The cheaper flights, the smaller a place becomes the world too. And the world is a very small place today.

You may as guests enjoy the fact that plane tickets just become cheaper and cheaper over the last year thanks to falling oil prices, intensified competition and more fuel efficient aircraft.

BUT:

You may still have to pay several thousand kroner more than you should, if you're not aware of how to find the cheap flights online.

This article is not about using search engines and be flexible on your departure day. You know well in advance. But you also know the following tricks?

Fly to and from smaller airports

In many flysøgemaskiner - eg billigeflybilletter.net - allows you to search for flights for a given city. But a city can have many airports. If you would like to fly to London, so the tour can go through both Gatwick, Luton, Stansted Ballenstedt, Heathrow and the small London City Airport. If you accidentally select only Heathrow, you will see illetter that inevitably going to cost more money than the other airports a bit further away.

You must therefore be flexible not only with travel time, but also your preferred airport. If you are not aware, you risk paying dearly for saving half an hour on your total.

VISA at Nykredit

In the US there is almost no end to new credit card that gives you "air miles" from airlines to write you up. In Denmark, NETS monopoly on Dankort. It provides good prices for us, but unfortunately also a lack of competition.

However, you have one chance to get points with SAS, every time you use your VISA card: As with Nykredit.

Here you as a private customer connect your VISA / Dankort up with your frequent flyer number. Each time you use 100 kroner, you get 10 points. If you must travel to and from Barcelona, ​​it's going to cost you 500,000 kroner in revenue on your card, so you hardly comes out swinging wooden leg right away - but remember that every little helps a great river. If nothing else, you have the opportunity to get a little discount next time you shop at Scandinavia's largest airline.

Remember compensation for flight delay

If you are exposed to a flight delay , you are entitled to get compensation. Your compensation can easily surpass what you actually paid for the ticket, as the minimum compensation for a delay of 3 hours is barely 1,900 kroner (!).

This is your rightful compensation for flight delay also a fine way to improve the overall travel budget. Remember that when you're sitting at the airport with a delay of 3 hours or more, to, in or from the EU, and are ripping the head of your airline.