Dynamics of prices for air tickets for August dates. Low price calendar. How to save on plane tickets: price dynamics
I have been flying for more than ten years, 10-15 times a year.
I spend more than 150 thousand rubles a year on flights, but I would like to spend less.
I figured out what the price of an air ticket depends on. It turned out that there is little benefit, but you can still save on the flight.
Sergey Korol
spends a lot on air tickets
What does the ticket cost consist of?
The ticket consists of the fare, fees and additional seller options. You can't influence the rate and fees, but you can save on seller options.
Rate. This is the cost of a ticket for the airline - for this money it is ready to take you to your destination. The tariff does not depend either on the departure time or on the occupancy of the aircraft. Even if one passenger flies on board, he will pay for the ticket according to the tariff. Airlines change fares, but not often - usually once a season.
If you decide not to fly, the fare will be refunded, either in full or with a fine. Aeroflot's fine for flights within Russia is from 1500 to 2500 RUR, for foreign flights - 50-100 € (3647 -7294 RUR). Other airlines have similar rules.
There are also promotional tariffs, they are the cheapest. But such a ticket cannot be returned or returned; luggage and seat selection on board will be for an additional fee. Low-cost airlines have all promotional rates.
Fees. Additional payments are transferred to the fees: taxes, airport service fees, state taxes and fees, etc. Airline fees also include part of the cost of the flight, such as fuel charges.
Fees depend on the country and airport of departure, as well as on the exchange rate: airlines pay for kerosene in dollars.
Strange fees
In Australia, all passengers pay $42 (1944 RUR) for departure from the country. In the Netherlands - 42 € (3064 R) environmental tax. For a flight from the Bahamas and back you will have to pay an additional $140 (9063 RUR) in taxes.
In the USA, airlines pay fees of 7.5% of the cost of each ticket plus $4 (259 R) for each passenger for takeoff ($8.7 (563 R) for takeoff from Hawaii or Alaska) and $5.6 (363 R) security fee. For international flights, fees increase: $5.5 (356 R) for customs duty, $11 (712 R) for foreign flights, $5 (324 R) for the veterinary control service.
If the passenger returns the ticket, the airline will refund all fees, even for promotional fares.
Seller Options. Airline ticketing sites show airline fares and fees and try to make money on their extra services. The sites sell insurance, SMS notifications, rent out hotels and cars, and offer to register for money.
To save on a ticket, turn off all seller options. Be especially careful when buying a ticket on the website of low-cost airlines: EasyJet, Air Berlin, Rainair, Wizz Air. Low-cost airlines are not shy about including options in the ticket price without asking.
How to buy a ticket more profitably
Travelers have stories about when it is cheapest to buy tickets. Some say that you need to buy it six months in advance, others advise buying it right before departure. In fact, no one knows the best time to buy. The airlines probably know, but they don’t tell us: it’s profitable for them to sell unprofitable tickets.
The American payment company Akorp studied 144 million ticket prices in 2011 and found that it is most profitable to buy a ticket 6 weeks before departure. In Russia in 2017, everything may be different. But there are a couple of simple rules.
Fly on weekdays. I have noticed that tickets on the weekend are usually more expensive than during the week.
If you need to fly on specific dates, you won't be able to save money. But if you are just planning a trip, study the ticket prices in the coming days to the expected departure time. Look in the “Price Dynamics” sections on airline ticket websites.
In winter we flew to Sri Lanka. At first they wanted to return on Sunday. But then we saw that on Tuesday the ticket was 15,000 RUR cheaper. For this money we rented a large villa and rested on the island for two more days.
Subscribe to price changes. Ticket sites offer to sign up for price changes by mail. Once a day they will send you letters “The ticket has become cheaper” or “The ticket has become more expensive”.
A subscription is useful if you are going to fly cheaper, but when is not important. Browse prices and wait for a good option. The price may drop due to a sale or airline special offer. You will see this in the newsletter and buy a ticket.
Pay for your ticket with a credit card. I usually buy tickets in advance and pay with a credit card. This is convenient if you need to buy a ticket for 70,000 R, I can’t spend that kind of money now. Over the course of a month, I gradually return the funds to the card - as if I bought a ticket in installments.
Ticket prices are constantly changing. This service is very popular among travelers. To avoid missing out on your chosen flight, book your seats as soon as you find the right price.
Using the calendar is very simple. Just enter the desired city of arrival and information on the months with the lowest airfare will immediately appear. The months when plane ticket prices will be lower will be highlighted in green. By clicking on the month you are interested in, you will proceed to selecting the day of your flight.
This service is useful for planning a vacation, travel, or just visiting relatives. If you need to fly urgently, use . He will find the cheapest offers, which will be located at the top.
