Where to buy air tickets cheaper? How far in advance is it cheapest to book air tickets?

The only way to travel is by train, train or plane, so today I will gather everyone to talk about air tickets. Many people missed it for the first time or because they bought too little. The most suitable air ticket, today I will teach you how to get a national air ticket. How to inquire and order round-trip air tickets

The first thing is to use a flight search engine, take skycanner as an example. After determining the destination, you can use the engine to know which airlines take this route. In this way, You can find an airline with a suitable fare or an airline you like. Then go to the airline’s official website to buy tickets. Buying tickets on the airline’s official website is the most reliable and safest way!

First go to the Skyscanner official website and enter the travel destination and date you want to inquire about. For example: Guangzhou-Frankfurt, round trip, for example: June 1st for the outbound trip and June 13th for the return trip. (Note: There are two airports in Frankfurt. Generally, international routes are at FRA, and most of HHN's are European inland routes. If you are not sure, just select the city). Press "Search" and a search page will appear. There are prices from , time, airline comparison.

The fourth-ranked airline is Cathay Pacific (Dragon and Cathay are owned by one company, generally domestic routes are operated by Dragonair and international flights are operated by Cathay Pacific). It is one of the favorite airlines. The in-flight food is delicious. The safety factor and service are very good. But don’t be happy, the price of 3855 is false, because when you click “Select”, you will see that this is not the quotation from the airline’s official website, but the quotation from the air ticket agency “Reliable Travel Network”, but it is very unreliable, try If you continue to press "book directly", you will get the following page:

This is not an accident. Many air ticket agency quotes that appear to be particularly cheap on Skyscanner are unreliable. Therefore, the quotation from the airline’s official website is king.

4. At this time, you can go to Cathay Pacific’s official website and enter the travel destination and time.

The advantage of searching on the official website is that there is a fare calendar, which can compare the combined fares of the previous few days and mark the lowest price at a glance. If your travel time is flexible, you might as well go two days in advance from May 30 to June 11, and the lowest fare is CNY4049. Click on the intersection of May 30th for the outbound trip and June 11th for the return trip to proceed to the next step. It shows the refund, change, and mileage accumulation rules for the following four different fares. (Of course, the lower the fare, the lower the flexibility)

Save, "cannot reserve seats in advance" actually does not matter, because no matter which fare you choose, even a low-cost airline ticket, You can select your seat for free when checking in online before departure. Online check-in is generally open 48 hours before flight departure, and the regulations for each airline and route are slightly different. As long as you check in online in time, you can usually choose the seat you like. Except for special paid seats.

Select the lowest fare in the Save tier and continue to select the flight time:

The available flight times are very good. Depart at night, transfer to Hong Kong, and sleep on the flight to Frankfurt. I arrived at my destination just in time after sleeping. The arrival time was in the morning local time, just in time to play, so the jet lag was instantly adjusted. Domestic flights to Europe generally depart late and arrive in the morning, so it is easy to adjust to the time difference.

Then enter your personal information and you can continue the booking process. When paying, you can choose to pay immediately, or you can keep the fare until payment within 24 hours. Final check of booking:

The only nitpick is that the connecting flight in Hong Kong is a bit short, only 1 hour and 5 minutes. If the flight from Guangzhou to Hong Kong is delayed, we will be in trouble if we fail to catch the flight to Frankfurt. . If it is the fault of the airline, it will be responsible for arranging you to the most suitable flight that can be arranged. Buying a connecting ticket has this guarantee.

Cathay Pacific is a Hong Kong airline, and all flights need to transfer in Hong Kong. Some people may ask: Would it be cheaper to fly directly from Hong Kong with Cathay Pacific? The answer is: NO. This is the airline’s pricing strategy. Nowadays, in order to attract tourists from other places, many airlines make connecting tickets for many international flights cheaper than flying one leg alone. It is equivalent to giving a discount and sending a short domestic flight to attract this group of travelers who are price-sensitive but relatively less time-sensitive.

Then, return to Skyscanner, place the mouse on "Airlines", and you can see the airlines operating the Guangzhou--Frankfurt route in the drop-down menu. You can pay attention to special offers based on your preferences for airlines.

I personally feel insecure about Turkish Airlines, Vietnam Airlines, EgyptAir and other African airlines, so I won’t choose them even if they are cheaper.

For several Chinese airlines, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Air China, although the service is not very good and the seats are not comfortable enough, they still feel quite safe, so if there is a price advantage, I will still choose them. of.

Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines and the two tycoon airlines in the Middle East (Qatar and Emirates) have impeccable service and comfort, and their safety factors are among the best in the world. They have all been in recent years. The top five best airlines in the world. It is the first choice every time I travel.

Among the selected airlines, Qatar Airways has an absolute price advantage. Comment on Qatar Airways:

One of the three largest airlines in the Middle East, one of the eight five-star airlines in the world, and has been ranked first as the world's best airline for many years.

I took Qatar Airways to Greece in June 2015. Outbound trip: Guangzhou-Doha-Athens, return trip: Paris-Doha-Guangzhou. There are quite a lot of varieties and styles of airplane meals, and the whole journey is just a matter of eating until you're full, going to sleep, waking up and eating.

Speaking of in-flight food, the best one I have ever had is Cathay Pacific. It is more in line with the taste, the ingredients are fresh, and the styles are varied. Hagen-Dazs ice cream is also available on long-distance flights.

However, the quality of Qatar Airways’ in-flight meals is already much better than China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines. When I flew to the United States on China Eastern Airlines, the same staple food was served for two meals on the same flight. I was speechless.

