When is the European air ticket cheap? How to buy a low-cost air ticket in Europe?

You must buy air tickets to travel to Europe, but the air tickets from China to Europe are too expensive. How can I get cheaper ticket information? Let's introduce Bian Xiao to you.

How to choose special fares?

The bus shuttle service is actually a mockery of the 24-hour coverage of European low-cost airlines, as low as bus tickets. Compared with the expensive train tickets of international buses, taking a taxi is sometimes the most cost-effective choice.

However! It is often seen that big coffee tourists who travel around the world encounter cheap flights in Europe. They have to pay a baggage fine or they can't board the plane, so I think it is very necessary to know the correct way to open this means of transportation.

First of all, the five airlines unveiled today made a neat appearance:

Ryanair, EasyJet, Flynn Airlines, Wizz Air, norwegian air shuttle Company.

The first two basically cover the whole of Europe, including Britain, Ireland, Israel, Turkey and other radiation countries, as well as the outer islands scattered around the Mediterranean. The latter three companies take the mountain as the king, respectively, and expand their territory around their own countries, providing more routes to supplement southern Europe, eastern Europe and northern Europe.

With so many airlines, unlike where China goes, third-party ticketing apps such as Ctrip and Flying Pig can compare prices in one stop. How do you usually vote? Sacrifice the most solid backstage one-day tour app of this article.

Every time I find a ticket, the price is incredibly low.

The method is very simple, just like buying tickets at ordinary times. Enter the origin, destination and departure time, and the tickets sorted by price will be displayed automatically. You don't need to go to the city in detail, just enter the country name. )

The best thing about traveling is that you can get the lowest airfare in the world through big data search. Unless individual websites eavesdrop manually, the price of sky patrol must be the lowest.

It can be seen that the fares offered by different agents vary greatly, and the air tickets from Slovakia to Israel are undoubtedly WizzAir in Eastern Europe, occupying an absolute advantage.

Attention! If there is no direct entrance to travel, you can jump directly to Ctrip, official website and other platforms to purchase tickets directly. The real price is transparent and there is no advertising fee. So if you want to place an order without stepping on the thunder, you have to watch it all the time.

If the time category is random, you can search out the air ticket histogram in a natural month and determine the minimum departure date.

Another thing that attracts me most about a day trip is the special airfare from the starting point to any destination.

Perfect for people wandering around during holidays.

There is always a plane ticket for you.

Description of lightning protection for boarding of low-cost airlines

Are you excited to see so many fares? Don't worry, the low-priced water is deep, so be careful when riding.

Confirm at least three key points before buying air tickets: airport-city public transportation, check-in and boarding pass, and baggage allowance.

Next, take Ryan as an example to introduce low-cost minefields (because Ryan has the most mines).

Ryanair lightning protection zone

Keywords: cheapest, most routes

Ryanair from Ireland is probably the airline that all European backpackers love and hate. It has absolute advantages, abundant routes and flights, and low prices. Off-peak international flights are often 10 euros to all parts of Europe. More radical, it can be said that as long as Ryan has a route, it is the lowest price in the whole network.

The main reasons for the low price are: hiring cheap labor of African-Americans and Asians, renting remote airports, and flying with red eyes at night. These three factors have effectively reduced operating costs.

What followed was the inconvenience of traveling.

How far is the airport? The airport bus is more expensive than the air ticket.

Many big cities in Europe have two or even three airports. Face the intercity train if you are not familiar with the situation.

5-hour drive = 1 hour airport bus, 1 hour boarding, 1.5 hour flight, 1 hour airport bus. The plane completely lost its most important "time-saving" advantage and had to make a complicated turn. At this time, I'd rather choose the international train that goes straight to the city. Sometimes, the price of a train is three or four times that of a plane ticket, so you have to fly (to save money). Not pretending to be b, but the fact (who told Europe that there is no high-speed rail?

[for example]

The taxi ticket from Oslo cheap airport in Norway to downtown is-100 yuan, equivalent to RMB 1000 yuan.

Pay attention to airport traffic and avoid sleeping at the airport.

Check in in advance, download the airline App scan code to board the plane, or print the ticket yourself.

This is probably what I don't like about Ryan the most. Online check-in time is 4 days to 2 hours before departure. Many tourists from China can't check in online by booking e-mail addresses and e-ticket numbers after purchasing tickets on domestic third-party ticketing websites, and they have to pay a high counter check-in fee (55 euros) when they arrive at the airport. Everyone is used to scanning their ID cards at the airport to get their boarding pass, but they don't realize that they have to check in online in advance, so people who come to Europe for the first time often have to pay Ryan this tuition fee.

Besides, Ryan asked you to print your boarding pass, otherwise? Print a 20 euro piece of paper at the counter. That's right. Low-cost airlines have to save even this paper money.

According to the latest regulations, Ryanair App scan code boarding is basically possible in Europe, and neighboring countries such as Morocco still need to print boarding passes.

[Focus] It is suggested to buy low-cost air tickets directly in official website, which is convenient for self-service online check-in. China's agent apps are all carefully selected. You need to call overseas to contact customer service every time you check in. When I met the customer service who didn't understand the process, a few phone calls and emails flew away.

Checked baggage quantity

Low-cost airlines usually don't provide free freight, and a stingy person like Ryan won't let you take advantage. Carry-on baggage is limited to 20 inches of carry-on baggage in the boarding box (note: the size of checked baggage is not limited to weight). What if I have more luggage to check? When you check in online, you can buy a checked baggage ticket, 25 euros, with a weight limit of 20 kilograms. Overweight 1kg, fine on the spot 10 euro. If you forget to buy luggage tags, you can only buy luggage tags on the spot, 40 euros each.

