Frequent fliers typically pride themselves on their ability to snag cheap airplane tickets and cheap vacation packages. Although such deals remain available, airlines this year have been holding back offering deep discounts during prime summer travel periods.
Nevertheless US carriers have offered sales for domestic and international flights thing spring at terrific prices. Examples include Delta Air Lines offering fares on Tuesday, February 15th, to select European cities for as low as $138 round trip with taxes included. These prices were only good for a couple of hours.
This was the third time since late last year that airlines have offered temporary, but massively lower prices. Both Delta and Lufthansa have offered very cheap fares for a limited time in the past few months.
Unfortunately the unexpected and short-term nature of the cheapest sale prices makes it difficult for travelers to find them.
Other types of sales are easier to find. Typical airline sales are good from Tuesdays through Thursdays. The week of February 14th Southwest Airline offered many of its U.S. routes for as low as $138 per round trip, with blackout days around Easter, Fridays, and Sundays. Other airlines cut their prices temporarily to match Southwest.
One of the ways to keep informed of falling prices is to sign up for a travel Internet companys travel alerts which notify customers when prices fall or when they hit predetermined levels requested by customers.
Also customers would be wise to be ready to purchase airline tickets and travel packages at a moments notice since often the best deals last only a very short time.
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