How do you find the cheapest flight tickets?
Norwegians love to travel, but hate paying too much for their trip. Nothing pleases us more than making a travel bargain. But how do you know which destinations to look out for and how to get the most for your money?
A good clue is to follow the prices of the airlines’ new flight routes. This is an overview of which places will appear on the airlines’ “good buy list” in the future.
Profitable effort
The more effort you put into the work, the greater the chance of making a decent travel bargain. And as always: It is smartest and safest to buy tickets directly from the airline or an established and well-known travel agency, not via search engines with poor customer follow-up.
The flight has two prices: the one you pay when booking and the one you pay if something goes wrong on the journey.
What does it mean?
When an airline opens a new flight route, it is important to hit the mark from day one. Nobody likes to fly with empty seats, and filling up the planes is a high priority.
Airports also want to fill all regular playing times. That is why they are happy to sponsor the airline that has created new flight routes to its airport.
– Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) slots, or simply slots, are part of the traffic flow management, and in Europe this is centralized at Eurocontrol in Brussels. A slot, or time slot to be precise, is given due to traffic restrictions at an airport or in an airspace, explains chief pilot Rasmus Ilsø Olsen in SAS to the airline’s own website.
This is how the “new” Oslo Airport will be
– The air space can, for example, be crowded by several causes. This could be a lack of staff/air traffic controllers or it could be bad weather. The slot usually shows the calculated take-off time (Calculated Take-Off Time, CTOT).
Have they traveled?
– CTOT is the time, with a window of -5/+10 minutes, when the aircraft must be on the runway, ready for departure. The slot time also controls other standardized actions, for example when the aircraft can leave the gate (Target Off Block Time, TOBT) and when the engine can start (Target Start-up Approval Time, TSAT), explains Rasmus Ilsø Olsen.
When you watch On Avinor’s website you will be able to read that the flight has departed from the airport, while in reality it is still standing with closed doors at the bridge (the gate to the plane) or is at the de-icing machine.
Are you using the app or the website Flight aware you will be able to follow most flights in the world in real time.
Not too late
You should do this
To follow the airlines’ campaigns, you should register for the newsletter. You can do this for free via the website of the respective airlines.
Pay particular attention to campaigns that start right after major holidays.
You can start planning now by taking a look at the airlines’ new routes for 2023.
This means the color of the passport
Be aware that there may be changes due to the fact that planned new routes were not started after all or that even more routes appear than the airlines have an overview of so far.