There is nothing more interesting in life than travel. Each journey is like a separate life, when you live with great pleasure, when you rejoice in everything new and unknown, and each time you want to explore this wonderful world more and more. Fortunately, we have Google Maps, thanks to which new opportunities appear. And thanks to which you can share your impressions of the visited place or leave important information. Personally, I prefer to share information about absolutely all the places I’ve visited, whether it is the Eiffel Tower or a regular fast food restaurant. However, most of all I like to share shops and restaurants. Every traveler should know the pricing policy for food in the country or city where he intends to go. In addition, it is very interesting to compare prices.
I really look forward to every upcoming trip, because ahead of me is waiting for beauty and innovation, which I have not yet seen and about which I really want to leave a review and share important information. And I really want more such trips and that the road does not take much time. There is one way everyone should knows about it: low-cost airlines ?
An airline flight between European countries, for example, from Wroclaw, where I live now, to Barcelona, Paris, Rome or Oslo for the price of 15 euros - it’s been a long time not a joke, but a reality. Thus, most European students move across the continent, who are not too fond of throwing money into the wind. An average Irish from Dublin can one evening refuse to go out with friends in a fairly average pub and for this money buy a low-cost ticket to Munich and back.
However, it is very important to understand that free cheese is only in a mousetrap and the leaders of these cheap airlines do not do charity. Low-cost airlines go to earn. Naturally, these airlines do not sell all tickets for a flight at a penny price. Typically, such tickets may be 10-15 for the entire flight. The next 20 tickets will be 20 euro more expensive. The next is more expensive. The one who buys tickets in the last turn usually pays in times more expensive than the one who did it in 2 months. Also, companies will earn additional services and inattention of passengers. After all, for a couple of euros, we buy the simplest basic tariff, and for baggage, registration at the airport must be paid extra and a lot. If all were flying for 10-15 euros, the company would have easily gone bankrupt. Sophisticated and well-trained travelers have time to take away the cheapest tickets, while others provide income for “low-costs”.
For example. Company Ryanair. The cheapest ticket from Wroclaw to Gdansk on May 14 (today April 22) costs 108 zloty, which is about 24 euros. But this is the basic version with small hand luggage. An option with a large hand baggage will cost almost twice as much. Dimensions of hand luggage are not always checked. I have never been checked. But I saw people was checked and forced to pay extra. A smart person can easily handle a large carry-on baggage, pretending that it is small.
The next day, a ticket from Wroclaw to Gdansk is cheaper by 70 zlotys.
Therefore, if you belong to the type of people who are used to arriving at travel agencies and says “I do not want to decide anything, I want to fly to Turkey for two weeks, please, do everything for me”, then there is very little chance that you will successfully buy the necessary tickets for low the price. There are plenty of pitfalls. Here you need to be flexible, attentive, plan ahead or be ready to fly already and now as soon as these tickets have appeared. The higher your flexibility and attentiveness, the less you need to pay, the less flexibility, the more you have to pay.
To get the cheapest option, you need to constantly monitor airlines’ websites. Sometimes, you have to count on several transfers. Some companies offer to fly cheaper on weekdays, in other companies day of the flight does not affect the price. It is necessary to find out what luggage (in size and weight) can be transported for free, how much will have to pay for exceeding the established standards. Be sure to have the ability to pay online.
Do not think too long. Tickets for low prices disappear quickly. Each traveler hunts for such a ticket. Therefore, if you have seen a cheap ticket to the right direction and date, take without hesitation.
Be prepared for trying by companies to sell any additional services all your time. Immediately in the process of buying a ticket you will have offers to buy something, rent a car, book a hotel, a place in the restaurant. And the check marks can be in the confirmation box. For this you have to follow regularly and always put “NO”. During the flight, virtually all road cabin crew are trying to sell something, from food, to toilet water and jewelry. For food and drink you have to pay several times more than on the ground.
Price change, including additional services.
In addition, you need to pay for almost everything. For luggage (except for hand luggage with limited weight and dimensions - each company has its own conditions), for the possibility of choosing a place near the window or near the emergency exit. But for all this you may not pay. I have repeatedly and without reservation in advance, there were good places near the window.
Fly without luggage. The more things you want to take with you, the more expensive the tickets will be. For example, a ticket may cost 10 euros, and pay extra for luggage 15 euros. But always and everywhere you can take a small backpack for free.
Fines: if you do not pass electronic registration online - you have to pay extra. Did not print a ticket - you have to pay extra. Have decided to buy a luggage space after buying a ticket - you need to pay extra, at the airport - pay extra twice as much.
Airports where the “low-costs” fly are extremely far away from the cities indicated on the ticket. For example, a flight from Wroclaw to Paris (Beauvais Airport, 60 km from Paris) cost me 13 euros, and the bus from the airport to Paris - 16 euros. In Barcelona, the airport of Gerona is some 100 kilometers, in Oslo, the Moss airport is 60 kilometers, in Warsaw, Modlin - 40 kilometers. There are many such airports. So some details must be thought out in advance.
Comfort is minimum. Cheap airlines are cheap, because they are not sprayed on chic. Here are narrow passages, a lot of people in plane. One airline even tried to enter a fee for using the toilet. True, it changed his mind. So do not expect anything special. However, such a way of traveling will be acceptable to those who travel a lot and without anything.
You must always make an online flight registration. For example, you bought a ticket a month before departure, you received confirmation by mail, but the possibility of a free check-in and a chance to print a ticket will be closer to departure. For example, on WIzzair’s flight, you can print a ticket at the earliest two days before departure. On Ryanair it is the same. There are applications on the phone, so if you sort it out, you may not print a ticket, but just check-in and download a ticket to your phone and go to the airport without paying extra for it.
Travel correctly and with pleasure!