Where is the best place to buy plane tickets?
Knowing what time of day, day of the week, it is most profitable to purchase tickets, you can significantly save on their price.
Thanks to this article, you will find out the best times, resources and the right life hacks for buying air tickets.
The best time to buy an airline ticket depends on many factors: airline, destination, season, and even specific dates.
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When to buy tickets?
Almost all airlines have tickets available for purchase 330 days before departure.
Most travelers lean towards the practical conclusion that to purchase tickets, it is worth 2 months before the departure date or 54 days. Air tickets for the summer to popular tourist destinations such as Simferopol, Sochi, Mineralnye Vody, etc. should be purchased 2.5 - 4 months before the departure date.
What time to buy plane tickets?
According to the reviews and experiences of numerous travelers, it has been suggested that the best time to purchase air tickets is Wednesday, 1 am (in the time zone where the airline is located)... This is the so-called hour X.
Should I buy air tickets in advance?
Sometimes readers ask me: “ Should I buy plane tickets six months in advance?“How long before departure it is worth buying a ticket depends on the direction of the flight and the airline.
Almost all low-cost airlines such as AirBaltic, Air Berlin, UIA, Wizz Air and others offer the best prices for flights for six months or more. The prices are really not much lower, buying in advance, you will save, on average, 15 percent, but there are discounts up to 50% on certain dates, possibly at an inconvenient time.
All the same, if you do not plan to fly out on holidays, during the season, then it is worth purchasing tickets no earlier than 2 months in advance.
If you are not tied to specific travel numbers, you can save a lot on flights. How?
- Firstly, you can watch the price chart on search engines and select dates where more favorable prices pop up.
You can find out when it will be cheapest to fly to the destination you need on the website skyscanner.ru, choosing the “cheapest month” when searching, and thus plan your vacation for this particular month.
- Secondly, you can take advantage of the offers of "Last Minute" air tickets - charter, which are sometimes really hot.
- Thirdly, you can catch great deals, discounts and promotions, erroneous airline fares by subscribing to notifiers like 100500miles.ru
Where is the best place to buy plane tickets?
It is profitable to buy air tickets from Russia, on online search engines, aggregators, like: skyscanner.ru; aviasales.ru; bravoavia.ru; worldticketcenter.nl and more others because they search and display prices for virtually all active, popular airlines.
Flight found on a search engine: Moscow - New York for 7482 rubles.
When flying abroad, profitable air tickets can be purchased on such resources on the Internet as: worldticketcenter.nl; cheapoair.com; en.skypicker.com, etc. Sometimes, it will be cheaper to purchase tickets on the websites of the airlines themselves.
For example, discount air tickets (non-refundable air tickets) cannot be found on search engines. They can only be purchased through the airlines' website.
These can be such tempting prices as those of Transaero:
- Moscow - St. Petersburg 650 rubles;
- Moscow - Min. Water 1250 rub.
