We all want to pay less for travel.
Here are some tips on getting cheap airline tickets.
Be flexible with your travel dates and times.
When searching offline and online, request that you can depart at "anytime".
Cheapest days to fly is midweek on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with at least the weekend sleepover.
You want to make sure you return on midweek as well so you can maximize your airfare discount, since flying on the weekends is more expensive.
If you fly during off peak seasons it will be cheaper.
Also, avoid traveling on national holidays, depending on where you're departing from, so can also save money.
Plan months in advance, if possible.
Remember the closer you are to your departure date, it is usually more expensive.
The sooner you start doing your homework, you will increase your chances of saving more.
However, if you have to be somewhere important on short notice, there sometimes can be some 'last minute deals'.
Compare prices with travel agents, airlines, and online travel sites.
If you check online, use travel search engines like Kayak, for example, where it searches multiple travel sites at the same time to find the cheapest airfare.
Next write down the prices from the results pages.
Now call different airlines to see what prices they have and write down their prices as well.
After you keep notes on the airfare prices for both online and offline, contact a travel agent and ask them if they can beat these prices.
Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't.
If they are able to beat the prices, ask if the price quoted includes all the service charges.
You can even contact different travel agents and maybe some of them have better deals.
I also found out that you can save on airfare depending on which airport you depart from.
For example, I live in New Jersey and sometimes it's cheaper for me to fly out of Philadelphia Airport rather than Newark Airport.
You can save hundreds of dollars this way.
Sometimes you can get good deals from travel packages, if you buy airfare with hotels and car rentals, but it will also depend on what class of hotel you usually like staying in.
So look around.
Here are some tips on getting cheap airline tickets.
Be flexible with your travel dates and times.
When searching offline and online, request that you can depart at "anytime".
Cheapest days to fly is midweek on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with at least the weekend sleepover.
You want to make sure you return on midweek as well so you can maximize your airfare discount, since flying on the weekends is more expensive.
If you fly during off peak seasons it will be cheaper.
Also, avoid traveling on national holidays, depending on where you're departing from, so can also save money.
Plan months in advance, if possible.
Remember the closer you are to your departure date, it is usually more expensive.
The sooner you start doing your homework, you will increase your chances of saving more.
However, if you have to be somewhere important on short notice, there sometimes can be some 'last minute deals'.
Compare prices with travel agents, airlines, and online travel sites.
If you check online, use travel search engines like Kayak, for example, where it searches multiple travel sites at the same time to find the cheapest airfare.
Next write down the prices from the results pages.
Now call different airlines to see what prices they have and write down their prices as well.
After you keep notes on the airfare prices for both online and offline, contact a travel agent and ask them if they can beat these prices.
Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't.
If they are able to beat the prices, ask if the price quoted includes all the service charges.
You can even contact different travel agents and maybe some of them have better deals.
I also found out that you can save on airfare depending on which airport you depart from.
For example, I live in New Jersey and sometimes it's cheaper for me to fly out of Philadelphia Airport rather than Newark Airport.
You can save hundreds of dollars this way.
Sometimes you can get good deals from travel packages, if you buy airfare with hotels and car rentals, but it will also depend on what class of hotel you usually like staying in.
So look around.