Whenever you sit down on a plane, there’s a good chance that the person sitting next to you paid far less than you did. This isn’t always because they booked early or had a travel agent find them a deal, it’s normally because they know a few easy tricks to save money on flights.
Dariece and I have been travelling for 7 years and have taken many flights in that time.
Our experience has taught us some severe money-saving tricks. In this article, I’m going to share my secrets with you to make sure you can board your next flight with the confidence that you found the best deal possible.
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1. use The ideal Booking Engine
By using a booking engine with the ideal features, you can save some severe money on flights. depend on me, not all flight booking sites are created equal. A colleague of mine recently introduced me to JustFly.com. This site has all of the features that make a terrific flight booking engine.
Just Fly is a flight aggregate service like Google Flights & Kayak, but it also uses price adjustments and purchase guarantees. Their overall mission is to sell the least expensive airline tickets possible, assemble the most advanced team of travel experts in the world to help customers make the ideal purchase, maintain an efficient and technologically stable platform and innovate the market while not imitating any other service.
This site works like a lot of other booking engines, but allows you to choose the most popular flights with the shortest flight times and the least expensive price. It also shows you alternative dates so if you’re flexible, you can save money by flying on a different day.
The site also has a terrific support team that can you can actually call to ask for help. That’s something I haven’t really seen before and is a feature that would be terrific for beginner flight bookers.
2. clear Your Cache
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, any time you’re booking flights you must clear your cache or search in incognito mode. flight booking sites can be evil. They track customers returning to the site time and time again and they’ll actually jack up the price to try to urge buyers to make a purchase.
This is urgency marketing at its best (and a lot of annoying), but thankfully you can avoid it with a few quick clicks of the keyboard. simply follow the instructions in this post and search for the same flight again. If you’ve been tracking the flight for a week or two, the airline or flight booking site has been tracking you too.
After clearing your cache, you’ll likely see a price that’s $50 – $200 cheaper. just look at what we saved on a recent flight from Costa Rica to Cuba. We saved $125 / ticket ($250 total) just by clearing the cache.
This is the same exact flight searched on the same exact site within seconds of each other. The top image is with a cleared cache!
Note: Clearing the cache is different for every browser, here are instructions for the most common ones:
Google Chrome
internet Explorer
Firefox
Safari
3. Book At The ideal Time
According to a 2014 study conducted by CheapAir.com, the optimal time to book your flight is 48 days (about 7 weeks) before your proposed departure date. There is a lot of dispute surrounding this hack, but CheapAir’s study was pretty detailed and from experience I can say that I agree with the results.
If we book our flight too early, we typically see the prices go down closer to, while last-minute bookings are nearly always a lot more expensive. try to start searching for flights 48 days before departure, book it and stop looking after that… enjoying prices change can drive you crazy!
4. Book flight & Hotel
Have you ever noticed that you can choose to book your flight with a hotel on a lot of major flight booking engines? What you may not have known is that by clicking this tab, you can access secret savings that are only available to those who book their flight as a package with accommodation.
I’m not talking about booking an all-inclusive holiday or a excursion package. All you have to do is click the “Hotel+Flight” tab and book a hotel with the flight. seems easy enough right?
On a recent sample booking we conducted on a flight from Vancouver to Bangkok, we saved over $100 on the flight cost by including a hotel in the booking. and you can choose a low-cost hotel and only stay one night as well. These are substantial savings.
5. use Your best rewards credit scores Card
You shouldn’t just use your rewards card for flight booking. You must use it for eVeľmi možný nákup. Používame kartu TD First Class Travel Visa Infinite* na všetky naše nákupy a získame 1,5% späť v bodoch za každý cent, ktorý sme umiestnili na kartu. Úžasné je, že ak si rezervujeme s Expedia pre TD, dostaneme 3x body, ktoré skončia o 4,5% späť v cestovaní.
Dokonca aj tie najlepšie americké karty dostávajú iba 3% v cestovných odmenách, takže Kanaďania môžu raz tvrdiť, že majú najlepšiu kartu kreditných skóre na cestovanie (zvyčajne sú karty kreditných kariet v USA oveľa lepšie).
Za túto kartu zvyčajne platí ročný poplatok 120 dolárov, ale ak otvoríte all-inclusive bankový účet v TD, túto kartu získate zadarmo. Ak utratíte 2 000 dolárov mesačne na vízum v prvej triede, do konca roka budete mať odmeny v hodnote viac ako 1 000 dolárov, ktoré môžete minúť za cestovanie.
Táto karta je iba pre Kanaďanov, ale veľa krajín má celkom dobré odmeny. Pre Američanov si pozrite tento príspevok od spoločnosti WiseBread, v ktorom sú uvedené najlepšie karty kreditných kariet pre cestujúcich.
Zarezervujte si inteligentné a ušetrite peniaze
Nemusíte byť odborným cestovným hackerom, aby ste ušetrili peniaze na letoch. Ak niečo z tohto príspevku odoberiete, musí to byť vždy vyčistenie vyrovnávacej pamäte prehliadača a rezervovaných letov pomocou dobrého karty na kreditné skóre cestovného ruchu. Tieto dve základné veci vám môžu doslova ušetriť tisíce dolárov za rok pri cestovaní a rezervácii letov.
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