The key point is to take less luggage, not to check it, or to buy a baggage ticket that is more expensive than the air ticket when buying a ticket.

So check the abacus. If you don't plan to take the box to the airport, you will face

5 euros on-site check-in fee 20 euros boarding pass printing fee 40 euros plus checked baggage penalty.

Ok, let Ryan carry all the pots and praise my favorite low-cost company, Yi Jie.

EasyJet Airlines Limited

Keywords: the ticket purchase page is smooth, and the boarding pass does not need to be printed when the mobile phone scans the code.

I like Yi Jie mainly because its online booking customer experience is closest to China.

Accustomed to the convenient operation of China's major apps, such as ordering food with one click. All kinds of bugs applied in foreign websites will make people collapse.

"I can't go without it."

And Yi Jie is the best I have ever used!

I used to jump directly to Yi Jie's mobile web version through Sky Tour app, and I successfully purchased tickets without being stuck. At that time, I was lying in bed with a puzzled face and felt "holding the grass, that's what I want, so I left". Know how difficult it is to open a website, register an account, enter information and bind a bank card for the first time. The three main points are simple to operate and compatible with the page introduction function. In Europe where the Internet is developing slowly!

About app

The simplicity of the page and the comfort of the font layout are not worth boasting about for the time being. The experience of "online check-in code scanning boarding" is very cool. Printing boarding passes at the counter or independently saves time and energy. In a word: smart. Imagine that security can be scanned by mobile phone, as fast and convenient as taking the subway. Because it reduces the difficulty of traveling, it also reduces the anxiety of unknown journey.

At the same time, flights in Yi Jie are better than those in Ryan, and there are fewer low-cost airports, so the landing is close to the urban area. Unlike Ryan, there are not so many flights that land in the middle of the night and take off in the early morning, making people sleep at the airport. Relatively speaking, it is a more comfortable travel choice.

Ah, yes, there is a free refund/name change service within 24 hours after booking in Yi Jie. Sometimes, if you hesitate to buy, buybuy will not buy it, just because it can be returned for free, and then it will never be returned.

[Note] Yi Jie also needs to buy checked baggage. The rule of checked baggage is that there is only one large piece of luggage. If you have hand luggage,

Airlines with Soviet descent are always rigid and inconvenient to start from Siberia. The page design of the app is a bit rough, and the worst thing is that visa payment requires the mobile phone to receive the SMS verification code. It's embarrassing for an airline to have such a low security level. You also need to log in online. The advantage is that you don't have to print the ticket, and the mobile app scans the code to board the plane.

Small countries like Slovenia also have flights. I experienced a 50 euro round trip from Ljubljana to Brussels. This is also the only time I checked the size of my suitcase on 50 flights.

The 20-inch boarding box bought in China has a zipper interlayer, which can give you more space after loosening, and the thickness is 5cm, which is convenient for putting more luggage. Well, that's about it.

This thickness makes the size of the standard boarding box larger. It is impossible to pass through the security check frame according to the size stipulated by the airline, but the airline never delves into this detail, so I don't care. The suitcase was still half saturated at that time. I really didn't mean to take advantage. Then I pulled up the spring and boarded the plane smoothly. I have to say that once in the examination room, I blew my nose and was forced to show my paper towel to check whether there was honey juice on the cheat sheet.

Fulin aviation

Keywords: two pieces of luggage checked for free

Norwegian air shuttle Shuttle, which won the honorary title of the best low-cost airline in the world for five consecutive years, can be said to dislike low-cost airlines the least. Nordic countries suddenly increased the free check-in limit of low-cost airlines, 2*20kg baggage check-in counter, printed boarding pass and wifi supply. It's no different from ordinary airlines except that it doesn't provide free meals. The comfort of the seat is also greatly improved, and of course the price is natural. Well, a rising tide lifts all boats.

Air tickets to Nordic countries, especially Iceland and Norway, still have the advantage of base camp and a wide range of choices.

The rudder of norwegian air shuttle's shuttle in southern Europe is Barcelona, so if you want to travel from southern Europe to northern Europe, you can shuttle in norwegian air shuttle and search for special fares, and Barcelona will fly to the north. There are always surprises.

These five airlines have their own advantages and disadvantages. I believe most people, like me, are still price-oriented. So at the end of this article, I will carefully share two search special fares:

1. Change to the nearest destination/departure point.

For example, the flight to Chengdu is expensive (if you want to eat hot pot, search for the ticket to Chengdu to swallow your saliva), then search for the flight to Chongqing, sometimes the price is less than half, and the high-speed train from Chongqing to Chengdu is very convenient, so you can fly to Chongqing decisively. International flights are even more different, from Shanghai to Melbourne.

One-way trip from 500 yuan to Hangzhou is over 900.

2. Destination/origin reversal

What should I do if I have a clear destination but I don't know where to go?

Like flying from Europe to Brazil.

If you search for air tickets from Brazil to anywhere, you will find that the price to Portugal is the lowest in Europe. Similarly, if Portugal flies to Brazil, the price will be relatively cost-effective, because the round-trip fares of long-distance flights are similar.

Another epiphany is that Brazil was once a colony of Portugal. There are many kinds of exchanges between the two countries and the prices are low. Similarly, the frequency and price of flights from Spain to other colonial countries in Latin America are also satisfactory.