10:41 PM Flexible dates means cheaper airfare | ||||
#search for cheap airline tickets # Cheap AirfaresGet cheaper fares by being flexible with your travel dates If you insist on traveling on specific days, you'll pay a lot more for airfares. But if you're flexible about exactly when you leave and return, you can get much better deals. This is our #1 tip for getting the cheapest airfare! It bears repeating: Be flexible, pay less. Sample fares we just checked:
Use the services below to get great deals when your travel plans have some leeway. Search EnginesMost search engines now do flexible-date searches. Here's how the different engines handle them:
Weekly Netfares Every Wednesday the airlines offer deep discounts on undersold flights for that weekend. Downsides: You usually have to leave on Thu/Fri/Sat and return on Sun/Mon, and your choices of cities are limited. As I'm typing this, the only trips available from Austin are Denver ($147) or El Paso ($87), but those are excellent deals for roundtrip airfare. Rather than having to visit each airline website separately, just go to Best Fares and choose the city you want to travel from. Then they'll show you all the deals from all the major airlines. Many of these are decidedly cheap. Of course, you can sign up at the individual airlines' sites if you prefer. Here are the links: Fare Alerts by emailLots of sites offer a "Fare Alert" service, sending you an email about low fares between particular cities. But you only need one, and Kayak's fare alert service is pretty good. Cheapest flights from your cityAirfare Watchdog lets you put in your departure city, and then shows the cheapest fares from there to various cities around the country and the world. Portals / Home PagesThanks for visiting, and I hope you liked the site. I'll leave you with a couple of hand-picked ads.
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