This is what this page looks like when choosing a flight from Moscow to Bangkok for February 2019 for direct round-trip flights.
The most expensive part of any trip is the plane tickets. The cost of a flight is greatly influenced by the time before departure, the availability of seats on board and the popularity of the destination at this time of year.
Nowadays it has become easy to find a good deal. The developed calendar helps you find cheap air tickets online in a few seconds. It will help you decide on flight dates and save money for entertainment on vacation. The more flight dates you check, the higher the chances of purchasing tickets at the lowest cost.
Sometimes there is a desire/opportunity to relax using air transport, or you need to fly for work. The flight planning service, which shows the minimum prices for flights in the month of interest, helps in this situation. You can find out the price and buy air tickets without leaving your home or anywhere you have Internet access. The low-cost flight calendar will be able to find inexpensive flights six months to a year before the planned trip, as well as a couple of hours.
The Low Price Calendar is a very convenient Air Sale tool that allows you to find dates with the cheapest air tickets.
The Aviasale low price calendar will show the cheapest air tickets for the selected destination throughout the year or the desired month. And sometimes prices for air tickets for neighboring dates or in different months differ significantly!
Unlike the Low Price Map, which helps you decide on a destination, the Low Price Calendar will help you decide on your travel dates. And you will find all the search tools on the main page of Aviasale.
How to use the Low Price Calendar?
Searching for cheap air tickets using the low price calendar is as follows:
filter_1 Select the departure city (by default - Moscow)
filter_2 Select your arrival city (Bangkok by default)
filter_3 Choose a round trip or one way flight
filter_4 Please indicate the approximate number of days (stay period) between round trip flights
filter_5 Check the box "Direct flights only" if you do not want to fly with transfers
filter_6 The months with the cheapest air tickets will be highlighted in green. Select the desired month
Important nuance! If you see a “Find” button instead of a price on a certain date, this does not mean that there are no tickets available for that day. This means that visitors to the Aviasale website have not recently looked for tickets for this date. Click "Find" and see the current prices.
The cost of a flight always depends on the time of travel. The chart will allow you to compare prices for air tickets to Moscow, track the dynamics of changes in their cost and find the optimal offer.
Statistics will help determine the season of low prices. For example, in July prices reach an average of 16,076 rubles, and in November the cost of tickets drops to an average of 9,008 rubles. Plan your trip now!
We analyze this information and create charts to make it easier for you to plan your trips.
What is more profitable – to buy air tickets in advance, avoiding the general rush, or to take advantage of a “hot” offer closer to the departure date? The chart will help you determine the best time to purchase airline tickets.
See how the price of air tickets to Moscow changed depending on the time of purchase. Since the start of sales, their value has changed by an average of 118%. The minimum price for a flight to Moscow is 8 days before departure, approximately 10,709 rubles. The maximum price for a flight to Moscow is 23 days before departure, approximately 24,713 rubles. In most cases, early booking helps you save money, take advantage of it!
The cost of air tickets to Moscow does not represent a fixed and constant amount. It depends on many factors, including the day of departure. The dynamics of changes are visible on the graph.
According to statistics, the most affordable option for flights to Moscow is on Fridays, their average cost is 11,159 rubles. The most expensive flights are on Saturdays, their average cost is 14,289 rubles. It is worth considering that flights on holidays are usually more expensive. We hope this information will help you plan your travels more effectively.
Airplane tickets are the most expensive part of any trip. Is this why the Internet is filled with all sorts of “life hacks” telling how to buy cheap air tickets?
Unfortunately, most of the tips either don’t work at all or provide meager savings that are incommensurate with the hours, or even days, spent on the search. This happens because the decisive role in the cost of a ticket is played by the season, the time remaining before departure, and the degree of occupancy of the flight. The rest is pure lottery.
And if previously it took a long time, sometimes weeks, to “catch” the coveted ticket, now it has become much easier. Online help us buy air tickets cheaply and quickly low price calendar from company Aviasales. You can start searching right away, or read to the end and learn how to use it with maximum efficiency.
For those who don’t know, Aviasales.ru is a popular search aggregator that searches for cheap air tickets online for 728 airlines. In some ways it is better than other search engines, in some ways it is perhaps worse. However, it has a “trick”, thanks to which many tourists prefer it Aviasales, — a calendar of low prices for air tickets.
First of all, this tool will be useful for those who have not yet decided on a travel date and are ready to adjust it to a successfully found plane ticket. The calendar covers no less than a year from the date of the search. That is, you can see which of the next 364 days has the lowest prices for the destination you need.
Search for air tickets in the low price calendar
Having gone to the page we need on the website aviasales.ru, we see an intuitive search window.
