How to Find Online Flight Tickets for International Flights?

International flights from US are sought for different destinations around the globe. There are different motives for which the people want to travel to the other countries. The most fundamental of these motives is the willingness to see the different cultures. People have the urge to meet the people of other cultures, exchange the ideas, explore their histories and geographies, wonder at their architectural feats, prospect for trade and business opportunities and many more. 

When the airline industry was not in existence, these motives strongly influenced people to venture out to other lands for exploration, either by sea or by land routes. In our age, there could be many more motives but the basic ones at the core remain the same. The quest for cheapest international flights is, therefore, an activity that initiates this process of international travel.

So, the way the online flight tickets for international flights are to be found remain the same. The only difference is that some additional points can also be looked into. Here the main focus is to highlight those additional points which can allow you to have low price tickets.

             a)      Look for tickets on flag carriers of the countries where you want to go

If you are flying to Dubai, why not check the prices at Emirates or Etihad as well? Similarly, if going to any city in Japan, why not consider fares of ANA? And, likewise, it always pays to check the fares from other international carriers, not just the US airlines.

      b)      Consider ancillary fees or charges which you have to pay

Most of the time, the ancillary charges are not counted for or are ignored when it comes to online flight tickets reservations as the focus is on published fares. These charges are related to baggage, excess baggage, meals, paid seats and others. Some airlines do follow differential seating pricing and have charges for check in bags. Some others might allow some free check in baggage allowances. So, these ancillary sources of revenues for the airlines is something which passengers shall prevent incurring.  

          c)       Do not ignore connecting flights

Passengers generally tend to fly in direct flights which can take them to their destination in the shortest possible time frame. However, there are many more connecting flights, with stopovers at different destinations within US or at other international cities. These flying options can prove to be a lot more feasible for providing low cost international air tickets. If you are flexible with your flying plan and are ready to spend a day or two, or some hours at the minimum, then these flight connections could be really useful tools for saving money on tickets.

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Marks of a Turnaround- Spirit Airlines Records the Best On-time Performance

This is a news which most of the people who fly different US airlines, including Spirit Airlines, would not have expected. The airline which most of the experts in US aviation circles would have written-off a few years back, has recorded the best on-time performance for the month of October of 2018. This astonishing 89% record is something for which Spirit Airline can pat itself on the back. Not only has the airline recorded the best punctuality but has also recorded the least cancellations. Many have already started pointing to the beginning of this turnaround for this airline which has been in news in the past mostly for negative reasons.

Spirit is known to be harsh to passengers in not providing free baggage allowance (many airlines now doing it as well) and not providing any entertainment or refreshments. Another incident which has made it quite infamous is that of the strike of pilots, first for salaries and then for flying the additional routes. With that incident put to past now with hike in salaries of pilots, the focus has shifted to operation efficiencies which can turn the fortunes of the airline around.

So, what is it that has led Spirit to make this change? Whether this is going to be a one-time affair or is going to remain there on a regular basis is something which future will tell, but lets us find out what led to this improved performance standard.

At first, the airline is fortunate to have most of its departure flights from south of the country. This part of the country does not have weather extremities on such a regular basis as the north-eastern part of the country. This does not lead too many cancellations or other disruptions.  

Second important reason is that the airline’s efforts to streamline the cabin baggage loading on plane by passengers has been quite successful. This is something on which other airlines are also working. But, it is only the Spirit airlines which has been successful in using it to this level.

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What Would You Expect An Online Travel Company To Do?

Whenever you have to plan a journey, travel agent is one of the first persons you want to contact. A flight booking agent can help you with the most suitable flights whereas the travel company can also tell about the destinations, hotel stays and guide you on local transportation. There could be quite a few agencies that you would contact. So, which online travel company do you prefer to contact first, and what makes you believe that this particular one shall be contacted ahead of others. Here is a set of guidelines which tell which airline is the best one to go ahead with.

1. Does the agency understand your travel needs?

Most often it is the flight agent who understands your precise requirements that will suit you the most. So is the case with the travel agency. Mind you, this is not the flight or travel agency which helps you to save more money which you would like to call first. It is that agent or agency that understands your precise requirements and is able to provide reasonable options that would be the first to be contacted.

2. How many and what options does it provide?

If you are looking for options, you could be looking for many or a few, depending on what is driving your travel plans. So, if the agent is sensible, the focus shall not be just on showing the maximum number of options but also on giving the right options. In providing these options, it shall not look as if your interests are being ignored or overlooked. This would be possible when the options provided appeal to you right away. Agent has to be alert to this requirement in order to retain your trust. 

