This is how you find inexpensive Flights

Maybe you have heard about it. Maybe a friend of yours, or a friend of a friend has bought formerly a super low-priced flight. Of course you wanted to understand how he did this. And his answer was of course: "I bought it online!"

Is it really this easy? Just search on the internet and the price decrease that much?

Yes mostly!
Prices online are frequently much cheaper than at your local store. The reasons are unmistakable. Less persons are involved, which means inferior costs, means lower prices. That plain. But i could have answered the statement above also with:

No!
Give me the time to explain this. As i said earlier, yes deals are cheaper online, but there's a big BUT to consider. There isn´t that single large website, which offers you everything you need for the cheapest price. As a matter of fact there is much more rivalry online than offline. For example, ten years ago, you had to walk to a local trip agency to buy a flight. How many of those were within your range? I´m sure not that much. Today there are literally thousands of possibilities of where to buy a flight.

There are still the solid old trip agencys which offer their services offline. Today still newsletter exist, which promise to inform you about super good deals, but send you in fact a lot of Spam Mails. Dont tumble into this traps. Searching for the best deal yourself is at every time the best option.

To get to the point: Never use naive one of those price search engines. Compare the prices as you would do at the local stores. There isn`t the perfect web site which offers you always the best deal, fitting your desire. Every web site got its strong and weak parts. Maybe some web site is able to find the cheapest flight to Europe, but only shows high-priced flights to South America. I think you got the point. There is no one big secret where to find the best flying deals. You have to buy your air tickets online, because that way you can compare the prices on your own and furthermore you dont have to pay a travel agent. But if you made the decision to buy a air ticket online, always make sure to study other shops, as you would offline in your town. That, together with patience, are the true secret behind the "super cheap flights" you´ve heard of.

Thomas Buhl is a german blogger, who regulary writes about, as we say in Germany, Flüge vergleichen and of course about traveling in general.