discount airline tickets

John asked:


they send me the confirmation in the email and it was just $450, but during the search and the whole process for buy it in their site the total price was more than $720

Airline Ticket Cost: $370.00 (USD) per ticket
Airline Ticket Taxes and Fees: $83.93 (USD) per ticket
Number of Tickets: 1
Airfare Subtotal: $453.93 (USD)
Total Trip Cost: $453.93 (USD)

that’s super cheap for an international flight im happy lol but I dont understand why, and I always buy tickets to the same destination and I never seen any that cheap, by the way just before buy it i registered on the airline iberia site so i can get some miles, since the flight first go to new york wit American airlines and then with Iberia, so in the process of buy the flight I put the number code iberia gave me, so why would they make me a discount when I ddnt have no miles U_U
Is round trip, and yea i’m glad I got it I already said that but i just wonder if there is a reason so maybe i can do it again in the future

JASON

C K asked:


So I’ll be traveling to Europe in May. My question is, when should I buy plane tickets? With the global economy in turmoil, I’m worried that if I buy tickets now, the airline I purchase them from might go bankrupt by May! I’m not sure that I would get such a great discount for buying them so early that it would warrant such a risk. Should I wait until March or April to buy tickets? Thanks!
Last year I flew Aer Lingus (got to Dublin and then flew out of there on a cheap easyJet flight), but I know RyanAir is trying to buy Aer Lingus. I’m also considering Iberia, and looking at other European carriers. I was going to use Zoom Airlines $300 flight to London, but they folded, hence my apprehension. I’m looking for the cheapest airline possible, so not necessarily a major airline.

JOE