12 Things Airlines Don't Want You To Know

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1. Rule 240: This article from Aviation.com explains Rule 240: “that if an airline [can’t] get you to your destination on time, it [is] required to put you on a competitor’s flight if it would get you there faster than your original airline’s next flight.” - Northwest Airlines will put you on another airline, in first class if necessary, if your original flight is delayed 60 minutes or longer. (This rule may no longer exist but airline companies will provide alternatives…read Rule 240 article for further explaination). 

   – but not every airline calls it Rule 240

   For example, if you check on Delta Air Lines' domestic contract of carriage, you'll find something called Rule 240 that promises the airline "will exercise reasonable efforts to carry you and your baggage according to Delta's published schedules and the schedule reflected on your ticket." But if you're flying internationally, Delta has no Rule 240. Instead, the 240 provisions are contained in rules 80, 87 and 95 of its international contract.

2. Get better deals by not buying directly from the airline. This article, suggests contacting a travel and checking the newspaper for savings. Some agents have affiliate agreements with larger travel companies to negotiates lower rates on their behalf, “often, tour operators will advertise ridiculously low fares and package deals in the Sunday travel section.”
3. Fly First class at Coach Price. Coach tickets can be booked under codes like YUPP, QUPP, or Z, which award ticketholders automatic upgrades to first class. Rick Seaney, president of FareCompare, “a lot of times the YUPPs are matching some sort of low-cost carrier in a particular market.” According to the article, in 2006, a “round trip flight from Dallas to St. Louis on American Airlines, the YUPP fare is $278 — that’s nearly $1,500 cheaper than a regular seat in first class and more than a $1,000 less than the most expensive seat in coach.”
4. Find out which days equal the cheapest tickets. Wendy Perrin’s The Perrin Post “You’ll find cheaper fares and greater seat availability if you fly on a Saturday and return on a Tuesday, instead of going from Thursday to Sunday or Friday to Monday.”
5. Fly by less known airlines. You won’t be able to fly direct from some of these airlines, but a good way to travel on a budget.
6. Fly foreign. You may fly cheaper by flying with your destination airline than American.
7. Re-work your travel schedule. Arrange your travel schedule so that you’re always flying into the cheapest cities.
8. Understand refund policies. Simple
9. Buy consolidated. Buy your tickets from a consolidator. A guide found on wikiHow can walk you through step-by-step. HERE
10. Depart from a larger city to avoid bigger prices. Can save you hundreds of dollars verifying ticket prices and weighing out the costs.
11. Save hundreds of dollars on an international flight.
    Find out if it's a code share. When an airline and its foreign partner both sell seats on the same flight (making it a code share), one carrier's fares could be substantially lower, so check prices on both. The same seat on the same New York-Hong Kong flight could cost hundreds of dollars LESS.
12. Update:     Fly courier. This can save you half the cost if not allow you to even fly free!

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