Are you doing these tricks to find cheaper flights?
ByWSOCTV.com News Staff and Clark Howard
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Are you doing these tricks to find cheaper flights?
ByWSOCTV.com News Staff and Clark Howard
CHARLOTTE — Whether you’re looking to travel this summer or down the road, you always want a deal -- consumer advisor Clark Howard is sharing his ways to find cheaper flights.
Howard’s number one rule with travel is to find a deal and then figure out why you want to go there, not the other way around.
“I know that sounds silly, but it means I get to see the whole world, but much cheaper than you usually would,” Howard advises.
How can you do that? First, go to Kayak.com/explore and put in your departure point, then you can see the cheapest fares available all over the world.
But if you’re like most people, you already know where you’re going to go. In that case, Google.com/flights is the best place to search by date. You can pull up a calendar and see how cheap or expensive a fare is on different travel dates. If you use the fare calendar to set your dates, it can be a be a gamechanger -- we found $89 fares from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles even in July.
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Airport costs across the United States These are the most expensive airports to the least expensive, according to average airfare data from FinanceBuzz.com.
Airport costs across the United States 45. Washington-Dulles
Airport costs across the United States 44. San Francisco
Airport costs across the United States 43. Salt Lake City
Airport costs across the United States 42. Charlotte
Airport costs across the United States 41. Detroit
Airport costs across the United States 40. Dallas-Fort Worth
Airport costs across the United States 39. New York City-JFK
Airport costs across the United States 38. Minneapolis-Saint Paul
Airport costs across the United States 37. Houston
Airport costs across the United States 36. Newark
Airport costs across the United States 35. Portland
Airport costs across the United States 34. Los Angeles
Airport costs across the United States 33. Philadelphia
Airport costs across the United States 32. Atlanta
Airport costs across the United States 31. Kansas City
Airport costs across the United States 30. Orange County-John Wayne Airport
Airport costs across the United States 29. St. Louis
Airport costs across the United States 28. Seattle
Airport costs across the United States 27. Indianapolis
Airport costs across the United States 26. Sacramento
Airport costs across the United States 25. Washington D.C.-Ronald Reagan
Airport costs across the United States 24. Boston
Airport costs across the United States 23. Chicago-O'Hare
Airport costs across the United States 22. San Antonio
Airport costs across the United States 21. San Diego
Airport costs across the United States 20. Pittsburgh
Airport costs across the United States 19. Phoenix
Airport costs across the United States 18. Austin
Airport costs across the United States 17. Raleigh
Airport costs across the United States 16. Baltimore
Airport costs across the United States 15. Honolulu
Airport costs across the United States 14. Nashville
Airport costs across the United States 13. Denver
Airport costs across the United States 12. Cleveland
Airport costs across the United States 11. Miami
Airport costs across the United States 10. Dallas-Love Field
Airport costs across the United States 9. San Jose
Airport costs across the United States 8. Tampa
Airport costs across the United States 7. New York-LaGuardia
Airport costs across the United States 6. New Orleans
Airport costs across the United States 5. Chicago-Midway
Airport costs across the United States 4. Oakland
Airport costs across the United States 3. Las Vegas
Airport costs across the United States 2. Fort Lauderdale
Airport costs across the United States 1. Orlando
Some travelers note the time of year for travel deals.
“We’re not going to go to a Caribbean country in the dead of summer when it’s the same weather and better pricing in the beginning of spring,” said Jun Broderick.
Your starting destination can be key, too. Channel 9 already pointed out the difference between flying out of Charlotte versus surrounding airports, but Howard found that can especially apply if you’re looking to go out of the country.
Flying out of New York, Chicago or Boston will save you big money, most of the time. Flights from Charlotte to London in July were about $1,000 round-trip, but flights from New York to London were about half the price. So book a cheap flight to New York first, and then fly out to Europe.
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