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You can use Mobissimo to find the best offer.

Excluding flight costs from our programme fee, we enable foreign students to find the best fares according to their own individual schedules.

Excluding flight costs from our programme fee, we enable foreign students to find the best fares according to their own individual schedules. However, flight costs may differ greatly based on the time and type of booking, your itinerary, your destination and other considerations.

Please note a few hints before booking: Are you considering to add face-to-face trips before or after your itinerary! Several of our Working Abroad programmes have their own starting and ending times, but that doesn't mean your overseas adventures have to begin or end at the same moment! A lot of travelers are planning a trip before or after their itinerary.

Widening the windows with possible trip data can help you find better offers. Comparing airfare rates by entering multiple records into your preferred trip finder. A few allow you to browse within a set of trip data with calendaring functions, making it easier to compare rates. Kajak.com, Skyscanner.com and StudentUniverse.com are just a few pages that offer great value flight options, but no matters where you do your first research, do your research and compare airfare.

The use of tourist agencies or subsidiary reservation pages to buy a flight could facilitate the reservation procedure, but could also entail additional charges. Do you know that a flight finder is not necessarily a reservation page? Kayak.com, for example, looks for free flight tickets, but to make a buy you will eventually be redirected to an airlines website or another website such as Priceline.com.

Most importantly, be clear about all charges and guidelines - especially cancellations or alteration charges - of the carrier and the services you use to make your flight reservation. One way or round trip? Do outward and return journeys always cost less? Make sure that you perform several search operations - first for the outward and return journey, then for two one-way journeys - to compare.

If your programme needs a passport, ask the relevant embassy or consulate whether a return flight is necessary. In addition, you know that some airline companies decline to let you in with just one one-way pass - even if you have a current one.

Are you interested in purchasing a one-way fare ticketing service, you should definitely call the carrier to see if you have any issues. When your schedules are inflexible, you may do well to look for departures to or from another location. At the end of their programme, many Working Abroad members would like to include a one-to-one travelling period, which means that departure from your arriving country might not match your route.

You can use the multi-city feature on airlines' web sites and find your way to and from different destinations in one reservation. Though you could be spending a little more on accommodation and either surface transport or a low cost carrier, if you feel like adding a face -to-face trip to your programme, this might be a good choice for you!

Make a long flight with a stopover or two? For a few nights in a stopover town, it may be a good idea to book two return trips - one between New York and Los Angeles and another between LA and Sydney, Australia (instead of New York and Sydney with a stopover).

Although this does not always lead to lower rates, it is a good idea to consider this if you have reasons to do so.