Cheap Flights Travelwise

Cheap Flights Travelwise

Shopping around on the Internet can result in getting some really good deals on flights so arm yourself with some knowledge before beginning the quest.

I shall be adding some links to different companies that offer cheap flights later on so do check the categories from time to time for new additions.

Low cost airlines tend to have the better deals if you book earlier and in a lot of cases you only have to pay for the airport taxes and a few pounds for the actual flight. There is however something to consider and that is that baggage charges will have to be added if you are storing anything in the hold. There is with some low cost airlines a different split of your baggge allowance. 10 kilo grams hand luggage and 15 kilo gram hold limits apply to some and you need to watch the hold luggage since this will incur charges if over the allowance.

Scheduled flights are those run by major airlines and seem to be in my experience the more expensive option, however that being said you do generally have certain extras available to you.

Chartered flights are those arranged by a travel company and more often not these days will be part of the travel group. The cost of these flights seem to get lower the closer to the depature date. More often than not the baggage allowance is hand 5kg and hold 20kg.

Since the flights can be the most expensive item it is worthwhile booking the flights first since you can then move forwards or backwards a day or two to get the cheapest flight. You can then book the hotel after since generally the price will not be different.

Obvious to some perhaps but still worth note is that you can enter cheap flights and the destination into most common search engines like www.google.co.uk for example. This will return many sites to begin your search. However, you will soon become exhausted looking. There are several websites that will search through a number of different airlines for you and some of these as I mentioned earlier will be mentioned.

You will notice that not alll the options are direct flights and some may include a transfer and although it could work out cheaper you do need to consider the extra time it will consume in the transfer process. Consider that you have to initially travel to the airport, 1 hour, 1 hour allocated for incidents enroute, 2 hours booking in time, flight times on both aeroplanes, immigration and baggage collection say 1 hour, transfer time of say 2 hours. So that is 7 hours plus the sum of both flight times and then you need to add in the time waiting to depart from the second airport.