Compare airline prices. Utilize the services of travel websites by inputting your departure city, arrival city and travel dates. You'll be able to see the prices of multiple flights on multiple airlines by submitting your search.
Allow for flexibility in your plans. Airlines don't always charge the same price for the exact same flight they make every day. Check your dates to see if changing your itinerary by a day will make a difference in the price of your airfare.
Purchase your tickets in advance, preferably between one and four months in advance. Supply and demand is a factor in raising the cost of flights and the longer you wait to book your ticket the likelihood of prices going up is greater.
Book a your flight to Las Vegas and your hotel as a package. Travel websites such as Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz sell these packages to travelers. You get to choose your package based on your budget, which often provides significant savings versus booking flights and hotels separately.
Expand your airfare search to include nearby airports. For example, if you are flying to Las Vegas from New York City, don't limit your flight search to one NYC airport; include them all.Your flight to Las Vegas from JFK could end up being less expensive than flying from LaGuardia or Newark Liberty. As of January, 2011, a roundtrip flight from JFK to Las Vegas departing on a Monday and returning on Friday was $354 including taxes on Virgin Air through Expedia, versus $409 on a different airline. The roundtrip price departing and return on the same dates from Newark Liberty through Expedia was $299.
