• How to book the cheapest air ticket online?

    Most of the flyers book their flight tickets online today and are always on the lookout for cheap air tickets. Here’s how you can find the cheapest air ticket online:

     
    Current Offers on Flight Booking

    • Domestic Flights – Use Promo Code GOYATRA to save upto Rs 500
    • International Flights – Use Promo Code BHARATYATRA
    • Check the 30% off on Domestic Flights offer from TravelocityPromotional Offers currently active on Akbar Travels Online, a booking site of Akbar Travels, one of oldest travel agency in India.
    • Get Rs 300 Discount on Kingfisher Airlines on Yatra
    • Save Rs 600 on Spice Jet airline
    • Book on Kingfisher, Kingfisher Red & Save Rs 350
    • Rs 600 Cashback on Paramount airlines
    • Book on Go Air and Save upto Rs 500

    Step 1

    Search on aggregator sites. Easiest way to search for the cheapest ticket is to search on aggregator sites. Aggregator site searches cheap ticket for you across all airline websites. Example of aggregator sites are Yatra.com, Cleartrip, Travelociy etc.
    Through Yatra.com you can Save upto 20% on Spice Jet Domestic Flights – offer expired
    Step 2

    Book directly on airlines site. After you have identified the cheapest ticket for your travel date through step 1  go to the website of that airline. Do the search again on the airline website. The final price which you will see for the same ticket here will be less than the price on the aggregator site since aggregator sites add their commission to your final price.

    Step 3

    Try to use discount codes on airline sites while booking. Promotional codes can help you get discount upto Rs 500! Say for example, if you are booking your ticket on Spicejet’s website, you will see a field for entering ‘Spicy Code’. Do a quick search on google with keyword ‘spicy code’. You will see a couple of websites / forums that have spicy code values. Try using these codes on the Spicejet website. If you are lucky one of these codes might actually work and your ticket price might come down further.
    Currently you can save Rs 300 on Go Air Flights through Yatra. – offer expired

    Step 4

    Do not opt for insurance. By default airlines give you travel insurance and charge you around Rs 150 for this. Do not opt for this and you can bring down your ticket price even further

    Step 5

    Use price calendar. If your travel dates are flexible you should use the price calendar on the airline aggregator websites to see on which date you can get the cheapest ticket. You can further cut down the cost by booking the ticket well in advance.

    For discounts on flight tickets see Yatra promotion code

    Promotional Offers currently active on Akbar Travels Online, a booking site of Akbar Travels, one of oldest travel agency in India.

    <a href=”http://www.s2d6.com/x/?x=c&amp;z=s&amp;v=2645318&amp;k=[NETWORKID]“  target=”_blank”><strong>Save Rs 600 on Spice Jet airline</strong></a>

    <a href=”http://www.s2d6.com/x/?x=c&amp;z=s&amp;v=2645318&amp;k=[NETWORKID]“  target=”_blank”><strong>Book on Kingfisher, Kingfisher Red & Save Rs 350 </strong></a>

    <a href=”http://www.s2d6.com/x/?x=c&amp;z=s&amp;v=2645318&amp;k=[NETWORKID]“  target=”_blank”><strong>save Rs 600 on Paramount  airline</strong></a>

    <a href=”http://www.s2d6.com/x/?x=c&amp;z=s&amp;v=2645318&amp;k=[NETWORKID]“  target=”_blank”><strong>Book on Go Air and Save upto Rs 500</strong></a>

     

    Published on June 30, 2009 · Filed under: Travel; Tagged as: , ,
    16 Comments
  • Manisha

    Nice post. I will definitely use this the next time i book my ticket.

  • bharathowto

    Currently no spicycodes from spicejet are available. Will update the spicycodes from spicejet as soon as they are provided.

  • Nihal

    I recently booked a ticket at travelocity.com.in. This site gave me a price cheaper than the airline (Kingfisher in my case). Not only that, the airline site refused my credit card (US based); however, I had no problem paying with it on travelocity.

    Not sure why you did not include travelocity.com.in in your “aggregator” list.

    Bottomline: the airline site may not be the best choice.

  • bharathowto

    @Nihal:
    Almost all the airlines in India don’t allow to use international credit cards because of the fraduelent usage of such cards in the past on these websites. And it is difficult to settle with card issuing banks when the bank is located outside of India. But travelocity.com is an international aggregator so I guess that’s why it doesnot block US cards.

  • travel

    Thanks, I enjoyed your post immensely. It’s nice to see someone writing something worth reading

  • bharathowto

    @Travel:
    Am glad that you liked the post. Feel free to share it :)

  • manisha

    please let me know when the spicycodes becomes available.

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