Buying flight tickets has never been that easy with all the flight comparators available in the market. In this article, I will show you the best tips to buy your flight tickets. Let’s go!
🛒 How to Buy Your Tickets
Here is the best way to buy your flight tickets:
Google Travel
🌐 google.com/travel/flights
🔎 Compare flight tickets and explore destinations
ℹ️ Description
I use Google Travel to buy my tickets because the Flights section gives me the best flight ticket prices. It can also give me a date grid where I can compare different combinations of dates.
Google Travel: Flights
Google Travel: Flights (Date Grid)
Moreover, when I don’t have inspiration on where to travel, I use the Explore section where I can compare the flight tickets prices for different destinations, visually on the map.
Google Travel: Explore
Finally, the Things to do section helps me see the different landmarks of the city I might go to.
Google Travel: Things To Do
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👍 The Best Tips to Buy Your Tickets
🛒 Buy with travel brokers
🤑 Get the cheapest flight tickets
Google Travel: Flights Prices With Brokers
Everybody heard a story about something going wrong if you buy your flight ticket from an internet broker. Because of that, I was previously buying exclusively from the airline website directly in order to avoid any issues. However, I started recently to book my flight tickets from the brokers advertised by the flight comparators, because I was thinking that if they were advertising these brokers, it means that they can be trusted, otherwise the flight comparators would have blacklisted them a long time ago. Since then, I always book the cheapest tickets available which are mostly sold by brokers, and I didn’t have any issues so far.
However, if you need to register luggage or have more flexibility on your dates, you might pay a more expensive price for these options with the brokers. Also, in case of an issue, you might have to deal with the brokers (I haven’t experienced it so far).
To summarize, I would recommend you buy your flight tickets with brokers in order to pay the cheapest price possible only if you don’t need flexibility with your flights.
💳 Pay with a premium card
🧳 Get a free travel insurance
Visa Premier Card
Visa Infinite Card
Mastercard Gold Card
Mastercard World Elite Card
When I pay for my flight tickets, I always use a premium credit/debit card (ex: Visa Premier, Mastercard Gold, Visa Infinite, Mastercard Gold Elite), in order to be covered by the travel insurance of the card.
💡 You don’t need to subscribe anymore to the travel insurance offered by the broker you book your ticket with.
Here is a few examples of what travel insurance covers:
- 🧳 Delayed luggage
- 🧳 Lost/stolen/damaged luggage
- ✈️ Delayed flights
- ❌ Cancelled/Modified/Interrupted travel
- 🚑 Medical transport/repatriation assistance abroad
- 🏥 Medical assistance abroad
⚠️ To be covered by the card travel insurance, you need to:
1. Pay your ticket with the premium card.
2. If you have an issue, you need to warn the premium card insurance company as soon as possible, before spending on anything.
On my side, this travel insurance helped me when I got delayed luggage: I got reimbursed by the travel insurance of the card I paid for my travel with, as well as by the airline, for all the costs related to necessary things I needed to buy (toilet kit, clothes, shoes, etc).
✈️ Get reimbursed for delayed flights
🤑 Get compensation after 3h+ of delay
If your flight has a 3h+ delay compared to the scheduled arrival time of your flight, you can for compensation. Here are a few examples:
| < 1,500 km flight | 250€ |
| 1,500 km+ flight inside 🇪🇺 | 400€ |
| Flight with between 1,500 km and 3,500 km outside 🇪🇺 | 400€ |
| 3,500 km+ flight outside 🇪🇺 | 600€ |
These conditions give you an idea about what you might be able to claim. You will need to check the reason for the delay to be sure that you claim something.
Conclusion
You have now all the tips I use when I buy my flight tickets. Good luck 🤑!