Comments on: Save Money On Airfare

By: Jessi

Jessi — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:18:03 +0000

Another way to save money on your flights is to check if the price you found is the least expensive one on letmebook.com. The guy manually searches for the cheapest flights.

By: Lazy Man

Lazy Man — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:26:05 +0000

That’s terrible. At least you can bring a water bottle and fill up at a water bubbler (as we say in New England) or a water fountain (as the rest of the world seems to call them).

By: Jules @ Lovely Las Vegas

Jules @ Lovely Las Vegas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:47:02 +0000

Note: US Airways charges for drinks now. You can’t get tap water, either, for “free”. They only provide bottles — for a “nominal” fee.

A little old lady on one of my flights needed some H2O to down her medicine but they won’t give her any (even tap) because everyone coach needs to purchase their drink. So just FYI to everyone, especially since you can’t bring any water from home, you need to have forsight since at least US Airways doesn’t give away anything free on the plane (at least for my domestic flight — it was just under three hours, so not so long, but long enough to need hydration, ya know?)

By: SimplyForties

SimplyForties — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:20:46 +0000

@rrgg – I think that totally depends on your market. Southwest is almost always the cheapest for me flying out of Texas to my most frequent domestic destinations.

By: rrgg

rrgg — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:26:42 +0000

Southwest is very often not the cheapest.

Southwest fought hard to keep their fares off of the aggregator sites, and there’s a reason why.

By: Kristy @ Master Your Card

Kristy @ Master Your Card — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:40:20 +0000

Man, I had no idea these sites existed! I travel every three months to LA, so I’ll be sure to keep these tools in my arsenal. I don’t know if kayak offers bundles, but prior to my learning this site existed, I used to always try and bundle my flight and hotel for a better deal. The only time I wouldn’t do this is when the particular conference I was attending offered a significant discount on the hotel.

I was also going to mention traveling during off times during the week itself. You’ll get a better discount on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays in most cases.

Thanks for the info!

By: SimplyForties

SimplyForties — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:10:08 +0000

I really only fly on Southwest anymore and I use my Southwest Visa card for just about everything. I earn points fairly quickly that way and usually manage to come up with a couple of free tickets each year, which really helps out with my travel budget!

By: kim

kim — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:04:41 +0000

I used to always recommend kayak (i travel a lot) but i’ve started using farechase.yahoo.com. I’ve noticed they always come up with the same price as kayak or about 30% of the time..it’s even better than kayak! I highly recommend that you use it…i think it’s able to find cheaper prices because they don’t limit you to one airline. in other words, if the price is cheaper…they will fly you in on one airline but on your flight home it may be another airline. this seems to give them an edge.

By: Writer's Coin

Writer's Coin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:12:27 +0000

I agree about Kayak, it’s my favorite site too. As for farecast, I remember raving about it when it first came out, but in my experience it’s not very consistent. I wouldn’t rely on it to make these kinds of decisions.

I would also suggest that people try to play with their dates and locations: try flying out of one airport and arriving in another—it sounds counter intuitive but it just saved me and my wife around $600 for our upcoming honeymoon.

By: Goal Hunter

Goal Hunter — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:56:03 +0000

I fly a fair amount in Canada, which is where I live. In Canada the two major airlines have an email list you can subscribe to, and the often send out 24 hour sales at 50% off. If you have a long lead time you can just wait for one of these seat sales to come along, maybe once per month. The fares don’t get cheaper than at these times.

Another option is that both of these airlines allow you to cancel for $40. So if you are stuck flying in a week or two and fear that a seat sale might no come then book the lowest fare you see but keep looking for a fare that is more than $40 cheaper.