{"id":935,"date":"2017-04-18T09:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/family-world-travel.com\/english\/?p=935"},"modified":"2018-11-03T07:54:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T07:54:51","slug":"how-to-look-find-and-book-flights-online-to-southeast-asia-but-not-just-research-the-pancake-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/family-world-travel.com\/english\/how-to-look-find-and-book-flights-online-to-southeast-asia-but-not-just-research-the-pancake-way\/","title":{"rendered":"How to look, find, and book flights online- to Southeast Asia but not just- research the pancake way."},"content":{"rendered":"

And also: what is the biggest advantage families have with booking tickets online?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The first step of planning a trip correctly is boking flight tickets. It\u2019s best to buy them well in advance, because usually prices go up the closer to the departure date it gets.<\/p>\n

This is especially true for families, because the more people you are the harder it gets to find tickets \u201clast moment\u201d, because you need more seats on the plane that might already be booked.<\/p>\n

From my experience, the more you wait, the more you pay. To me it happens 100% of the time, I always tend to wait and wait (because surely in a moment the price will drop) and I always end up paying the price for my hesitation. I heard about opposite cases, but it always happens to other people. Never to me.<\/p>\n

So as a family, booking tickets is a complicated process requiring a cunning plan.<\/p>\n

But its actually when you search for flights online that families have a major advantage.<\/p>\n

And on that I want to expand:<\/p>\n

How to book tickets online, as a family, in the best way?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Looking for flight for the family is like making pancakes- the first one is always a throwaway.<\/p>\n

To find the best and cheapest flight you have to do research. You can\u2019t simply buy the first tickets you\u2019re offered. Because you don\u2019t know, are they really the cheapest tickets, or not. And maybe there are shorter or more comfortable filghts?<\/p>\n

The longer the distance the more research becomes important, because the number of routes you can take grows. A flight from London to Paris is pretty straightforward. But from London to the Philippines? There\u2019s a million ways to do that.<\/p>\n

In general, flights, especially the cheaper ones, have a lot of stops all over the place before you reach your destination.<\/p>\n

A word on search engines: the use \u2018cookies\u2019 and they will remember every search you\u2019ve done. So, after a few searches, they\u2019ll start increasing the prices. And so it happens that if you search for a flight today- you\u2019ll get a certain price, and maybe you\u2019ll get it tomorrow or the day after too. But after a few days prices start to rise.<\/p>\n

True. You could go \u2018incognito\u2019, but I\u2019m not convinced that works. And you can delete cookies after every search. But a few more things might get deleted that you don\u2019t want deleted, and you\u2019ll have to log in everywhere again, and its just a huge headache.<\/p>\n

So to search in the best most effective way- use the only advantage you have as a family :-).<\/p>\n

So what do you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

I start searching on my phone. I do it first because it\u2019s the most comfortable ad accessible, and can search from everywhere, whenever I have a moment. That way it\u2019s easy for me to learn the different routes, the prices and costs, where are the shortest layovers, etc\u2026 I do that for a few days, learn the routes well.<\/p>\n

Another reason I start with my phone is because obviously I won\u2019t book through my phone, because it\u2019s really uncomfortable (you need to fill passport numbers, look for seats on the plane, fill in payment details, etc. and it\u2019s really not comfortable to do on your phone).<\/p>\n

After learning the route, I send the kids to look on their phones, focusing on certain airlines and routes. We compare the prices they got to the prices I got, and so we get an idea on whether my phone is still showing accurate results or if I need to stop searching there (because I get more expensive results).<\/p>\n

Using the kids\u2019 phones we narrow our options down and focus only on the best flights for cost, route, and total time (including layovers).<\/p>\n

And only after we\u2019re totally decided on which flight to tale, then we open the laptop.<\/p>\n

Until then- I never, under any circumstances, don\u2019t touch my laptop, because the final booking will be done through that. I want it to be as clean as possible. Like only this moment I decided to fly to India.<\/p>\n

When I open my laptop I already know exactly which flight I\u2019m booking and exactly how much it costs and can do the booking straightaway. I\u2019m confident with this decision, all the considerations have been made and I know I made the best booking.<\/p>\n

And here, the short way to book family flight tickets:<\/strong><\/h5>\n

First step:<\/span> research<\/strong><\/p>\n

choose one phone, download flight searching apps, and start playing.<\/p>\n