This entry I will share with you the experience of hunting cheap air fares in Vietnam. The main content of the article includes: What is cheap air fare? And are there any ways to hunt for cheap air fares?

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What exactly is cheap airfare?
Cheap airline tickets are tickets that help you save money - time - and effort compared to other mode of transports such as trains, buses…Or sometimes, a cheap airfare is only the cheapest fare of the year, the cheapest of the month, or the day you buy - it is cheaper than other fares, it is called cheap airfare.
Air tickets are sometimes even cheaper than bus tickets.

Example 1: From Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City on a bus of Mai Linh, or Hoang Long with a fare of 750.000 – 830.000 VND / person, you have to take 38-45 hours for the journey, while a flight fare 799. 000 VND (including tax) would be considered cheap. Because flying only takes about 1 hour in the sky, 2 hours for procedures, 30 minutes to the airport and 30 minutes to move from the airport to the place you need.
You save first time, then health and money (the result of saving time and health)

Example 2: From Ho Chi Minh City, you go to Phu Quoc by road, take a bus to Ha Tien (or Rach Gia) cost 175. 000 VND, spend 8 hours on the bus, then continue with high speed boat for 200.000 VND / person (45 minutes to 1 hour) to travel from Ha Tien to Phu Quoc.
Instead, I find a 99.000 VND ticket (ideally you hunt for 90.000 VND ticket, very easy, you can read my article to know how to hunt) to fly from Ho Chi Minh City to Phu Quoc (full tax about 600.000 VND) - you only need to fly in 45 minutes, check in 2h, airport transfer 30 minutes, 30 minutes from the airport to the hotel.

Now you clearly see how much you have saved, right? Even with fares 190.000 VND, 299.000 VND…you are still saving more than traveling by road, saving more precious things than money: time and health.

Example 3: A friend on Facebook wants to fly Hanoi - Phu Quoc and says the 499.000 VND fare (full tax) is not cheap.

I will analyze for you to understand the issue, you fly a distance of 2200km, only takes about 2 hours on the plane, 2 hours to check in, 1 hour to go from home to the airport and from the airport to the hotel. With 499.000, 640.000 or over 1.000.000 VND…still cheap.

Instead of taking the Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh city bus (costing you 800.000 – 900.000 VND excluding food along the way along, sitting on the car for more than 1 tiring day), then continue taking the bus to Ha Tien (300 km more), done get off and move to the ferry station…

So tired, so much time, even much more expensive. Now you have understood what is cheap air fares?

You may say: my budget is not enough, I am a student, backpacker… Then you have to change your destination, or you combine in another trip, for example Hanoi - Ho Chi Minh city - Phu Quoc.

But if you still want to fly cheaply, then you can try one of the 5 tips to hunt cheap airfares below!

5 ways to hunt for cheap air fares
There are 5 ways you can buy a cheap air fares easily
1 / Keep an eye on promotion programs (not easy)
This is not easy - I have never hunted myself even though I have tried. After spending 2 lengthy days to hunt for the promotion of Vietjet, I realized that not everyone can hunt, not all of the airlines’s promotional programs are able to hunt.

Several reasons:
- The flight you want to fly is not available in programs
- The chance to see the promoted airfare is random on each computer - that is, it depends on your luck and you are on the bad side.

For example, Vietjet launches 100,000 tickets for 0 VND - firstly, booking agents with a daily team that only eat and book tickets will hunt a large amount for their guests in advance, the rest for people who book themselves, bad luck will appear in front of you. There are people - like me, sitting there looking for cheap tickets and can't find it.
- Must have a visa car for online payment: my sister searched for Hanoi – Ho Chi Minh city airfares and see 0 VND fare, but without a visa card, how can you book, I cannot lend my card because Visa is a card that pays internationally, as long as you have the code and password on the card you can pay online anywhere - the card needs to be secure so it can't be arbitrarily lent, so she finds the ticket but unable to book.

2 / Buy tickets on low travel season
This is the easiest way, not have to watch, the ticket must obviously be cheap because in that season few people go.

For example, you go to Da Nang in June, July August and airfares are always more expensive than in September – March, why? Because in students are off from shool, it is the peak tourist season. You just avoid that time there will be cheap airfares.

Of course, not everyone is as comfortable with the time as I am, but if you have a one-year travel plan, instead of going in summer, you should consider switching to autumn, winter, and spring, you will definitely save you money for the trip and you will have opportunity to go more.

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3 / Buy tickets in advance for a long time from 3-6 months
There are always cheap tickets for those who plan to go out 3-6 months in advance. Right now you search tickets for 6 months after going to Sai Gon, Hanoi, Phu Quoc, Da Lat, Thailand, Cambodia… there will be cheap fares.

The mechanism of selling air ticket is like this: for example, if there are 100 seats sold, then the first 20 seats are always purchased at the lowest price, 20 next seats automatically increase, 20 seats increase further, up to 20 seats In the end, buying the last seats will be 2-3 times more expensive than early buyers - same flight, same class.

This is the rule of the aviation industry, I've heard my friend explain but now I forget why. Just wrap it up: the sooner you you buy the more benefit (for you and the airline) it has.

4 / Flying on the day nobody flies.
The whole country goes on holiday on National day September 2, or labour day May 1, all hotels, restaurants and other services on that day will be expensive, or even full. If you go just after this time you will never worry about full rooms, crowded streets…

It is the same with buying air tickets. Choose the day no one flies, you will have a cheap fare. Flying on Fridays or Saturdays, airfares are more expensive than on Mondays and Tuesdays. Surely you will buy cheaper price than usual.

* Of course, this is only for people who are comfortable with their time. If you don’t have time how can you buy a cheap airfare this way?

5 / Flying at times nobody flights
After choosing to buy cheap airfares on the days few people fly, you continue to buy cheap tickets by the time.

Just keep in mind, the early morning and late night flights are always the cheapest fare of the day. You have to get up early, or stay up late, it takes more effort than people. Okay, because I want to save, so I have to be less comfortable (compared to others).

But it is not cheaper than it seems, just think you will be tired, the public transport stops (the bus) and you have to take a taxi or motorbike taxi to go home and it cost more money, that much money can sometimes be compensate the fares. So you need to consider carefully before buying cheap air tickets.

In short, Everything is as simple as that. If you do not want to wait for a promotion, you only need:
(2) Buy tickets in low season
(3) Buy tickets 3-6 months in advance
(4) Buy tickets on the day that few people fly
(5) Fly at a time when few people fly

Just like that, you no longer have to sit looking for promotions as I had to sit down 2 hours in the afternoon without having lunch 14 o'clock, even worse my friends thought that I was an expert in booking promotional air tickets and asked me to book for them…in general, it is very tiring =))

Conclusion
My long post ends here. Hopefully the experiences of booking cheap airfare that I shared above can help you better understand, and know how to hunt cheap flights for your trip.
In fact, the hunt for cheap airline tickets is nothing sublime. Anyone can do it, only everyone is lazy so no one will do it - right? Did I tell the truth!.

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