3. Keeping you informed about the deals

If you are a good customer of any online travel company, then it must send you the best of its flight deals. Whether you fly on specific routes or are likely to visit new places provided you get a good deal for, your agent shall be able to inform you ahead of others. If it does not, and you get to know from some other source about the existence of such deal which could have suited you, there will be a decline in faith with the travel or flight agent. So, it is up to the flight company or the travel agency, as the case may be, to provide the best deals.

It can take any medium to provide this information to you. Whether by SMS on phone, an email or just by phone call, it shall be able to communicate the same to you.

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How to Know About Lowest Air Fares Ahead of Others?

Skyscanner Price Alert Feature

Airlines have limited seats on a particular flight. Therefore, if you are among the many others looking for flying on a particular flight, you might have to pay a good price if the flight has good demand. Therefore, the most common suggestion is to book early lest the seats will go away or will become expensive. There can also be a situation wherein you are willing to wait till the time the price of the ticket will be brought down.

You might be having all the time to wait till the price drops to a certain level. However, as and when it happens, you would certain like to be the first to know about the fare drop to your desired level. In US aviation market, by virtue of high air traffic, the domestic flight booking is done using all types of ways and means to get the lowest airfares. And, prospective passengers would certainly like to know by all means possible when prices have dropped so that they can book the domestic flights at the earliest and get the benefits.

Here are some of the methods which travelers use to be informed ahead of others about flight ticket prices.

a)      Subscribe to fare alerts: Many websites provide the facility of setting up the fare alerts for a particular route. The visitors have to enter the price they are looking for. They also have to provide a way of communication about the alert. This could be their telephone number or email, or both, if they want to receive notification through SMS or Email respectively.

b)      Subscribe to newsletters: At times, the ticketing companies might not publish the rates for the public, but could send exclusive offers through emails. Therefore, it pays to subscribe to newsletter of those companies that have the reputation of offering best airfares.

c)       Subscribe to push notifications: Push notifications can be irritating but these can also be tremendously helpful in knowing about hot deals. These work to inform you about the domestic or international flight ticket prices when you are not logged in to your email account.

Do try out these methods of finding the cheap tickets much before others can know about these and proceed with air ticket reservations at best prices.

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Don’t Let Those Cookies Deny You Cheap Air Tickets

It is quite common for people to search for cheap air tickets on the internet, on different websites, be these of airlines, agencies or the so-called fare compare ones. In order to make these searches, people have to make use of the web-browsers. Some of the most popular web browsers are Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc. These are used for visiting the various web resources on which the flight searches are conducted for knowing the prices. An innocent, or rather, an ignorant visitor would simply check for the prices that are shown and believe these to be the cheapest that are provided by the website. This might not be the case. It is the cookies, a software code, that might deny you just what you are after- the cheapest air tickets.

How it all happens?

If a website asks you to accept its cookies policy and you accept the same, the website leaves a cookie on your system. This cookie can store different types of data from your system, most notably the browsing behavior data. This data can clearly show what the person is after. This might tell which route or destination tickets you are looking, for which dates and other details. The website can then make use of this data to increase their flight ticket prices in order to deny you the advantage of booking tickets at lower prices. Therefore, expert travelers would always recommend the following steps:

a)      Do not accept the cookie policy in the first instance itself. If the website does not allow you access ahead if this is not accepted, and you do need to visit it, then it is a compulsion that you have to agree to its cookie policy.

b)      You can always delete the cookies from the browsers as a second option to prevent cookies from interfering in your searches.

c)       You shall make the searches in the incognito or private browsing window. It is called Incognito browsing in Google Chrome and Private New Window in Mozilla Firefox. This is a mode of browsers in which the history of browsing and cookies are not stored.

Either of these three methods of clearing the cookies shall be used in order to find the lowest airfare tickets.

As a further step, it is always better to read through the cookie policies of the website you visit before accepting them on your system. 

Cookies are used in a good way nowadays for re-marketing campaigns. If you have visited a particular product page on any website and have added the product to cart or reached at a certain level of purchase process, but do not buy it, then these cookies will help in offering further discounts on that product through ads. This is to help buyers purchase the product. However, this can be used in just the opposite way as well. The airline flight ticket booking websites might not show the cheapest prices available to you if these find that you have been hopping on and off on them for the last few days for some specific flight route.

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Impact of Project NextGen On Miami Flights and Its Residents

For those who do not know about the NextGen, let us briefly describe what it is all about. NextGen is a FAA project which seeks to enhance aviation operation in certain air corridors of the country, banking on improved satellite-based navigation systems. It seeks to do away with the ground-radar based navigation and will start using satellite for navigation and guidance. Due to the latter being more precise over flight paths, it is possible to incorporate more flights by reducing the existing conventional flight bands. South and Central Florida is one of the corridors chosen for this project.

In all, this corridor has about 21 airports and the testing would be done on the flight corridors of these airports. One of the cities which is going to experience both the pros and the cons of this project is that of Miami. People throng to Miami all through the year. It is one of those cities which has high air travelling traffic. 

