Flying can be incredibly expensive. Here are some tips to help make the process a little less expensive for travelers.

1. TRAVEL FRUGALLY: THE
SECRETS TO BOOKING
CHEAP FLIGHTS

2. Flying can be incredibly
expensive. With every passing
year, airlines find new ways to
add on more fees, and the prices
of flights seem to increase
exponentially. Many people are
often discouraged by the
exorbitant prices for flights, and
write vacations and travel off as
an impossible notion.

3. But vacationing doesn’t have to
feel impossible, especially when
it comes to flights! There are
quite a few tips and tricks that
one can use in order to keep
flight costs low, and maximize
the amount of money you have
to spend on your vacation. Here
are a few of the best kept secrets
about finding a cheap flight:

4. Clear Your Browser

5. That is, clear your browser’s cookies. If
you’re not tech savvy, and don’t know
what that means, that’s okay. In short,
every time you do a search or access
anything on your browser (Internet
Explorer, Firefox, or Google Chrome),
your browser creates and saves a story
of what you access. The process of
saving that “story” is called a cache,
and those stories are called cookies.

6. This means that if you’re searched for a
particular flight before, or if you’re
refreshing your page hoping the price
will drop over time, your searches may
be working against you. The airlines
use your cookies to track which flights
you want to take; your interest alerts
them to the “demand”, and flight
prices may actually go up.

7. Combating the potential
increase in flight pricing is pretty
simple. Just go into your browser
and clear your browsing history,
cache, and cookies. Don’t know
how? Just go to these links for
step-by-step instructions:

8. Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome

9. Never Start Your Trip
on a Friday or Sunday

10. Studies have shown that the
most popular days to fly are
Fridays and Sundays. This makes
sense, because people usually
want to avoid taking additional
vacation days that will be lost to
the flight itself; most people
would rather sacrifice their built
in days off, while keeping their
Saturdays untouched.

11. The popularity of those
Friday and Sunday flights
means that the prices of
flights are much higher. Our
advice to you is to take the
hit on your allotted vacation
time and fly midweek
(Tuesday or Wednesday) or
on Saturday.

12. While those are definitely
less favorable days to fly, the
flight prices will be much
lower. Airlines want to avoid
having empty seats on these
less popular flights; the
flights still have to run even if
they are not full and:

13. Empty seats = Money Lost