What is the best way to get the lowest fare?
The holy grail of travel- how to buy airline seats at the lowest possible price. While there is no definitive answer, there are several ways to ensure that you do not pay over the odds for your airline ticket. Book at the correct time – not too early nor too late To begin, airline ticket prices vary more or less as tickets are sold, thus it is highly unlikely that you will ever pay the same price for an airline ticket as the same person next to you (unless you booked your tickets at the same time). Indeed, you may even be paying twice as much for the same seat depending upon when you purchase your ticket. Each airline works on a yield management system which is used to calculate an airfare based on the season, local events, competition, time of the year, fuel price proyection, and so on. The demand for a particular flight route at one of these times is then calculated into a percentage of airfares available. Using figures from previous similar circumstances, i.e. the same time last yea