Want to save on your airfare ticket? Use these tricks

Airlines offer cheap tickets during festive seasons, but it’s not easy to avail benefits all the time as they follow a unique system of pricing.

The final airfare that you pay includes base fare, which is Rs 3,000 or below, as per new DGCA rule.

The charges like airline fuel, CUTE, passenger service fee, user development fee, other surcharge and GST rates are included for both economic and business class.

However, there are few tricks which you can use for saving on your airfare tickets, as per Bank Bazaar.

Always compare

Before booking a flight, use flight comparison websites like Google flights, Kayak or Skyscanner to compare fares across different airlines to your desired destination.

This gives you a better picture and also help you select a more economical option.

Choose to fly on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays

Usually, when supply is low, then demand is high and airlines do follow this method very nicely.

Most of us choose to travel for work mostly on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays and some of us like to travel on weekends for personal vacations.

Thus, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays will usually have the cheapest airfares during the week.

Use incognito mode during booking

Once you book an airline ticket from a travel portal, your information gets automatically stored in their system along with cookies. This is a good thing it does save a lot of time on mentioning the same data.

Problem arises when you plan to book air ticket second time, the  website server reads your details and raises the airfare.

For avoiding such situation, you switch to the private browsing mode or the Incognito mode available on your internet browser. Also, you can use the browser in the normal mode after you have cleared all the cookies or simply open the website from a different browser or computer.

Early booking is good, but not too early

Best time for booking a flight is considered, as per BankBazaar, 45-90 days before the date of departure.

If you try took too early, you might get locked into an unfavourably high price for your airfare.

Shoulder season

Demand for airlines is higher in the months of March, April, July, August and December as they are the busiest times of the year due to school breaks and holidays.

So, you should schedule your travel or try booking flights during shoulder season which is in the months of May, June, October and November.

Also, off-season months like January, February and September are better when it comes to flight bookings as tickets turn out to be much cheaper in these months.

Use airline website to book

There are variety of travelling portals which allow you to book a flight ticket, but you need to be careful while making bookings on these sites.

These websites offer attractive discounts, but during the time of checkout, they charge you much more than what you were shown in the beginning, because they levy a hefty service charge on every transaction.

Hence, it is always advisable to book an air ticket through official website of a desired airline.

If you plan to travel next time through air, remember these pointers to save your hard earned money on tickets.

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