How to buy a cheap ticket for the holidays

Thoughts about where to go for New Year’s start as early as September. Some even buy tickets on Kupi.com then (madmen or geniuses?). But if you’ve only just decided on your plans, it’s too early to shout: “All is lost!” Not everything is lost, and cheap tickets can still be found. And we’ll tell you how to do it. Since the advice “buy in advance” doesn’t apply here, let’s consider other ways to save.

Don’t be picky

When time is running out, you can’t be choosy. Spontaneous savings on tickets are possible for those who don’t care where they fly. After all, finding cheap tickets for a specific destination is harder, especially a few weeks before the trip.

Change your departure city

This advice is useful if you can easily travel to a neighboring city or country where many European low-cost carriers fly. But even here, you need to be reasonable. If the price difference for tickets from a neighboring city is very small, and you will spend more on a train or bus to get there, then it’s not worth it.

Change your arrival city

The same as above, but in the other direction. Sometimes a ticket to your desired city is more expensive, so look for a flight to a neighboring city. For example, flying to Eindhoven is cheaper than to Amsterdam, and the transfer will take you one to two hours. This advice is more suitable for Europe, as the distance between cities and even countries is small. Even with a bus or train, it often turns out cheaper, and you get to see another city. This also applies to your return flight. You don’t necessarily have to fly back from where you arrived. From neighboring cities, again, it might be significantly cheaper.

Catch a last-minute deal

This advice is for those who won’t be upset if they don’t fly anywhere. They usually wait until the last minute: what if a cheap ticket remains the day before departure? After all, some airlines drastically drop prices in the final days to fill the plane. But this doesn’t always happen and not for popular destinations. If you don’t care whether you fly or not, try your luck. And if it doesn’t work out, you can just go back to salads and sledding in the nearby park.