Buying international air tickets can be challenging in terms of getting the best rates. If you do not know how and where to buy the tickets you might end up paying more than 3 times the regular fare. This article will guide you on how to get the best deals on air fares to countries in Asia. Follow the steps below:
Plan in advance. I suggest you anticipate your Asia trip at least 6 months ahead of your travel date
Avoid traveling on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. International fares are generally higher on these days.
Do not wait for the 'Last minute deals' this way you could lose a lot of money as well as time
Search fares at Kayak.com. This is a relatively new search engine that uses sites like Orbitz or Expedia to retrieve the best fares. It consolidates the results from numerous travel search engines and displays the results at one click. It is like searching fares on hundreds of those individual sites. You can also filter and sort results instantly depending on the choice of your airlines, time, date, number of stop-overs, etc.
Even if you found the fare you were looking for do not make your plans in haste. Save your search criterion at Kayak.com and choose to receive daily or weekly fare alerts. Book when the fares hit lowest value.
Finally, do not forget to search flights directly at all the major airlines' individual websites that fly to your destination country. It is not infrequent for the the travel search engines such as Orbitz, Expedia or Kayak.com to not list an airlines that offered the least fare.
Call your travel agent to see if they have any better deals to offer than what you found online.
