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If you are planning a travel adventure but you are working with a small budget, there are a few tips and tricks you can use to get cheap flights. The price of an airline ticket is usually one of the biggest expenses of your trip, so if you can cut down this cost it will make a major difference! Here are some clever tips to keep in mind when you are booking cheap flights:
Be flexible with your dates
Sometimes the same flight can be considerably cheaper on a Tuesday than on a Saturday, so if you can be flexible with the date you fly it is possible to find great deals. Research from ARC, the Airlines Reporting Corp, suggests that the lowest fares are on Sundays and Tuesdays and other studies say that Thursdays and Mondays can also be cheap days.
Book the red eye
Flying late at night and arriving at a yawn-inducing hour of the morning can be a pain, but red eye flights at inconvenient times are often cheaper than other flights. If you don’t mind being tired or if you can sleep well on planes, it’s an option to consider
Use a clean browser
Did you know that some airline websites use dynamic pricing, which means that they offer you a higher price if they can tell that you really want a particular price. If you have returned to the website and searched for flights to the same destination before, you might notice that the price of the flight will increase when you come back later. However, if you use an Incognito Window on your Google Chrome browser or clear your cookies, the website will not recognise you as a returning user and will offer you the lower price.
Set up an alert for cheap flights
There are many websites, such as Skyscanner and Kayak, which will allow you to set up an alert on a specific flight so that you will be notified if it changes in price.
Check out the best time to book
Skyscanner has a very clever Best Time to Book app that will show you when the best time to book your flight will be. Usually you will find the best deals around eight weeks in advance, but it is different depending on the destination.
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Keep these tips in mind and you will be on your way to your travel destination for much cheaper than you expected!