How To Book Cheap Flights To Anywhere In The World | Travel Tips & Tricks

Booking flights while travelling on a budget is the most important factor which can effect your travelling budget. Flights consumes most of the budget while travelling (domestic or internationally) and finding cheap flights to your destination is really a hard deal.
We’ve all experienced the boredom, unwnated issues, repeated searching when trying to book the cheapest possible flights and air fare to any given destination. With endless search engines, booking sites and repeatedly fluctuating airfare prices, the approach to frugal flight booking is mind-boggling.


But,don't worry The Budget Travelogue brings you with some travel tip and tricks on finding cheap airfare & booking cheap airline tickets and will guide you how to book cheap flights to anywhere in the world while travelling on a budget trip.

1. Some Myths About Cheap Flight Bookings

Yes, you have heard of various basic myths and beliefs about booking cheap flights. In fact, you’ve probably come across alot of them on your search to find the best airfare deals. They are all lies.

Here are the most common beliefs about cheap flight  booking :-

• It is cheaper to buy airfare on a Tuesday or on Weekends.
• That searching in incognito mode leads to cheaper deals and airfare.
• Use only airline websites to book.
• You can’t predict airline prices and websites that do are basically taking an educated (but probably wrong) guess.

Now,all these are 100% not true. The first thing you need to know about finding a cheap flight is that there is no magic bullet or any secret ninja trick to doing so.

How Airlines & Flight Booking Works

Airlines used advanced computer mechanisms and pricing algorithms to determine airfare & prices. Then, they run sales based on a particular time of the year, passenger demands, weather, major events/festivals, competitor prices, time of a day, and much more. Those old “schemes” don’t work anymore. The system is too smart now.

So, that is why don’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Anyone who is telling you doesn’t know what they are talking about and how system works.

But,don't worry The Budget Travelogue still brought some actual hacks and few tips & tricks by following them you can probably book cheap flights to anywhere in the world.

2. Be Flexible With Your Travel Dates

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Airlines ticket prices alter greatly depending on the day of the week, time of year, and upcoming holidays and events/festivals such as Christmas, New Year’s Eve etc. Everyone wants to go somewhere during these times or we can say people are travelling more on special times in year.

Fly Off-Season

Flying during off-seasons is tip. Because,if you are going to fly when everyone is flying, then you’re ticket is going to cost more. Try to be flexible with your dates and time.Moreover, it’s always cheaper to fly during the weekdays, because most people travel on the weekends and airlines rasie their prices then. You can also find cheap flights if you fly after a major holiday.

Also, most early-morning or late-night flights are cheaper because fewer people want to travel then (who wants to wake up early?)

Try To Book Early

That might sound weird, but there's no better way to get a cheaper flight ticket than to plan your travel well in advance. Because,the difference of one day can mean hundreds of dollars in savings.  No matter whatever deals or discounts come by, booking early has always proved to be the best way to get cheap airfares.

3. Use The Best Flight Search Engines & Tools

It takes a lot of effort and time to search through different flights from multiple airlines on various sites to find the best deal. All search engines have inflated flight costs as part of taking a cut from the airlines. But, we picked up few among some of the best flight search engines and websites. Because, no single search engine or site is consistently perfect. As such, you may need to try a combination of different flight search engines to ensure you’re not missing out any results. There doesn’t seem to be one that gets the cheapest flight all of the time. Though, we find following flight search engines you can use:

• Skyscanner
• Momondo
• Google Flights
• Airfare Watchdog
• Cheapoair

Price Comparison Tools

It is such a good idea to use price comparison tools. With these tools, you can instantly check & compare the prices of different flights and airlines, side-by-side. So, that you can view the best rates, all in one place, without searching through multiple airline and flight booking websites.

And, as we mentioned above, since the price of flights does vary remarkably, depending on what month, day or even time you fly, and for various other factors -price comparison tools can really come in handy.

Using them, you can not only see the best offers, but you can also see the cheapest flights and days to fly.

Here are few tools you can use:

• Skyscanner
• Kayak
• FareCompare
• GoogleFlights

Set Price Alerts For The Flights

Yes, always set the price alerts for the flights you are interested in and willing to book in near future. Airlines often drop their prices or apply offers to their airfare, and without knowing that we miss out on deals.

When you set up an alert, however, you can get notified of any price fluctuation via email or push notifications on your device.

Both Kayak and Skycanner which we mentioned above, allow you to set up price alerts on flights you are interested in.

4. Book Connecting Flights If Possible

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Instead of flying straight into your destination try looking for a connecting flight and book the flights with 1 or 2 stops on the way to your final destination because,most of the time connecting flights are cheaper than flight direct. For example, If you’re flying somewhere that involves a transfer, say from India to U.S which typically involves India to England, then England to U.S, consider that it may be cost less to book these type of flights with a layover by adding another destination to your trip. 