If we have to pick a fault with Qatar Airways, the only point is that there are many African passengers on the Guangzhou-Doha segment. After arriving in Guangzhou, we have to go through inspection and quarantine procedures, which is very troublesome and time-consuming. (Because of Ebola)

To sum up, the ones that meet the requirements are Cathay Pacific Airways 4049CNY and Qatar Airways 3975CNY. It seems that it is easy to get cheap air tickets. Because the off-season for travel in Europe is before June 30, and the peak season is from July to October. If you want to visit Europe during the summer vacation or National Day, you have to work harder to buy cheap air tickets that you like. . Pay attention to the promotions of each airline in advance, and check Skyscanner or the airline's official website frequently, because airlines will release some special air tickets from time to time. It's just that airlines will position different cabin classes at different price levels, such as R class, V class, T class, etc. They are both economy class, but the flexibility of the ticket and the accumulated miles are different. How to inquire and order open air tickets

Open air tickets are also called gap air tickets and multi-segment air tickets. It means that the destination of the outbound journey and the departure point of the return journey are not in the same city.

For example, if you want to visit multiple countries or cities in Europe and don’t want to go back, you can choose to enter from city A and exit from city B. (European Schengen countries are just like domestic ones. With a Schengen visa, you can travel freely within the Schengen country)

Or maybe the round-trip air ticket to a certain city is more expensive and another city is cheaper, then you can Share the airfare. It was for this reason that I played together in Greece and Paris. First of all, Greece is the destination, but tickets from Guangzhou to Athens are relatively expensive. Currently, there are no direct flights from China, including Hong Kong, to Athens, only connecting flights. From Guangzhou, only Qatar Airways and Emirates Airline can fly Choose and don't take the road for granted. At that time, Qatar Airways' promotion to Athens was not very strong, with a round trip costing 6k+, while the promotion to Paris was very cheap, only 4k+, so I chose the Guangzhou-Athens, Paris-Guangzhou flight, which together cost 5.5k. Considering that you go to the island to visit Greece, even if you want to return from Athens, you have to fly one way from the island to Athens. It is better to fly one way from the island to Paris and then return from Paris. You can save 1k on the air ticket. You can also visit one more city you want to visit, why not!

For example: I want to enter the country from Frankfurt in June, go all the way south, visit Germany and Switzerland, and finally come back from Geneva.

Search for open air tickets on Skyscanner (this is a search function added by Skyscanner last year), open Skyscanner, click: International multi-trip (including gaps), enter the location and time you want to query, You can also press "Add Range" to add a voyage.

The search results are as follows:

The cheapest one is Turkish Airlines. I don’t feel safe enough to choose it when transferring in Istanbul. As for how everyone sees it, it's a matter of personal opinion and you can decide for yourself.

Looking at the Skyscanner results, the second cheapest airline is operated by China Southern Airlines + KLM. The outbound journey requires two transfers, and it arrives in the morning and evening, so a whole day is wasted. My personal principle is to exclude!

Based on personal experience, Skyscanner’s multi-segment search function is still not very accurate. It is recommended that you still use it to search and refer to which airlines operate the destination at the same time. route, and then go to the airline’s official website to search further.

2. Search and order open air tickets on the airline's official website

(First use the "round trip" column to search for two cities separately, and finally use "Multiple Cities" to order open air tickets)

It is known that Qatar Airways operates routes to Frankfurt and Geneva at the same time, while Cathay Pacific currently does not have routes to Geneva. The following takes Qatar Airways as an example:

Enter the official website of Qatar Airways,

"Multiple cities" in the flight search bar is used to order open air tickets. Some official websites are called "multiple destinations", and some are called "multiple voyages". They all mean the same thing, which is to open flights.

However, do not use this method when searching, only use this column in the last step of ordering. Because what appears in the "Multiple Cities" column is the final fare result, and there is no fare calendar for comparison.

When searching, first use the round trip column to search for two cities separately, so that there will be a fare calendar for you to compare.

The best (or cheapest) flight date and time searched under Mark.

Finally, go back to the flight search box, "Multiple Cities", enter the information to search, and select the flight combination you want. In this way, you will finally get the final airfare: Guangzhou-Frankfurt 1723CNY+Geneva ---Guangzhou 2891CNY=4624CNY.

How to effectively pay attention to air ticket price dynamics

1. Subscribe to Skyscanner’s “Price Change Notification” and pay attention to air ticket price changes at any time

For off-season air tickets, it may be easy to redeem them. to cheap fares.

But if you want to buy cheap air tickets during the peak season, you still have to: pay attention early and search frequently. Another way to cheat is to set the "price change notification" on Skyscanner in advance. If the price of the ticket you are interested in changes, Skyscanner will send you an email to notify you.

First, enter your desired destination and time in the Skyscanner search bar. After the search results appear, a "Price Change Notification" will appear in the red circle in the picture. Click on it, enter your email address in the dialog box, and click "Subscribe".

One final word: Although sometimes the prices searched by Skyscanner are not very accurate and have some limitations. But for now, Skyscanner is indeed a good air ticket search engine and plays a very good reference role in querying air tickets.

2. Follow the air ticket discount information at any time on social platforms such as WeChat and Weibo

It is recommended to follow the WeChat public account for information: Qiongyou discounts, global air travel specials, Skyscanner Skyscanner, etc. There are ticket promotion information push.

I am a fan of Qatar Airways and Cathay Pacific Airways. Therefore, Qatar Airways and Cathay Pacific Airways are both on the watch list of the public account, so I can know any promotional information immediately.