Wolfgang Jaegel asked:


A special administrative region of China, Hong Kong has been long regarded as the gateway to the nation. Hong Kong is a sprawling cityscape providing a feast of attractions to visitors touring the city in the form of a variety of museums, theme parks, and natural attractions, among many others.

However, its magnificent attractions are the not only thing that draw people from across the world here. The city also provides excellent options for business and educational activities. Many travelers including Americans and Europeans can savor the first taste of Asia by landing at the international airport in Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong.

Traveling to Hong Kong has never been so easier, with a plethora of budget airlines in the scenario. Earlier, air travel was just confined to upper class people including top class executives as well as business magnets. But, with the birth of the budget airlines, anyone could dream of a comfortable air journey. In other words, budget airlines have now become a convenient alternative over shaky buses, inept trains, and traffic-jammed highways.

Budget airlines, otherwise known as no frills airlines, low cost carriers, or low cost airlines, are airlines or flight carriers providing flight services for exceptionally low rates. Sometimes you can travel with a budget airline for more than 50% discount.

The concept of no-frills airlines originally originated during the beginning of 1990s in the US, which later spread to Europe and gradually to Asian destinations. Now the budget airlines are popular throughout the world, and many of the leading as well as reputable airlines in the industry render low cost airline services and that too without sacrificing the quality of the services.

In budget airlines, the pricing of air fares vary depending upon the duration of time between booking and departure. Mostly, the earlier you make bookings for airfare, much cheaper would be the airfare. Likewise, in order to fill the unsold seat in the plane, some airlines would slash the price prior to a few days before its departure.

A specialty of most of the budget airlines is that they cater to almost all types of travelers. For instance, some airlines operate budget flights according to the convenience of the business travelers. There are certain airlines providing incredible deals on air fares for students as well as leisurely travelers. In most cases, budget airline fares are flexible, al though, in some instances, these airlines may charge a nominal fee to make changes in flight reservations.

A number of airlines are in the industry to render you the best in budget travel. With these excellent airlines providing bespoke services. A budget airline provides almost the same superb services that a standard airline offers, such as excellent dining options, superb entertainment facilities, and comfortable as well as soft cabins. Additionally, some of the budget airlines render special services for passengers such as elderly travelers, children traveling alone or not accompanied by their parents, pregnant as well as passengers flying with infants, and passengers who have visual, speech, or hearing imparity.

With the introduction of the internet, it has become quite easy to find a budget airline. Many of the airlines have their own websites with facilities for online ticket booking. This in turn is very convenient. It is not only beneficial for hassle-free bookings but also enable you to know whether they provide any kind of discount or deals for traveling within a stipulated period or during a particular season such as Christmas or New Year.

All you have to do is to just log into their website and inform them regarding the destination you are going to travel and date of departure. All of the rest they will take care. In addition, airfare bookings online is economical, as it enables you to save pennies on issuing tickets. The airlines, in most cases, sent confirmation through a simple document containing flight details as well as booking reference. When you make payments and bookings online, it allows you to easily take a print out of this document as soon as the booking process is completed. In short, with just a click of a mouse you can make bookings for a comfortable air journey.



Virgil

Laura R asked:


I am ging to be flying from the Bingahmton, NY area to Chicago O’Hare airport. When is the best time to book and time of month to book to get the best fares? What airline is the most comfortable, with the most room?

Bolaven

Muna wa Wanjiru asked:


The United States boasts a big number of airlines that double as domestic and international airlines. These US airlines boast big fleets or aircraft from those that sit more than two hundred passengers to little aircraft that sit less than twenty people. These airlines offer flights between some of the busiest airports in the world and some of the most remote places, or some of the smallest airports in the United States.

These airlines also range from discount airlines to private charter companies that cater to the rich and famous. Some of these airlines are TWA, Southwest, Northwest, Delta, Alaska airlines just to mention a few.

Many of these airlines have partnered with major international carriers to provide cheaper options for travelers, and also more travel destinations for the travelers to choose from.

These airlines have also partnered with hotel chains and car rental companies to provide subsidized travel packages to travelers. These US airlines are also partnering up with credit card companies. So for example if you have a Delta Airlines credit card, you can use it, and every time you use it, you accumulate points that you can redeem for a plane ticket or even for a stay in a hotel.

