Airfare

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I am planning an upcoming trip to Florida for the end of October. I will be booking my flight through either expedia.com, travelocity, or a similar website to these.

I’ve been looking on these discount sites for some time and have noticed that the cost of airfare seems lower to book during the week and more expensive if I were to book during the weekend. Anybody else notice this? Anybody have any idea why?

Frank

David Faulkner asked:


Australia has always been a popular destination for tourists from all over the globe. But in recent years, the tourism industry has risen tremendously. A lot of the credit for this goes to the Summer Olympics that were held in Sydney in 2000. Since then, tourism revenues in Australia reach an impressive $10 billion each year.

So what makes Australia such a popular tourist destination?

Most of the tourists head to Australia to experience the world-famous Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, see the wildlife in the Kakadu National Park, and take a peek at the architectural splendor of the Sydney Opera House. Outdoor enthusiasts also enjoy the surfing at the famous beaches of Brisbane, Sydney and Cairns.

Many people wrongly assume that a visit to Australia is only meant for the more affluent traveler, as transportation expenses can be quite high. While this is generally true, there are also discount airfares to Australia that make it possible for practically anyone to visit this beautiful country – you just have to know where and how to look.

There are actually many places where you can avail of discount airfares to Australia. The most common is the Internet. In this age of technology, you can get almost anything you need just by a few clicks of the mouse. This includes discount airfares to Australia as well.

Tens of thousands of websites offer discount airfares to Australia. You have to be very discriminating in choosing which website you want to buy your tickets from. Many websites actually have scheming companies behind them who are using false advertising to lure customers into their traps. Most of the time, they are not displaying the real deal on their web pages.

In order to avoid being victimized by these companies, it is highly important to read all the fine print on the websites before submitting your credit card information to them to buy your discount airfares to Australia.

Another option is to go directly to the airline companies. They also offer discount airfares to Australia and other places in the world, but the savings you will get might be lower than if you purchased your tickets from a discount website.

Of course, if you want to stay away from all the hassles of preparing your trip, you can just pay a travel agent to do all the hard work for you. With most travel agencies, you can be assured that they will be able to find you great deals on discount airfares to Australia. All you have to do is unwind, relax, and dream of the fun time you will have down under.

Another thing you may try when looking for discount airfares is typing in various keywords, like wholesale, cheap, discount, special airfares. These different words may net you travel sites on the internet that you have never seen before that offer even better deals than those advertising on television. There are many ways to find discount airfares. The key is to know where to look as well as taking the time to research a few things. Time is precious so when we can find a site that we are happy with it is important to remember that for the next trip.



Ashley

Rob K asked:


Looking for airfare from chicago to vegas. Out on a friday night and back on saturday morning.

Jennifer

Rocco asked:


Going for three months: June thru August. Is there any way to do airfare for less than two thousand bucks?

Amy

Helen Hecker asked:


Here are some lesser known and best quick tips to help you find the cheapest airfare deal for your next flight. Today airfares are constantly changing in a dramatic way. When it comes to finding and getting the best deals, knowing how the air travel game works will make you a super shopper whether for business travel, personal or vacation travel.

One assumes that discount airlines always have the lowest fares. But that’s not always the case. While these low cost carriers can bring you some big savings, they don’t always offer you the lowest airfares. When you’re comparing prices from the various carriers you don’t want to forget to check out the airlines’ individual Web sites. Many times the airlines’ Web sites offer much better deals than the discount travel Web sites.

Make sure to calculate fees and taxes. Before you book your flight, make sure your air fare includes all the necessary fees and taxes. If your fare doesn’t include the fees and taxes, you may not actually be booking the least expensive airfare available.

Fees and taxes have always been part of the cost for air travel. Airline and government-imposed charges have risen sharply over the recent years, especially for international flights. Increasing fuel prices, fuel surcharges and security fees have made airline travel much more expensive. This can sometimes add up to more than the cost of your base ticket price, believe it or not.

Sometimes the closest airport to your home base does not offer the lowest airfares. Consider flying out of another airport that’s within an easy drive. Check the rates at any of the alternative airports. Depending on the airfare, it may be worth it to travel an extra hour or two to the airport to save you hundreds of dollars.

Fees will vary by Web site. The most popular travel Web sites differ widely in their airfares. Each travel Web site negotiates the best deals with the carriers and often has exclusive hot deals. Be sure to check the major travel Web sites as well as individual airline sites.

Airfares are a constantly moving target, with rates changing as much as several times a day. Ticket sales don’t usually last long. If you want to find the best airline deal for your business travel, personal travel or vacation travel, you’ll need to shop around.

Many people don’t know that their computer may be preventing them from getting the newest and last minute travel deals. Most Web sites use ‘cookies’, which are the text files that are placed on your hard drive by a Web page server. They tell the server that you have returned to a specified page and to go ahead and retrieve the information they have about you. This does simplify the process of recording any personal information you’ve divulged, such as billing addresses, but it also tracks the results that you were viewing.

This means that if you’re checking airfares and you go back to a previous Web site, the airfare search engine may return the exact results you looked at earlier rather than the newest results, because of the ‘cookies’.

