Cheap Flights Article Discussion

Puffin74

Check out Ryanair as they do fly all over - if you can juggle your flight dates as normally you can find a cheaper flight if you're flexible. Cheap flights, cheap service ok for short haul - just don't get caught out on baggage!

lovetotravelcheap

Wauw, great tips.
I am searching for a cheap flight to Zagreb, i checked cheaptickets, it's a good one. I heard that paperflies is a nice site to check out cheap tickets, does anyone know that site? Maybe I can find some tickets on ryanair as well. If you have tips, help me out please!

Marivanna

Hi,

Would anyone care to share when is the best time to buy Ryanair tix?

xx days in advance? Say, if it goes down 32 days in advance - shall I wait little longer or?

Thanking you in advance

Alan_Bowen

There is no real secret, if you want to travel at peak times, book as early as you can, if you want a Tuesday flight in the middle of November, you can afford to leave it later. If you want weekend flights they go faster than midweek but ultimately it depends on demand. If no one is booking the flights you want, the fare will fall, this happened in the summer of 2013 when Ryanair got its early pricing wrong so I think they learned their lessons and are even better at using computer analysis to work out expected demand and the point at which people book. If by 32 days in advance you mean Christmas and New Year I would expect prices to only go one way from now on

davholla

Alan_Bowen wrote: »

There is no real secret, if you want to travel at peak times, book as early as you can

Not always true I booked last November to go to South America in the summer. If I had booked in February I would have saved about £100 (although I still booked at the cheaper end). There is an element of luck, for off peak 6 weeks in advance is meant to be the optimum time
http://www.priceoftravel.com/1410/flights-are-usually-cheapest-4-to-6-weeks-before-departure-heres-why/

BTW Momondo and some other scrapers do have price predictions.

eyeamthu1

Hi - quick question --
I'm trying to book some flights to the US in August. There are a few options, but some British Airways flight prices have confused me. Booking via British Airways direct appears to come up with about £650rtn per person.
However, if I search thru Skyscanner, the exact same BA flights are coming up for about £430rtn per person - these are available when I click through to a third party website, such as bravofly or gotogate.
Seems too good to be true that these are over £200 cheaper?? What's the catch? Is there any problem with booking via these third parties?

Caz3121

eyeamthu1 wrote: »

However, if I search thru Skyscanner, the exact same BA flights are coming up for about £430rtn per person - these are available when I click through to a third party website, such as bravofly or gotogate.
Seems too good to be true that these are over £200 cheaper?? What's the catch? Is there any problem with booking via these third parties?

Suggest you read the reviews of any 3rd Party site you may be tempted by and you will realise there can be a lot of issues
The most common being that 3rd Party agents often do not display live prices so when you book your £430 return they will take your money and then contact you to advise that the £430 fare is no longer available and the fare is now £x extra. You have the choice to pay the extra or wait to try and get your £430 refunded (and some of them deduct a cancellation fee so you end up paying £20-£100 to have nothing)
Some use other peoples FF miles to book flights, against the rules of the programs. Many posts of people turning up to check in to find their flight have been cancelled
Note that the 3rd parties that are listed on Skyscanner, Kayak, Tripadvisor etc have not been checked out by them, they pay to be displayed and will go in at a price to show as the cheapest and suck you in
Have a search over on tripadvisor air travel forum for the agents you have mentioned....you will run a mile

buglawton

I clicked from a search in Skyscanner to step 2 and found I was in Traveltrolley. It was a bit late in the evening and I'd thought that Traveltrolly was Skyscanner's own 'shopping trolley'!

Traveltrolley wanted a name and credit card details but were offering no upfront explanations on how long it takes to get the eticket, whether the purchase is ABTA or ATOL bonded, no info on luggage allowance, nothing. So I declined.

Few mins later got a call from Southall Travel trying to get me to complete the purchase - they'd acquired my number from my uncompleted purchase form! In the end I paid £50 more to buy direct from the airline. This gave an instant eticket and now I had a single point to return to in case of questions/changes/extra luggage.

So I suggest ignore the newbie posts above that are dropping air ticket agent names.

em_z

I'm after multi City flights next December, hoping to do Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland then back to Manchester. Planning to travel around Dec 13th til around Jan 11th. Am I best booking flights on release, (which will be in the next couple of week) or waiting for a sale? Gut is telling me to book straight away but I've heard prices often drop a couple of weeks after release?

jojeba

There are six of us travelling together for a wedding on the same flight (although two of us are coming back on different dates)... Is booking in a group beneficial for fare discounts in any way? I am sure the answer is no, but wondered if anyone knew of something I'm not!