dates.
For this purpose the Drungli website is also very useful, where you can only write the departure airport and the date, to see the prices of each destination in the world on the map.
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