Having indicated the departure city, we come across the first hint on how to use the calendar of low prices for air tickets. Please note that in the “City/Country of Destination” field the default value is not the banal “Specify airport”, but “Any country”. This is no coincidence.
Let's say you have a certain amount of money and a desire to fly somewhere, either in the summer or right now. Where - it's deep purple for you, in any direction where there are cheap plane tickets. Select the dates you want, click “Show prices” and voila! Here is a whole list of ideas for a budget vacation.
A more common option is that we know where and when (at least approximately) we want to go. We just need cheap online, using the low price calendar. In this case, you should indicate the city, or better yet, the country of destination. The “broader” the search parameters, the more complete the result. And we will always have time to clarify. Please note that you can search for both round-trip and one-way tickets.
For example, we have a desire to visit Bulgaria. We indicate the country and immediately receive the next hint. Near some months the letter “i” appears with information about interesting events occurring during this period. We take note and mark the months manually, or select the time of year.
Aviasales.ru also allows you to search for air tickets in the low-price calendar by exact dates. This is not a measly +/- 3 days, like most other search engines. Let's say you have the opportunity to fly only on weekends. Instead of checking each weekend individually, you simply mark all applicable dates. This is just an example of how easy it is to plan a “weekend tour”. In general, the capabilities of this tool are limited only by your imagination.
Having decided on the dates, all we have to do is choose the duration of the vacation. This is the period of time in which the calendar will search for us the lowest prices for round-trip air tickets. Again, the larger the range, the higher the chances of finding “delicious” offers. Perhaps by moving your planned vacation just a couple of days, you can save a lot on tickets.
Low Price Calendar: Selection of Cheap Air Tickets
Having played enough with all the available search parameters, let’s click on the “Show prices” button. The first thing we see is another hint, a graph of plane ticket prices by month. By hovering the cursor over it, we see the dynamics of price changes throughout the year, and we are convinced that the period we chose turned out to be very successful for traveling to Bulgaria.
The dates for which you can buy the cheapest air ticket are marked in green, which makes the online low-price calendar even more convenient. You can go directly to the appropriate option, or use the filters in the right column.
- The cheapest, perhaps, needs no explanation. These are air tickets at the lowest price.
- Fast flights- for those who value time more than money. Here are the flights with the minimum travel time. As a rule, these are non-stop air tickets, which by definition cannot be cheap.
- Long vacation— a selection of plane tickets with a maximum interval between arrival and departure.
Next, you can change the previously specified duration of vacation, which will lead to a change in the cost of tickets online. Also, the calendar of cheap air tickets allows you to set the minimum and maximum prices, mark the display of only non-stop flights in the results, and change the currency.
Having chosen the date carefully suggested to us, we will see the three most inexpensive air tickets for that date.
Opposite the price is the date when the ticket was added to the system. The less time has passed since it was added, the greater the chance that it has not yet been purchased. By clicking on the arrow, you can expand more detailed information about each of the options: departure time, airline, flight duration...
After making sure that the air ticket suits us, we take out a credit card and click on the “Buy” button. A few seconds of waiting, and unexpected severe disappointment.
Low price calendar: how not to miss the cheapest air ticket
How so? After all, the ticket was added just an hour ago! That's exactly it, unfortunately. While you and I were looking at the details and taking screenshots, someone more agile stole our flight from under our noses. Calendar of low prices from aviasales.ru is extremely popular, and we are not the only ones sitting online trying to buy a cheap air ticket. Perhaps it's worth dwelling on this point a little. The calendar is compiled based on the search results received by users Aviasales in the last 48 hours. To make it clearer, let's take our case. About an hour before us, someone X I was looking for a very specific flight, Moscow - Burgas, on a specific date. The system gave him “our” air ticket and, if someone X I didn’t buy it or there were several tickets, then I automatically added them to the low price calendar.
Since the difference with neighboring dates was about 1000 rubles, it is not surprising that these particular tickets were sold out in just an hour. Especially considering that May 14 is a Saturday, when flights are more expensive than on weekdays.
Notice how aviasales.ru assesses the relevance of a particular offer online. If a cheap air ticket appeared recently (usually, no more than 2-3 hours ago, depending on the popularity of the destination), then opposite it there will be the coveted “Buy” button. Literally a few hours later it is replaced by another button, “Find”. This means that the information may be out of date and if we click on the link, we will most likely see a higher price.
There are exceptions. For example, one of the air tickets found at our request, Moscow - Varna, was added 2 days ago with a price of 14,687 rubles.
By clicking “Find” we see that the ticket is still available. Moreover, it costs even a little less, 14,413 rubles.
