How to find Cheap Plane Tickets

Find cheap airline tickets

Whether you're traveling in late or early September, here's how you can get away for less from Matt Kepnes, creator of the nomadicmatt.com blogs and New York Times bestselling writer How to travel the world for $50 a day (TarcherPerigee). The majority of aircraft finders do not contain every carrier, so you will need to review several.

"There is no such thing as a perfected aircraft searching machine. Find and buy tickets always as a stand-alone traveller. Air carriers usually have the highest fare for a group of passengers. If you are travelling as a couples or small families, buy individual tickets and then choose places close to each other during the ordering procedure.

To get the best fares and best airfare choices, buy tickets six to eight week before your trip. Booking three month in advance is recommended if you wish to go in high seasons. Subscribe to the airline's newsletter because it contains offers that are not on the website.

Finding cheap airline tickets while we travel long distance

Perhaps the aerodrome from which you want to depart is not the best in regard to affordability. We made a boxing stop in the US for a Oklahoma weddin' season. Our plan was to go to Thailand the next morning after the marriage, which means we had to find out where to go.

From Oklahoma City to Thailand were far too costly. From Dallas, the flight was a little better. Houston flight was astonishing - less than $400 per capita. As we would still be in Oklahoma on the Sunday we wanted to go, we had to find out if it was really profitable to go to Houston to save this additional time.

Otherwise we could have just gone back to Dallas (where our families live) after the marriage and started flying from there. Excavations showed that it was a few hundred dollars less expensive to travel from Oklahoma City to Houston and then Houston to Thailand than to travel directly from Dallas.

Not only did this additional OKC to Houston save us a 3-hour trip, but it also helped us save some cash, as the option would have been to go back to Dallas to take a plane. So just because you're in a town doesn't mean you have to get out of there.

It is often less expensive to find a good shop wherever you go from any town, and then find a cheap plane to that town. We' ve seen so many instances where we have been saving tens of thousands of dollars like this. Consider: where you can get cheap airfares (especially international) by getting out of them instead of going from a small town where you are (unless you obviously reside in one of those big hubs).

Odds are that if you're travelling from a small or local aerodrome, you'll be in a turnstile anyway (if you're travelling internationally). These tickets can be very costly. However, purchasing a fare from your town to the hubs and then a fare from that hubs to your destinations can significantly reduce the cost - especially if you hire a low cost carrier such as Frontier, Spirit or Ryanair to travel to that first hubs.

Only to bring this point home, take a look at these genuine airfares. The first one I searched with Google Flights for tickets from Oklahoma City to Chiang Mai, Thailand: