When is the European air ticket cheap and how to buy it?

You must buy air tickets to travel to Europe, but the air tickets from China to Europe are too expensive. How to buy air tickets is cheaper? The following small series will introduce you.

How to choose the bus with special fares is actually poking fun at the low-cost airlines in Europe. The flight lasts for 24 hours, the ticket is fully covered and the price is low. Compared with international buses &; For expensive train tickets, flying is sometimes the most cost-effective choice.

However! It is often seen that tourists who travel around the world encounter low-cost airlines in Europe. Either they have to pay a fine for their luggage or they can't board the plane. Therefore, it is very necessary to popularize the correct way to open this kind of vehicle.

First of all, the five airlines that will debut today will be unveiled neatly:

Ryanair, EasyJet, Fowler Airlines, Weizier Airlines, norwegian air shuttle Company.

The first two basically cover the whole of Europe, including Britain, Ireland, Israel, Turkey and other radiation countries, as well as the outer islands scattered near the Mediterranean. The latter three companies have taken the mountain as the king respectively, and expanded their territory around their own countries, providing more routes to supplement southern Europe+eastern Europe+northern Europe.

With so many airlines, unlike where China goes, third-party ticketing apps such as Ctrip and Flying Pig can compare prices in one stop. How to choose air tickets at ordinary times? Sacrifice the most solid background of this article-Sky Patrol app

Every time I find a ticket, the price is incredibly low.

The use method is very simple, just like buying a ticket at ordinary times. Enter the departure place, destination and departure time, and the air tickets sorted by price will be displayed automatically. (Conveniently, you don't need to go to the city in detail, just enter the country name. )

The best thing about Sky Patrol is that it got the lowest air ticket in the world through big data search. Unless individual websites manually bug, the sky tour price must be the lowest.

It can be seen that the fares offered by different agents vary greatly, and the air tickets from Slovakia to Israel are undoubtedly WizzAir in Eastern Europe, occupying an absolute advantage.

Attention! Sky Tour does not have a direct ticket entrance, but directly jumps to Ctrip, official website and other platforms to purchase tickets directly. The real price is transparent and there is no advertising fee. So if you want to place an order without stepping on the thunder, you have to continue reading.

If the time range is random, we can find out the air ticket histogram in a natural month and determine the minimum departure date.

Another thing that attracts me most about the sky trip is the special airfare from the starting point to any destination.

It is very suitable for people who have a holiday and wander around at will.

There is always a plane ticket for you.

Lightning protection for low-cost airlines boarding: are you excited to see so many exciting ticket prices? Don't worry, don't worry, low-priced water is deep, so be careful.

Confirm at least three key points before buying a plane ticket: airport-urban bus, check-in, boarding pass and baggage allowance.

Next, take Ryan as an example to introduce low-cost minefields (because Ryan has the most mines)

Ryanair lightning protection zone Keywords: cheapest and most routes

Ryanair from Ireland is probably the airline that all European backpackers love and hate. It has absolute advantages, rich routes and flights, and low prices. Off-peak international flights often cost 65,438+00 euros to fly to all parts of Europe. A little more domineering, it can be said that as long as Ryan has a route, it is the lowest price in the whole network.

The main reasons for the low price are: hiring African-American and Asian cheap labor, renting remote airports and red-eye night flights, effectively reducing operating costs.

What follows is the inconvenience of traveling.

How far is the airport? The airport bus is more expensive than the air ticket.

Many big cities in Europe have two or even three airports. If you are not familiar with the situation, you will face the intercity train.

5-hour drive = 1 hour airport bus+1 hour boarding+1.5 hour flight+1 hour airport bus. The plane completely lost its most important "time saving" advantage and had to make a complicated transfer. At this time, I'd rather choose the international train that goes straight to the city. Unfortunately, sometimes the train price is three or four times that of the air ticket, so in order to save money, we can only fly. This is not pretending to be B, it is a fact (who let Europe not have the high-speed rail extending in all directions like China).

Especially low-cost airlines, love night flights, often land in the middle of the night and take off in the early morning. How to use public transport to get to and from the city must be checked in advance so as not to miss the early/last bus.

take for example

A taxi ticket from Oslo cheap airport in Norway to downtown-equivalent to RMB 1000.

Focus on checking airport traffic and avoid sleeping at the airport.

Check in in advance, download the airline App scan code to board the plane, or print the ticket yourself.

This is probably what I don't like about Ryan. Online check-in time is 4 days to 2 hours before departure. Many China tourists can't check in online by booking their email address and e-ticket number after purchasing tickets on domestic third-party ticketing websites, and they have to pay a high counter check-in fee (55 euros) when they arrive at the airport. Everyone is used to scanning their ID cards to get boarding passes at the airport, completely unaware of the need to check in online in advance, so people who come to Europe for the first time often have to pay Ryan this tuition.

Besides, Ryan also asks you to print your boarding pass yourself, otherwise? Print 20 euros at the counter. That's right. Low-cost airlines even have to save these banknotes.

According to the latest regulations, Ryan App scan code boarding is basically possible in Europe, and neighboring countries such as Morocco still need to print boarding passes.

Key low-cost air tickets are recommended to be purchased directly in official website to facilitate self-service online check-in. China's agent apps are all carefully selected. Every time you check in, you need to contact customer service by overseas phone. When I met the customer service who didn't understand the process, a few phone calls and emails flew away.

Checked baggage quantity

Low-cost airlines usually don't provide free freight, and Ryan, who spends a lot of money, will definitely not let you take advantage. Carry-on luggage is limited to 20-inch boarding box+carry-on bag (note: the size of boarding luggage is not limited to weight). What if I need to check more luggage? Check-in online to buy checked baggage tickets, each 25 euros, with a weight limit of 20 kilograms. Overweight 1kg, on-site fine at the time of consignment 10 Euro. If you forget to buy the baggage claim tag, you have to go to the scene to buy the baggage claim tag, each of which is 40 euros.

The key point is that the luggage is small, not checked, or when you buy a ticket, you can buy a baggage ticket that is more expensive than the air ticket.

So knock on the abacus and see, if you don't plan to take the box to the airport, you will face

55 euros on-site check-in fee +20 euros boarding pass printing fee +40 euros plus checked baggage penalty.

Ok, let Ryan carry all the pots and praise my favorite low-cost airline, Yi Jie.

Yi Jie Keywords: the ticket purchasing page is smooth, and there is no need to print the boarding pass when scanning the code on the mobile phone.

I like Yi Jie mainly because its online booking customer experience is closest to China.

Accustomed to the convenient operation of ordering food with one click in major domestic apps, various bugs in foreign websites' apps will make people collapse.

"I'm not going, not yet."

And Yi Jie is the best I have ever used!

In the past, I jumped directly to Yi Jie's mobile web version through Sky Tour app, and I didn't get a ticket without Caton. At that time, I was lying in bed with a puzzled face and felt "holding the grass, that's what I want to say, leave". To know how difficult it is to open a website for the first time, register an account, enter information, bind a bank card, and operate the simple page introduction function at three key points, which is compatible in Europe where the Internet is developing slowly!

About app

The simplicity of the page and the comfort of the font layout are not worth boasting about for the time being. The experience of "online check-in-scan code boarding" is very cool. It not only saves the time of printing boarding passes at the counter or independently, but also saves energy. In a word: intelligence. Imagine scanning the code on your mobile phone when boarding the plane, which is as fast and convenient as taking the subway. Because it reduces the difficulty of traveling, it also reduces the anxiety about the unknown journey.

At the same time, flights in Yi Jie are better than those in Ryan, and there are fewer cheap airports, so the landing is close to the urban area. Unlike Ryan, there are so many flights taking off in the middle of the night that people sleep at the airport, which is a relatively more comfortable travel option.

Oh, yes, Yi Jie also has a free refund/name change service within 24 hours after booking. Sometimes I hesitate to buy in buy buy because I can return it for free, and then I haven't returned it.

