4 Things cause you expensive flight

It’s no secret that air travel can get expensive. Even though fuel prices are at some of the lowest levels they have been at in years; this has not been reflected in the cost of flights. There have always been tips floating around with ways to find the cheapest airfare. For example, booking at a certain time, on a certain day of the week or using a flight comparison website.

The Cookies

Almost every airline and travel booking website uses cookies to know what their visitors are interested in.
If you have ever been looking for a flight on a travel website, there is a good chance you received an email afterwards trying to get you to come back and buy that flight or hotel. The reason those companies were able to do that is because of cookies.

Not Being Flexible

Amanda Abella, a personal finance writer and savings advisor with Money Saving Pro, says the key to inexpensive travel is to be as flexible as possible. It might not always be the best choice to travel from Saturday to Saturday— the cheapest flights of the week might come on a Wednesday. If you really want to get the best deal make sure you are open to leaving any day of the week.

The same goes for the time of the day. Not many people want to be up and headed to the airport at 4 a.m. Because of that flights are going to be cheaper early in the morning than if you were trying to book an 11 a.m. flight.

Forget the Advantage of Positioning Flights

Every day, you can find flight deals that pop up to places all over the world. The only problem is that a lot of them may be from a city you don't live close to. However, don’t discard these deals because they could still be very valuable to you.

This is where positioning flights will come into the picture. Positioning flights will take you from your home airport to the location where a flight deal is originating. Let’s assume that there is a great fare from Los Angeles to Hong Kong. It’s a price that you can’t pass up, but you live in Denver. You would take a positioning flight, preferably using airline miles, to be able to take advantage of this deal. The cost of the flight deal and the positioning flight would need to be less than what a flight from Denver to Hong Kong would cost.

Forget Sign-up for Flight Alerts

Unless you have a lot of extra time on your hands, it’s near impossible to find all of the different flight deals that come available. To help solve this problem, you can sign up for fare alerts. There are websites like The Flight Deal or Airfare Watchdog that will search for the deals so that you don’t need to


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