With this project, it would be possible for more direct flights being flown to Miami from different domestic and international destinations and vice versa. Direct flights mean that there will be reduction in consumption of fuel. The reduction in the fuel consumption would result in offering of cheap flight tickets to Miami for the benefit of travelers to this city.

Shrinkage of the flight band means that the new bands would be available for accommodating more flights but this bound to increase the noise levels for the communities that live in those corridor regions. With increased frequency of flights, the neighborhood is most likely to have sleep interruptions in night, and an all-day flight noise which can lead to deterioration of health. 

The consequences of increasing the concentration of flights are, therefore, being brought to the notice of the courts with the ultimate objective of compelling the FAA of seeing the downsides of the project.

Quite clearly, people are not going to fall for the promised cheap air tickets and would rate peaceful living surrounding much higher than reduced fare prices.

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LCC Model And Cheap International Flights

When Southwest ushered in the low cost model of operation of airlines, it was a new beginning which many would not have anticipated to run into profits. There is always a challenge to change and this happened in the case of Southwest as well. However, the airline was able to gauge the need of the people to have low airfare tickets, especially on flying on small distance routes.

 It began to do its calculus on how best this need of the people can be met. The whole initiative was to look inwards and do what can be done at the operational level in order to meet this demand. This proved to be path-breaking and the airline became a raging success story, which was to be followed globally with many other airlines emerging around the globe functioning on same or similar low cost model.

Let us briefly look into what this airline model of LCC requires and then we will describe how the model was also applied to international routes. So, the low-cost-carrier model requires the following changes to be made to airline operations:

1        1.       Point to point flights

          2.       Flight duration of about 4-5 hours maximum

          

         3.       Short flight routes. In a large country, this essentially means coverage of domestic routes but                can also be international ones.

        4.       No-frills services. This means that no complimentary foods when you buy flight tickets. These           are paid in nature.

        5.       Operation of only economy cabin class. You would usually not find business or first class cabin            classes on these airlines.

       

       6.       Reluctance to offer frequent flyer programs. Some LCC airlines might not be having any                      loyalty rewards program to maintain simplicity of operations.

      7.       Price of air tickets can change within a short period of time as the seats on these flights are                   demand driven.

      8.       Focus on reducing the maintenance costs of airplanes.

      

      9.       Focus on operational efficiencies and lesser turnaround times.

These are some of high points of low cost carrier model of the airline. Now, cheap international flights offered by these airlines are generally for the short haul routes which can be reached in a span of a few hours. Passengers gain with the offer of these discounted fares on international routes as LCCs compete directly with the full-service carriers in the neighborhood of the country. Whether it is flights to Canada or any of the Central American countries from the southern cities of USA, the low cost model of operation of flights gives a fair bit competition to the full-service carriers.

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How to Prepare For a Safe Solo Travel?

There is a no better way of exploring any destination than by visiting it solo. When you are with no one else but on your own, the freedom of doing, seeing and thinking the way you want is simply unmatched. Singles traveling can be absorbing and enhances self-learning many folds. While traveling alone, the most important concern is about the safety and security of the self. Whether you are a man or a woman, the consideration of safety applied to both equally, and more so for the women folk. So, how shall you make the preparations for the solo travel?

Check for the destination security on the internet

If you want to visit a particular place, it is easy to check the news of that place online. Check for the past few months news archives about that place and you will find a lot of information that is available on the net. If you find that no major incident of heinous or violent type, that shall reassure you. However, if you find that there have been some incidents of late, it is better to make another round of checks before finalization that destination in your itinerary. News items, videos, articles, blogs all can help in this respect.

Check with Foreign Ministry Advisories

The foreign ministry often issue advisories to its people cautioning them against traveling to certain countries. That shall be heeded to. This advisory might be of different levels and the meaning of each level shall be clearly known.

Check with Your Countries Mission in the Destination Country

Another way of checking the safety is to consult your country’s embassy in that country. The embassy maintains a watchful eye on the events taking place and notes the general mood of the people in different parts of that country. Consulting with them can be really helpful.

Check with the Near and Dear Ones

If there is some person close to you who has visited this place in the recent past, it is better to check with them. They can share their valuable inputs and give you an idea of what can be expected.

Book a Package with Reputed Agency

Why not book a package with a reputed travel agency. These agencies have the experience and expertise in offering travel deals for a particular destination. These are well aware of the locale and can provide any help at the ground level. So, this is another way of safe traveling alone. You can also negotiate not just the solo flight deals but also hotel stays with the agency.

While making these checks, please keep the whole itinerary in mind. If it is a multi-city trip, you might need to check for the multiple destinations and also how will you be traveling between these.

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