Flying to European countries whether for business or for leisure is never cheap. As a matter of fact, travelling to European countries is considered one of the most expensive affairs and also a privilege because of its extravagant cultural heritage and historical value.
And surprisingly, the most expensive bit of travel to the European countries come in the form of flight fare including the airlines tickets. European flights are known for their sky rocketed price of tickets be it intercontinental or intra-European travels.
There’s nothing called free lunch around the world and European countries are no exception. But, not to worry, like every situation in this world, there is a way out for this particular situation also. There are various ways by which one can secure a less expensive economic flight ticket to European countries and save up to $500.
Below you will a list of various ways and options that can save you a significant amount of money on flight and airlines tickets while flying to European countries.
- Book round trip ticket: For reasons best known to the airlines company, one way trip is always costlier than the round trip fare. So, booking a round trip fare will save you money guaranteed even if you don’t intend to come back soon and plan to stay in any particular European country for a while. It is a very common and easy way to save money on flights and many travelers travelling one way only also book round way trip just to save money.
- Another good way to save money is to search for budget airlines, there are few airlines who offer direct flights to selected destinations in European countries with considerable less economic amount without any side amenities. Though these airlines cannot be labelled as luxurious, but they do their job perfectly, that is, they fly the travelers to the destination. And in the process, they save few dollars/euros of the travelers.
- Browse your airfares: Though every airlines has their own website providing ticket booking facilities, in order to save money on flights, it is highly advised to search for European flights on various flight search engines and on websites which gives a comparative prices such as Expedia, Priceline and Tripsta. These websites usually gather the flight fare info from various travel agents and other related web sources and then sort them up based on the lowest price first before showing up on your computer screen.
- Another way to save money on your European airfare is to constantly look out for discounts. Most airlines also offer have a discount code/coupon code box when you check out. There are many sites that offer these coupon codes when you google search and we found that FlightDiscountCodes to offer some good discounts codes on majority of airlines.
- If saving money on flight and airlines tickets is your real and one and only concern for Travelling to Europe and if there is no urgency of your visit and it is mainly for leisure purpose, then it is highly recommended that you book your air tickets in the off season which I usually in the winter when the air tickets to travel to European countries are at its lowest.