Note that Yi Jie also needs to buy checked baggage. The boarding baggage rule is that there is only one large piece of luggage. If you have a carry-on bag, you must stuff it into a box or backpack. Only Yi Jie members can carry an extra small carry-on bag.

Fuling Airlines keywords: loose baggage allowance.

Fulin is very suitable for the leisure style in Spain, and the happiest thing is that the baggage inspection is not strict.

Luggage+small backpack+satchel can also board the plane smoothly. But after all, it is a low-cost airline, so you need to check online in advance. Self-printing air tickets.

WizzAir Keywords: screening of unpopular destinations

Airlines with Soviet legacy always have a rigidity and awkwardness from Siberia. The page design of the app is slightly rough. Worst of all, visa payment requires mobile phone to receive SMS verification code. It's embarrassing for an airline to have such a low security level. Online check-in is also necessary. The advantage is that you don't need to print the ticket, and the mobile app scans the code to board the plane.

Small countries like Slovenia also have flights, and I have experienced 50 euros round trip between Ljubljana and Brussels. This is also the only time in my 50 flights to check the size of my suitcase. . .

The 20-inch boarding box bought in China has a zipper interlayer, which can make more space after loosening, and the thickness is 5 cm, which is convenient for putting more luggage. Well, it's about this.

This thickness makes the size of the standard boarding box bigger, and it is impossible to check the luggage rack according to the size stipulated by the airline, but the airline has never dug into this detail, so I didn't care. At that time, the suitcase was still half saturated. I really didn't mean to take advantage. After that, I pulled up the spring zipper and boarded the plane smoothly. I have to say, there used to be an examination room where I was forced to show my paper towel to check whether there was a cheat sheet of honey juice.

Norwegian air shuttle shuttle bus keywords: two pieces of luggage are checked for free.

Norwegian air shuttle Aerospace Company, which won the honorary title of the best low-cost airline in the world for five years in a row, can be said to be the least like a low-cost airline. Northern Europe suddenly raised the upper limit of low-cost airlines-free check-in of 2*20kg luggage+printing boarding pass at check-in counter+on-board wifi supply. It's no different from ordinary airlines except that it doesn't provide free meals. Seat comfort has also been greatly improved, of course, the price is also natural, ahem, a rising tide lifts all boats.

Air tickets to Nordic countries, especially Iceland and Norway, still occupy the advantage of base camp and have a wide range of choices.

The rudder of norwegian air shuttle's shuttle in southern Europe is Barcelona, so if you want to travel from southern Europe to northern Europe, you can specifically search whether there is a special ticket for norwegian air shuttle to shuttle from Barcelona to northern Europe, and there will always be surprises.

How to search for special fares? These five airlines have their own advantages and disadvantages. I believe most people, like me, are still price-oriented. So at the end of this article, share two special fares carefully searched:

1. Go to a nearby destination/starting point.

For example, the flight to Chengdu is expensive (if you want to eat hot pot, just search for the plane ticket to Chengdu and swallow your saliva), then search for the flight to Chongqing, sometimes the price will be half less, and the high-speed train from Chongqing to Chengdu is very convenient and decisive to fly to Chongqing. The spread of international flights is even greater, and Shanghai flies to Melbourne.

1When 500 yuan is on a one-way trip, Hangzhou departs more than 900 times.

2. Destination/departure point reversal

What if you have a clear destination, but you don't know where to fly more cost-effectively?

Like flying from Europe to Brazil.

Search for air tickets from Brazil to any place, and you will see that the price of flying to Portugal is the lowest in Europe. Similarly, the price of flying from Portugal to Brazil will be relatively cost-effective, because the round-trip fare of long-distance flights is not much different.

Another epiphany is that Brazil was once a colony of Portugal, and there are many kinds of exchanges between the two countries, so it is normal that the price is low. Similarly, the frequency and price of Spanish flights to other colonial countries in Latin America are more satisfactory.