Note: Remember,you should not book tight layovers. Means do not book transfer flights that are just hours apart! This approach is only for those who want to make an additional destination of a few days in their trip, before boarding their next flight.

Find The Cheapest Airport & City To Fly

By adding more into this, try finding the cheapest airport or city to fly in your destination country instead of landing at the main airport or city where major traffic arrives. Because, every country has a main international airport at which mostly travellers arrive and depart from and due to that there is more competition between airlines and a higher frequency of flights at these airports. 

Remember,the main airport or the nearest airport to your destination may not be the best one to fly from, if you’re looking to save some cash. Always compare the price of taking a flight to a bigger airport versus flying elsewhere in that country. 

Fly Budget Airlines

Earlier, if you wanted to fly between continents and major countries, you were mostly stuck with traditional expensive airlines. But,with the introduction of budget airlines that's no longer a problem for budget travelling. Budget carriers now provide service at many long-haul routes, making it possible to fly around the world cheap. Flying the budget airlines is a good alternative to flying “the majors expensive airlines” whenever possible. You get fewer perks, but you can save alot of cash.

A list of the biggest budget airlines in the world:

ASIA ( Air Asia, Tiger Air, Jeju Air, Jetstar, Hong Kong Express, Scoot, Peach Air, Spice Jet, Spring Airlines, Nok Air, T’Way Airlines, Vanilla Air )

EUROPE ( Vueling, Ryanair, Easyjet, Aigle Azur, Eurowings, Flybe, Norwegian Air, Wizz Air, WOW Air ) 

NORTH & SOUTH AMERICA ( Southwest, Allegiant Air, Frontier, Spirit Airlines, Sun Country Airlines, Flair Airlines, Swoop, Jetlines, Air Canada Rouge, WOW Air, Porter, Air Transat  ) 

AUSTRALIA & NZ ( Jetstar, Tiger Air, ) 

Also Read: Best Travel Hacks And Tricks For An Easy Travel Experience

5. Book Flight Tickets In Bulk

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If you want to save money on flight booking try to book in bulk amount when travelling more than one destination.  As a common rule, you will get better value on your airfare if you buy more at the same time like multi-city flights, but only if they are with the same airline, or airlines in the same alliance.

Book Two, One Way Flights Instead Of Roundtrip

It is believed that round-trip flights were always the cheapest. But, generally, that isn’t always the case. So, before you opt for a return flight, first comapre the price difference between round-trip and two single journey flights. After that, consider booking two,one way flight instead of roundtrip. It could work out cheaper.

Fly Out And Return With Different Airlines

Adding more to the above trick, if you do compare the cost of two single journey flights, then try to choose different airlines to fly out and back with. Because,this can also work out cheaper.

And, with above mention tools searching for flights from different airlines is pretty easy to do.

Search Prices As One Person

Don’t search or buy multiple tickets in a single take. Airlines always show the highest ticket price in a group of tickets. For example, if you are flying with family or friends and searching for four seats together, the airline mechanism will find four seats together and show your fare based on the highest ticket price. So if seat A is $200, seats B and C are $250, and seat D is $300, it will price those tickets as $300 each instead of adding up the individual ticket prices. Therefore, always search for tickets as a single identity. Afterwards, in the checkin process, you can pick your seats so you and your partners can sit together.

6. Keep Your Flight Search Private

You’re often get disturbed, thinking that a flight price has changed after searching it a few times in your web browser. This happens due to your search history and cookies in your web browser. Flight prices do increase or fluctuates when a particular route is repeatedly searched, this is where the algorithms works, due to repeated search the site came to know that you are interested in booking these particular flight or route. And,wants to scare you into booking the flight quickly before prices get more higher.

That is why always search for flights in incognito or private browsing mode to see the lowest prices and always clear your browsing history and cookies before flight search to avoid these price fluctuation.

7. Fly & Earn Reward Points

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The easiest way to book cheap flights is with points. Yes,you can earn points by flying and redeem them afterwards for cheap flight booking. If you don’t have any, don’t worry – sign up for travel rewards credit card and also many major airlines have their own travel card you can opt that.

You can sign up for an airline rewards card that earns points, the more you cover miles flying with that airline, the more reward points you earn.

8. Some Other Honourable Tips & Tricks

Following are few other honourable tips & tricks for cheap flight booking, which works out sometimes and can save you alot of money while travelling on a budget trip. 

• If you are a student take advantage of student discounts. Many airlines offers discounts to students.
• Search ticket prices in other currencies and check if it’s cheaper to pay in some other currency.
• Search for airline errors and sale fares. If you are lucky you can grab that ticket on time.
• Subscribe to airline E-mail Alerts for latest discounts and offers.
• Contact the airline directly for a discount or an upgrade for seat.
• Remove pre-selected items while booking flight like baggage claims, various insurances etc.

These are our cheap flight booking tips and tricks. Do you have some sneaky techniques to book cheap flights? If Yes,share below to help out the budget travellers.

Happy Budget Travelling..!!