You can take care of this by clearing the cookies on your Internet browser each time you do a search. Just go to tools, Internet options, then delete the cookies, delete the files and delete the history. This will delete your other cookies, files and sites that you’ve been to, which you may or may not want to do however. Get advice on this first if you haven’t done it before so you don’t delete anything you want to save.

Ask for the cheapest airfare deal. If you’re calling the airline directly for tickets, ask for the cheapest airfare or their last minute flight deals if that’s the case, not just the airfare for coach. There could, in fact, be a cheaper airfare that’s in a better seat!

Fly on the off days. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and sometimes Saturday are considered off days unless it’s close to a holiday. If you can fly on those days, you’ll be more likely to find a cheap airline deal.

Red-eye flights can mean great savings. Red-eye flights don’t sell out as quickly as the other flights and therefore may have cheaper air fares. While the red-eye flight isn’t the first choice of many travelers, it offers you an opportunity to sleep through the entire flight. And if you also go with a red-eye flight on an off day, you may find the cheapest airline deal possible!



Margaret

kristy833 asked:


On all of the airfare sites I’m seeing a lot of winter sales. I’m planning a trip to Europe in July and I wanted to know when the best time to buy those tickets are. Will there be sales for summer soon?

Harvey

Steven Liew asked:


If you are a youth and want cheap air travel, you should exploit at least the status fares in the airline industry.

Just like other so-called status fares in the airline industry, student airfares are one way of getting a cheaper ticket airfare in the industry.

Typically, student airfares apply to student travellers under the age of 26 who are still enrolled in school.

This is one avenue of cheap air travel especially for youths. For the airlines, they could offer such cheap air travel discounts without worrying that they would be abused by other passengers looking for alternative way out to pay the normal high-published airfares in the industry, given the restrictions on age and student identification.

Apart from the discounts which could be 20%-30% cheaper, student airfares are also generally far more flexible than regular airfare tickets.

Still, if you are looking for cheap air travel tickets via this route, note that student or youth airfares tickets may not typically be available from your regular travel agents.

This is because such student fares are not usually included in the computerised reservation systems (CRS) used by the airlines.

As such, it is easier for you to search for such airfare options from those specialised travel agencies that deal only in student airfare markets.

Remember that not all airlines offer student fares as a cheaper air travel option, and also that their rules and requirements varies from one another.

The most important requirement is normally proof of age (identity card or driving license) and also that you must be holding a current and valid International Student Identify Card (ISIC) at the time of ticketing and when travelling on a student airfare ticket.

Further note that student airfares will not necessarily be the cheapest airfares option that you can find even if you as a student can take advantage of it.

Nonetheless, for a cheaper air travel alternative, they will still beat the usual regular published airfares hands down.

However, if you are looking at cheap air travel options for international travel, you may find that consolidator airfares are often cheaper than student airfares, especially to a country serviced by ethnic-based travel agencies.

Further, there are less student airfare options than consolidator tickets, and the airlines are less likely to offer cheaper student airfares if they can sell them already under the radar as consolidator fares.

If you are picky and a real cheap air travel fan, then note all the alternatives above.

For the airlines, to offer student airfares is good publicity gimmick at the least and also a way to at least sell these status fares at whatever higher fare they could.

Further, much of students travel is non-discretionary and also time-limited and predictable or in other words around their holiday semester break.

Some of these periods like during the year-end and summer period are high-demand period (you won’t get other cheap air travel tickets options much during these times also) and as such, airlines are not likely to be too generous on discounted fares then.

Further, some thinking in the industry is that nice parents are more likely happy to pay higher airfares for their little darling children to go for their holiday breaks.

All the above reasons partly explain why the market for discounted student airfares are served mainly by travel agency specialists who use techniques such as bulk buying, charters and even consolidator tickets itself for such cheap air travel fares.

Still, for a cheaper air travel bill, student airfares are excellent value on their own although you should still compare their fares with other types of cheap air travel options for the reasons given above.

Here are some specialised places that you could start your student airfare searching and research from.These sites list special discounts and deals that are limited mostly to student airfares only.

It is possible also to locate student airfares that are discounted directly through the airline, or through a travel agent, but as mentioned earlier, the ones that are devoted solely to student airfares will often give you a lot more cheap air travel options on this aspect.

Further, if as student and you are thinking of travelling to Europe or other holiday breaks places for the summer, or for a full semester, or for just spring break, these specialised student airfare sites often offer great cheap air travel deals on such itineraries.

These specialised student airfare sites also have automated booking and ticketing of student and youth fares on their site and are a good place to start your search from.

Alternatively, you can search more of these cheap student air travel options through the Internet search engines:

a) Council Travel (www.counciltravel.com) – This is the travel agency division of the Council on International Education and Exchange (www.ciee.org) and has long been the largest student travel specialist in the United States.

