TIP - Cheap flights ?! - Part 2

In part one, I have shown some ideas about booking the flight ticket through airlines' website,s I have to remind you again : IF YOU WANT A REAL CHEAP FLIGHTS, find the promotion on the airlines' websites and book the ticket around 2 months before the date you want to fly in order to guarantee the seats and to take CHEAPER PRICES for your tickets.

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And now, enjoy the part 2 of the topics with more information and tips about finding and deal with some problems with cheap flights ...

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- Thirdly, you should check the information of the flight carefully. For instance, when you travel abroad, the airport for cheap flight airline is normally far from the city center. Sometimes, the bus ticket is more expensive than the flight ticket. Therefore, before making decision of buying the flight ticket, you should refer to the information about the airport location, try to make calculation whether that flight ticket is really cheap as you think before or not. Moreover, you should check all the information of the airport where your flight will land also. For example, Beauvais (Aéroport de Beauvais Tillé) airport in Paris for cheap flights close at 11.30 PM and open at 6.00 AM the next morning, but there are many people don't know about this, and they have to rent a room in the hostel for 35EUR/room for three persons. Moreover, if you want to go to Paris center from this airport, you have to go by bus with the ticket price of 15 EUR. Therefore, CHECK THE AIRPORT INFORMATION before you decide to book the ticket.

 

- As I mentioned before, you should read carefully about the REFUND rule in case you cancel the ticket. For instance, if you buy a ticket from Warsaw, Poland to Paris, France, you should calculate the time or time period for everything relate to the flight like check in or so on. In addition, if you buy the ticket too soon, you should be aware of the changing time of your flight and if it affect your schedule or not.

- About completing all procedures before the flight, you should make it on time, or if you want it to be more perfect, you should do it as soon as possible in order to take a good seat position. Normally, you should be at the airport and check in 2 hours before the boarding time, so try to arrange the time suitably. There are some airline company allow you to check in online and take the seats you want; so that you should take notice of the information on the internet (or on the airline website), because it is very important if you go for a long way/long time with the economic flight ticket.

- About drinks, according to the rule, you are not allowed to bring liquid including water bottle at the security gate. However, they cannot forbid you to bring the empty bottle, so that you can take water from the waiting room and put it into your bottle (especially in Europe, Singapore). 

Some liquids (e.g. gels, lotions, pastes, liquid cosmetics, foams and other liquid-based items) are now allowed through airport security check points. The following restrictions apply to the quantity of liquids:

• Liquids may only be carried in containers no greater than 100ml.
• These containers must be brought to the airport contained in a single, transparent, re-sealable plastic bag, which itself must not exceed 1 litre in capacity (approximately 20cm x 20cm). The contents of the plastic bag must fit comfortably and the bag must be sealed.
• Each passenger may carry only one such bag of liquids. The bag must be presented for examination.

Liquids that can not be placed inside the re-sealable bag must be packed into the hold luggage and checked in. Liquids of any amount can still be carried in luggage checked into the aircraft hold.

- Baggage: when purchasing flight ticket online, if your are not careful when choosing the type of baggage on consignment, you may pay an extra fee for that, sometimes, it is much more expensive than the flight ticket. In order to be economic and effective, you should arrange your baggage scientifically, lightly to bringing along on the plane instead of consigning. You can choose luggage on consignment for the return way because for sure you will buy some souvenirs or gifts back to your hometown. One more thing that you should take in consideration, you have to check the kilograms of your luggage allowance of the airline you have chosen, or else you may take away some kilograms of your baggage at the airport (or pay some fee for extra kilograms). As reference, you can see:

>>>Tips: Pack Light, Pack Smart" 

Videos "Packing professional"

- There are some requirement for pillow and blanket (often apply for the long way flight): don't be so naive when offering pillow and blanket or else you will be so surprised for the extra fee of 7 USD, for instance. Therefore, the best way is that you ask in detail at the information desk whether you can have free pillow or blanket, so that if they are not free, you can prepare it yourself. The professional backpackers often prepare a pillow and blanket, even sleep-bag. The light blanket and pillow like those in the flight can be bought in the market or some supermarket, or you can buy it online!


Taking everything into account, these are some tips that I gather from my experiences in particular and at some sites in general.

Here are some cheap flight airline websites that you can take as reference. If you have other useful website about cheap flight ticket or the experiences about cheap flight, please share with us in the comment box.

www.attitudetravel.com (synthetize the prices of cheap flight ticket in global)
www.easyjet.com
www.ryanair.com (popular cheap flight airline in Europe)
www.airberlin.com (Germany cheap flight airline to many continents and within Europe)
www.airasia.com (cheap flight airline to Singapore, Thailand, India, Malaysia, in Asia in general)
www.tigerairways.com (Singapore cheap flight airline)
www.cebupacificair.com (The Philippines cheap flight airline)
www.wizzair.com (Cheap flights from UK and Ireland)

- Lee -

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