Many airlines also offer reward schemes commonly known as frequent flier miles. Those people who accumulate thousands of these miles from both domestic and international travel get perks such as priority check in, VIP treatment or even the choice to upgrade from coach to first class. From this you can see that US airlines are encouraging more and more people to fly, with the perks offered and also the reasonable ticket prices that they offer.



Cristobal

judy f asked:


$25 each way, then you click on their website and the fares
are about $299 – where are the $25 fares? I think this was
Spirit Airlines.

Chris

Peter Gitundu asked:


Discount airlines can be described as low cost carriers, low budget carriers that have no frills. These airlines will many a time provide service between cities in the same country or region, or between neighboring countries. The aircraft that are used are smaller than those used for long haul flights. They use for example large jets or the airbus A320. An example of one of these airlines is Frontier Airlines, which flies to domestic destinations in the U.S as well as to some cities in Mexico and Canada.

By no frills, we mean that these airlines, might offer extra services on board at an extra cost. For example, you might pay a little extra to seat in your seat of choice, or you will find that is not an option, because it is open sitting for all passengers. You might have to buy your food, or bring it on board, or pay to rent earphones for the duration of the flight.

You will find that these airlines operate many short haul flights, and so in a day may have up to ten flights between two cities. This makes it easy for you to just drive to the airport, buy a ticket and hop on a flight. For example flights between San Diego and Las Vegas.

Something else to note about discount airlines is that they are popular with business travelers who just want to jump on a flight, with no fuss, get to their destination, get their work done and get back home in the evening.



Celia

Jazmin asked:


I want to fly from Seattle to Delhi either in October or December or January…which month is best and how do I find the cheapest ticket? I’m afraid of Air India – had a BAD experience with them before…so any other ideas? Continental seems pretty good… Thanks!

Kirk

Ravinder asked:


Did you know that the first Indian to have an airplane is the young Maharaja of Patiala, Bhupinder Singh? In fact he is considered by many, in 1910, to be one of the first Asians to fly. Since then the evolution of Airlines have been rapid in India, starting with JRD Tata being awarded the first Indian Pilot license for flying his Gypsy Moth.

 

Aviation in India didn’t take a large part of the travel till around the 1950’s when we had the Indian Government stepping in and publicizing and consolidating many individual players to jet start Indian Aviation. Thus began Indian Airlines and their operations on 1st August 1953.

 

Currently today though the market share is dominated by private players in the market. Private airlines hold 60 percent of the market share. It was aided with allowing private carriers to allow air taxi operations. But what is the real reason behind people preferring this to the Government run operations? In my opinion, I would cite two main factors.

 

The first would be the inventive ways of Airlines competing and offering better fares and privileges to the user, thus allowing for a wider choice and an affordable one. The second would be the defunct operational services of the Government. While they spend a lot of money in acquiring newer airplane jets they haven’t concentrated their efforts on the flying experience. Slack attitudes at expansions and service are primary reasons why the domestic market is weaning from government carriers.

 

People want good, affordable and comfortable travel. And they are ready to pay a price for it. Wouldn’t the largest backed up airlines actually want to leverage that to gain share? All is not lost, I think the new aviation minister is aggressive enough, but there is a long way to go. My quick 3 tips to help them on their way?

 

a) Improve service of ground stuff, the customer is your most important asset.

 

b) Improve your online booking facilities with the faster group of net savvy people, it is important that you should cater to their needs of by passing agents and booking online.

 

c) Fly more often and at cheaper rates through the most important business domestic routes. It helps to help people fly at convenient timings.

 

This really isn’t rocket science to cater to the customer first and make sure that their needs are important. Taking tips from the aggressive domestic players and using their large financial backing should help a lot!

 

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Estelle

nora7142@verizon.net asked:


I plan to fly to Chicago from Tampa on Dec 22,2006 and return on jan. 2, 2007. How far ahead should i buy the ticket I need to go non- stop. I just looked at fares and they are very high at this time. Does a sale start before the holidays. Last time I went I paid 178.00 including the tax round trip ty

Arthur

fly.eastern asked:


Such as: An airfare from Washington, DC to Munich, Germany using services of Virgin Atlantic Airways only.

Georgette

Help asked:


Not too long ago I had a program I installed from Expedia that gave me hourly updates on ticket prices, but it seems that they have removed the program or something because I can’t find it. The program doesn’t have to be specifically from Expedia, just any sort of fare tracker would be nice.

Colin