How To Find The Best Deals on Airline Tickets

How To Find The Best Deals on Airline Tickets

 

Prices for airline tickets drastically go down during the months of January and February, once the holidays are over. This is when people are more likely to cut back on their spending, which makes the perfect time for finding great travel deals. So if you’re ready to do some traveling and have a few extra bucks to spend, pack your bags!

  1. Follow the Airlines on Twitter and Facebook

Low airline fares are offered for only a few hours at a time. To grab a great deal on airline tickets follow the airlines on Twitter. Check your Twitter feed throughout the day because cheap tickets can be announced any time of day or night. If you have just one or two destinations in mind, you may end up waiting forever. But if you’re prepared to travel to wherever you can get a great deal on airline tickets, you’ll most likely start the New Year by going on vacation!

  1. Sign Up to Receive Alerts

Go to AirFareWatchDog.com and sign up for their fare alerts. They also have a newsletter they email out with information on cheap flights departing from your closest airport.

  1. Search Travel Websites

If you are flexible as to where you travel, then check out sites like Skyscanner, which allow you to choose ”everywhere” for the destination and select the date you want to travel, you will be given the least expensive options available. You can also search ”everywhere” on Kayak.com using its Explore feature. It will then show you a map with the cost to fly to specific destinations. From there, you’ll have your pick!

Check out Good Flight Comparison Websites to find the best sites.

  1. Know Precisely When to Buy

Don’t forget that if you travel on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday, you will automatically have lower airfare. Fridays and Sundays happen to be the busiest days for travel; therefore they are the most expensive. If you fly on a red-eye or on the first flight out in the morning, you will also save money, followed by flights at lunchtime and during the dinner hour.

Discounted air fares are uploaded to the travel sites at 3:00 p.m. ET on Tuesdays, so this is the very best time to buy airline tickets.

 

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