Very often, when you want to get good deals on airline tickets, you wait for the ads to tell you that the airfare price warfare times are on, or for your travel agent to tell you more about bargain fares.
To be sure, there are great bargains to be made during the airfare price wars. When travel volumes are slow, airlines frequently slash their regular rates to entice people to buy tickets. During such times, the best deals often go to the early comers, so it pays to track Internet fares, regularly scan business and travel sections in the newspapers, and leave word with your travel agent to always alert you when special fare offers are in effect.
In the meantime, you may want to consider the following ways to get good airline ticket deals.
There may be cheaper fares available when you call airlines between midnight and 1am during weekdays. Airline agents usually recalculate and load new fares into the computer networks at midnight. During that one-hour window, a handful of rock-bottom fares can be up for grabs.
Fares are cheaper for mid-week flights. If you can fly out any day between Tuesday to Thursday, and stay over a Saturday night, you can...