| It was my very first time travelling out of the UK | | | | cheapest airfare airlines as connecting flights can save |
| and I wanted to see some of Europe. I think this is | | | | a lot of money she added. |
| important so that I can boast to my children that I | | | | She wanted to know where I wanted to visit in |
| have seen a bit of the world even though it is just | | | | Europe. Well, I had Spain, Greece, France and Italy |
| Europe. Step one; it seemed to me was to get as a | | | | penciled down. Well since I was not looking for cheap |
| cheap flight to Europe. The trouble was however in | | | | flights to Dubai, why not check the foreign websites |
| getting my airfares to come down from the high | | | | of the airlines I wish to use for cheaper fares |
| heavens in terms of price. I struggled to rearrange | | | | particularly as those countries have currencies |
| my budget and accommodate the scary costs of the | | | | weaker than the pound sterling? That way I get to |
| airline tickets and realize my goal of having cheap | | | | compare flight prices. She had provided another |
| holidays. I was really running scared and asking myself | | | | thought that would not occurred to me. She had |
| how on earth I was going to make it out of England | | | | saved loads of money that way. She simply booked |
| and through just two countries with the kind of | | | | her flight on the foreign counterparts of the country |
| prices I was seeing. A friend suggested that I focus | | | | she intended to visit. |
| on getting cheap airline tickets. Really? I wanted to | | | | Okay, I had a year of school to go right? I answered |
| know what part of England I had to stand to get | | | | in the affirmative (as she didn't know, after all we |
| such cheapest flights rain to fall on me. Luckily for | | | | were classmates). Students she informed me, have |
| me, she is the patient type and took my sarcasm in | | | | discounts on airlines and stuff like that. She directed |
| good faith. | | | | me to STA Travels for more inquiries. She had |
| According to her, getting cheap flights is much easier | | | | personally cashed in on this discounts on many |
| than I imagine. Imagine? I didn't even think it possible. | | | | occasions by simply tendering her students ID Card. |
| Okay, where do I start from? I wanted to know. | | | | Imagine that! And mine has been just a piece of |
| She wanted to know if I preferred to travel in | | | | plastic in my pocket all this while. Wow, now I can |
| premium class. Certainly not. In comfort, yes but | | | | compare holidays with my better traveled friends. |
| except the first class tickets are free, cut that out. | | | | Last point she made was to inform me to watch the |
| Okay, I she advised me to explore the option of | | | | time I decide to travel. Since I just wanted to travel |
| travelling via an alternative route. It works this way | | | | and get to know places, it was not important that I |
| she explained. I could just fly into Spain and from | | | | go in the peak period. Why not just compare cheap |
| there to Italy on a low cost airline instead of taking | | | | flights, go in the off-peak period and get the lower |
| an expensive flight direct into Italy. Hmmm...wouldn't | | | | prices? Wow! Did I need any more prompting? |
| have occurred to me in a thousand years. Using | | | | Europe, here I come. |