The question of finding cheap air tickets invariably arises before independent travelers when organizing a tour. And there are some simple solutions that seasoned air passengers use from trip to trip.
Airline promotions and discounts
Often, air carriers themselves make very lucrative offers to their customers in the form of special promotions and discounts on tickets. Some companies even offer to book a hotel or a car for rent together with booking flights at low prices - a kind of travel package with a bargain price.
It is necessary to track such promotions on the websites of airlines or in their public pages on social networks. It is also very convenient to subscribe to the newsletter on the carrier's website in order to receive timely messages about the launch of new promotions and special offers.
Tickets for charter flights
Charter flights are launched specifically to carry exclusively tourists from one or more tour operators. They fly with the established regularity: once a week, on two, three days, etc.
Initially, the cost of air tickets is included in the finished tour package of a particular operator. However, sometimes travel agencies offer air tickets for charters as a separate service, or, due to the lack of demand for a particular flight, they sell hot tickets in order to at least recoup their flight costs.
You can buy such tickets in the offices of tour operators, in their authorized travel agencies or on special websites like charter24.ru, allcharter.ru, etc.
Tour packages as an alternative to airline tickets
Oddly enough, but sometimes buying a tour package, which, in addition to the flight, includes transfer and hotel accommodation, is much cheaper than booking air tickets yourself. For example, in Thailand, the time from May to October is considered a low season, and during these months the cost of vouchers drops sharply along with a decrease in demand for them. If a tourist travels for a couple of weeks, and the cheapest round-trip flight costs 30 thousand rubles, and there are tour packages for 25 thousand rubles, is it worth, in principle, to independently organize such a trip? In this case, contacting a tour operator will be a reasonable alternative to finding cheap flights.
Where can you follow all the offers of air carriers?
Today there are many sites that are air ticket booking systems - aviasales.ru, biletix.ru, etc. However, there is an even more convenient option for selecting flights - skyscanner.com. With its help, you can track absolutely all existing offers of the aviation market around the world. The portal does not offer ticket sales services, but gives users a redirect to booking systems with specific offers.
