How to Buy Cheap
Flight Tickets
Many people will think about traveling to
other countries for vacation, yet it costs a lot and the prices of plane tickets
make up a significant part of traveling costs. Let’s look at some ways of buying
plane tickets at a lower price.
Discounts are offered when purchasing tickets in advance. However,
be cautious because there are usually high fees for canceling or changing the
tickets once you buy.
2. Last Minute Tickets: Tickets just before the departure date
You can also buy tickets at a low price, if you buy them just
several days before departure. Airlines offer
discounts on extra tickets just before departure. There are some websites that
advertise these last minute tickets. (항공땡처리) http://www.072.com/, (땡처리닷컴)http://072air.com You must notice,
though, that you can rarely change the time or date of flight after purchase.
Plus, chances are very low that there are any last minute tickets in busy
periods.
3. Websites Comparing Ticket
Prices
If alternating
the departure time is not available, how about using websites that compare the
prices of each airline? Let’s use ‘Kayak’ website (http://www.kayak.com) as an example.
First, check
what kind of flight you want: round-trip, one-way, or city-transfer ,
and then fill in departure, destination, date, the number
of people, and the cabin. After that, it will list all the possible tickets. You
can use sorting ‘lowest price to highest price’. In addition, you can check the
conditions such as airports, cabin, transfer, and time from the left of the
page.
For example, I looked up the flight from Seoul to Paris on 7/12, which is a week after of today. I also choose only Economy cabin and one-stop. The lowest price is 612$ from Aeroflot airline. It depart on In-Cheon Airport at 1:10 am and arrive on Paris Airport at 8:55 pm via Moskva Sheremetyevo Airport.
In addition, if you try changing the time range, it shows the price chart of each time.
There are other similar sites like Expedia(http://www.expedia.co.kr/), or
Cheapflights (http://www.cheapflights.com)
4. Low-cost Airlines
The last choice is buying at low-cost airlines. Probably, you have heard about Low-cost airlines such as Jeju Air, Jin Air, Tway Air, Air Busan, or Easta Air. However, notice that most of them cover short-distant flights. When asked on flights that depart from Korea, possible destinations are countries on East Asia, such as Japan, China, the Philippines,and Indonesia, as well as cities in Korea. Nonetheless, as they are low-cost, seats can be somewhat smaller and service may not be as good as the regular ones.
With
above 4 ways, buy plane tickets on discounted price and enjoy your travel to
other countries! :