College students will find here the biggest cheap air travel bargains on international carriers, which typically offer student fares to Europe on a standby basis. If you’re under 26, you can also take advantage of low-fare charter and consolidator flights that are made available by CIEE.

b) STA Travel (www.sta.com) – This is one of the world’s largest student, youth and budget travel organisation. STA Travel specialises in cheap student airfares, hotels and hostels, student travel insurance and international student identification cards and you are likely to find a host of options here and their affiliated agencies.

c) Student Universe (www.studentuniverse.com) – Student Universe is an online private travel service that specialises in students airfares. By negotiating with the major airlines on their behalf, Student Universe is able to provide students with exclusive and significantly cheap air travel fares catering to them.

At the end of the day, remember that irregardless of which cheap air travel options you choose, always compare prices between sites and their requirements before deciding on the final choice.



Dawn

Muna wa Wanjiru asked:


Looking for the best airfare lowest in price can mean a search through many different airlines unless you have a fixed amount of money that you are willing to spend.

The other factor that can make the number of flights less overwhelming is the place that you are traveling to. This factor can help you greatly as some airlines don’t have any flights that are known to travel to that place.

When you have narrowed this field down quite considerably you can then start looking for the right airfare lowest deals and quick departure times. Besides looking at the various airlines to give you the airfare lowest price deals you can look to see what airlines are traveling to that country.

With these facts you will be able to see if any of these airlines have times and dates that are in line with your travel plans. Once you have found these facts to your satisfaction you can begin looking for airfare lowest holiday package deals and other items that will make your holiday a success.

These items plus the airfares with relatively low prices can make your travel plans much easier to think about. To look for this initial information you may want to use the internet. This facility will allow you to see what the current airfares are like. From the internet pages and links you can see the various airfare lowest deals that are within your budget.

Having obtained all of this information you should see if your travel agent will be able to provide you with the various airfare lowest deals and travel information that will help you with planning your holiday. You should get all of the relevant information that you need before you pay for your airfare.

When you have the information and you are looking to pay for the ticket you will need to double check and see if your airfare lowest possible price deal is stated on the payment form. The final payment should be made only when all of these details and items have been thoroughly checked out.

While there are many different prices that you can pay for an airline ticket sometimes looking for the airfare lowest in price can save you money. This extra saved money can then be used for spending purposes on your holiday. These types of benefits make looking for airfares lowest in price but high in value very attractive for the regular frequent flyer.



Anne

nikkirileyvass asked:


For one week. What can I except to spend for airfare to Puerto Vallata from Boston? Is $555.00 a good price? Or should I wait.
For one week. What can I except to spend for airfare to Puerto Vallarta from Boston? Is $555.00 a good price? Or should I wait. The dates for the trip are October 8th-October 15th. Give or take a day or two.

Randy

David Faulkner asked:


When people dream of traveling to exotic locations around the world, very rarely is the city of Timisoara mentioned. People are more interested in going to Venice, London, Paris, Berlin or other tourist destinations in Europe. But Timisoara, although relatively lesser known, also offers sights that are as enthralling and a history that is as rich as any other European city. If you avail of discount airfare to Timisoara, you will find out for yourself the beauty of this Romanian city.

Timisoara is actually one of the major cities of Romania, and is also the center of the textile and chemical manufacturing industries of the country. When communist rule ended in 1989, the tourism industry in Romania improved dramatically. However, the current government hopes to encourage even more tourists to visit the country, and this is why several companies are offering discount airfare to Timisoara.

If you decide to get discount airfare to Timisoara and explore the secrets of Romania, you will definitely not be disappointed. In fact, you might even be surprised at how wonderful this place really is.

You will be able to witness the grandeur of the medieval Transylvanian castles and the historic monasteries of Bukovina, as well as the gorgeous peaks of the Carpathian mountains.

For those people who prefer more sports and adventure, there are always skiing and hiking activities on the slopes of the Carpathian. You can also opt to enjoy the cool waters and the sandy beaches of the Black Sea. Many people also like to go birdwatching on the Danube delta region.

There are actually many activities you can do in Romania. Getting discount airfare to Timisoara will definitely give you more funds to spend in other leisurely activities.

Acquiring discount airfare to Timisoara is actually very easy. All you have to do is go online and type “discount airfare to Timisoara” on a search engine and voila! – you will be faced with hundreds of websites to choose from.

Some of the best websites that offer discount airfare to Timisoara are Travelocity, Trip Advisor, and 1800FLYEUROPE. These websites will provide you with many different flights with discount airfare to Timisoara. Some prices will be higher than others, and it is important to read all the pertinent information to make a better comparison.

It is usually much better if you can plan your trip to Romania at least 2 months ahead. This way, you will have more chances of getting discount airfare to Timisoara at a schedule that is convenient to you.

Before purchasing a discounted flight ticket from a website, it is advisable to personally talk to one of their customer service representatives instead of just corresponding through email. In case you need to clarify some things, it is much better to discuss matters with an actual person rather than just sending an electronic message.

The amount of money you can potentially save if you get cheap discount airfares can be quite considerable and can be channeled towards other expenses. Finding cheap discount airfares is a lot easier now than it was a several years ago. However, the process can still be rather time-consuming.



Nellie