Wednesday 21 August 2019

How to Travel Cheap with Google flights?


When you see your friends on social media posting pictures of their trips, you must be wondering how they manage to travel in this busy routine. The more important question is how they can afford to go to those exotic locations. The first secret is using Google Flights. However, you must have to know how to use it, what is the secret recipe to get a perfect travel experience at a low price.

To  Find out answers about it, we dug deeper into Google Flight to get the answer. After doing the research, we have got some answers for you. We are sure that after reading this post, you will book your flights more carefully while saving some dollars.


Finding Low-Cost Airlines in Google Flights -   This is the first step to get creative with finding cheap airlines.  It is well known when you are booking the tickets; the expensive flights are shown at the top of your results. So, the first search for a cheap airlines company for your route. Sometimes the regional airlines offer low fare than other airlines.

 Please do a search on the internet about it, then compare them on it. Do not try this on other booking platforms because the final price will include some of their fees. However, Google flights do not do it, so you are going to save some money on it as well.


There is another small tip. Choose your airport wisely. What we mean is, if there are multiple airports in one city, you should check price on Google Flights Search. It gives you the option for choosing an airport so that the airfare would vary. Small airport would have low prices than larger airports. However, it will only work if there is more than one airport in a location. Once you fly to the smaller airport, choose a connecting flight to the main airport. It will be cheaper than directly flying to the main airport. If you do not trust the method, compare them on Google flights. 

Adjusting the time of your traveling - This is where you will have the opportunity to save most of your hard-earned money. First, there are many myths surrounding booking for a flight and booking on a late-night or Tuesday. However, as the internet has boomed, these myths have been completely shattered. The only thing that matters Booking in advance at two months before traveling.

Now, While Booking, use can use the calendar feature in it. It shows you the cheap airfares in green color. However, there is no guarantee you will get a low airfare for your chosen date. So its better if you adjust the time of your traveling.

Once you begin to compare the different prices on various dates, you will how much you are going to save. However, there is one trend we have noticed, in winter the flight prices go low compared to regular prices for the same locations. 

Choosing Flight with Stops -  This is not precisely related to this, but it is essential. If you are planning to travel to an international destination, make sure to check about layover. You can visit a place for free. Not every place allows you to leave the airport, but you can still make it awesome.

Tracking the prices - This is a feature in Google Flights Search. Allow following the latest airfares. You can use this feature to know the real-time price for your chosen trips. The only condition for enabling this feature is to have a Google account.

So, these are some tips you can use to make your travel cheaper. One you think you can do is to travel light. The luggage adds a big chunk of money in your tickets if you have heavy baggage.







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