a) Enrich with Information
There are a number of web sites for online air tickets reservation. You should study them and learn what benefit you may have if you buy a ticket earlier or if you collect it late. You must pay attention to the provisions furnished in those web sites, provisions stating the prices fixed or flexible for different airlines and for different seasons.
b) Advance Booking
Most of the airlines fix the price of the tickets in such a way that the travelers are benefited by paying considerably less if they purchase the tickets well in advance, at times as earlier as six months.
c) Just Buy and Board
Fortune sometimes favors one who waits till the last moment in collecting an air ticket. You must have patience and you must have learned to digest the obvious tension caused by the delay.
d) Search and Search
It is always better to study and verify and compare the prices displayed by different airlines web sites. One should not get tired or one should not surrender to restlessness. Rather if you wait and go on viewing the changes it is possible to win a reasonable price within your budget.
e) Favor of the Season
You should keep in mind in which season the travel is to be taken. Cost of the air tickets are the lowest in the winter in Europe. Web sites will tell you which of the seasons to your target country/region attract fewer travelers. But let it be clear to you that demand for flight in the afternoon and in the evening right from Tuesday through Thursday is usually less. Hence, then the air tickets are naturally cheaper.
f) Airlines
Air tickets for the airlines of the underdeveloped and developing countries are cheaper. They are cheaper even for the domestic flights. But for an international travel or for a travel by the airlines of the affluent countries the cost will be higher. Of course, there is definite difference in the level of comforts.
g) Discounts
You must go through the details of the international discounter airlines. Yes, there are discounts airlines. Discounts are there and you must not miss it.
h) Refund
You should take care to note that if the prices of the air fare have gone down after you have bought your ticket. There are a few airlines which have provisions to refund the difference. But you will have to claim.
If you have enough leisure and if you can change your flight programs following the options available and if you can rearrange your itineraries, it is possible to lower your air travel expenditure happily.
