Save Money on Flights: When and Where to Buy
If you’ve got the itch to travel, now may be a good time to hop on an international flight for a lot less. With fewer people travelling for leisure, airlines have dipped their airfares and started offering great specials to entice people to continue travelling in these tough economic times.
With a little searching and a few pointers, you can travel for half the usual cost of any trip you have ever flown before. Flights to America are as cheap as $600 return, which is without fail the lowest they have ever been.
Qantas
is offering good prices on flights to New Zealand departing from all over Australia as well as return tickets to Singapore from Sydney, Perth and Brisbane for under $670. If you’re thinking about heading to New Zealand, your best flight deal will be the one to Queenstown as it’s usually more expensive to fly in there, and the flight above the alps is simply stunning.
Air New Zealand
is also offering low prices on one-way flights starting from $200, but be quick, the sale ends soon. They’re also offering an $890 return ticket to the US but the sale ends 1 July.
Virgin Blue
is offering good domestic packages as well as New Zealand ski packages and special deals on hotels near the slopes. Their best deal: Sydney to Melbourne for $59 one-way.
Air Asia X
Is a new airline and really shaking the industry up – we suggest you check them out on their website. They were offering trips to Malaysia for as little as $500 return including all taxes. Currently they only fly out of a select few airports in Australia though a little birdy has informed us that this wont be for much longer, as they have expansion plans in the making.
Tiger Airways
is hands down the cheapest, but don’t expect any frills. They usually have low airfares all year round and good specials. At the moment, they’re offering $200 one-way tickets to Phuket from Perth, and $160 one-way to Singapore. Check out their latest deals on their website.
Have other destinations in mind and want to check out up to the minute deals and airfare sales? Webjet is a great comparison website for both domestic and international flights, but also run the prices past the airline sites directly, you may get a better deal.
Another great way to save money on flights, and especially if you’re a frequent flier is to use your points to either upgrade, or redeem your miles for a flight. Zuji and Expedia are also great websites to book your flights and travel and usually have good hotel deals.
I find the best website for booking hotels overseas is www.latestays.com. They have a wide range of three to five star hotels around Asia and Australasia at really low prices, but as the name suggests, you’ve got to book last minute. But don’t worry, there’s plenty of hotels to choose from.
Where do you buy cheap flights from?
Tell us some of the providers you use below in the comment section, we would love to hear!
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2 Responses for Save Money on Flights: When and Where to Buy
If you are booking a flight and hotel, you might want to consider a vacation package from either an airline or a third party site like Expedia or Travelocity for extra savings. On the other hand, hotels have lots of empty rooms right now because fewer people are traveling, so booking last minute could find you a really great deal.
Thanks for the comment J.
Going into travel agents used to be a really good way of getting a good deal on your travels. Now days, it is more the convenience you are getting, as discounts and fares on the internet are much cheapers.
LastMinute.com and sites similar offer heavily discounted holiday and travel packages by selling accommodation and travel that people have pulled out of at the last minute.
