Be flexible to snag true bargain airfares
Kiplinger’s interviewed Scott Keyes, who writes an email newsletter called Scott’s Cheap Flights. Through it, he sends out international airfare deals to 350,000 subscribers.
Here are excerpts from the interview.
Q.: What’s your number-one rule for finding cheap airfare?
A.: Flexibility. Once you have an origin airport, a destination airport, and a date that’s set in stone, about 95 percent of what you can do to get the price down is already out the window.
The new transatlantic budget carriers, such as Norwegian Air and Wow Air, regularly offer flights to Europe for less than $400 round-trip — from all over the country, not just from New York, L.A. or Miami.
So I’d say $450 to $650 is acceptable, depending on connections and how well the fare jibes with your preferred dates. Anything over $650 or $700, unless you’re buying at the last minute or for very specific dates around holidays, is too much.
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