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10 ways to get Cheap Airline Tickets and Discount Airfare

1. The most important way to get cheap tickets and discount airfare is to be very flexible with your travel dates and days, and plan ahead. Air travel departing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday tend to have low airfares, and more availability. The airlines price airfares based on supply and demand.
2. Surf the web and find the lowest published airfare for your itinerary, then compare your cheap airfares with the lowest consolidator airfares at www.discountairfare.com.
3. Fly during 'off-peak' seasons. As a general guide, “high season” is the summer months (June, July, and August, as well as the week before and after Christmas) “shoulder season” is March, April, May, and September, October and November. “Low season”, January and February, is when you can get really great discount tickets.
4. For US Travel, really early morning or red-eye flights are usually the last to be purchased, so the airlines will usually discount those airfares.
5. Purchase airline tickets from discount-airfare.com to fly on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, or the 4th of July at least 30 days in advance, instead of the days just prior.
6. Check to see if your itinerary still has a ‘Saturday night stay’ requirement. Routes that are highly traveled by Business persons usually require a Saturday night stay.
7. Check round-the world discount airfares instead of point to point if you are planning a world travel trip to multiple continents.
8. Some airlines will discount tickets for itineraries with a connecting flight at their hub.
9. For discount travel and discount airfare to Europe, London is a great place to fly into, regardless of your European destination. There are many cheap airfare European carriers such as Buzz, Go, and Easy jet. There is a downside to flying most low-cost European carriers: They don't have inter-line baggage agreements with larger carriers. That means you will have to get your bags and go to the counter to recheck them.
10. Check to see if your itinerary has a code share flight. A code-share flight is one airline sells tickets under its name for a flight operated by a partner airline. You may find, for example, that your Continental flight to Phoenix is in fact an America West code share flight with America West flight crew on an America West aircraft.

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