How do hidden city or long-haul flights finding with online travel booking websites make it easier?
Do you have another device if yes good, use it, if not then fine, use what you have.
Pick the Web Browser
Use Google Chrome browser or download it. Can download and use another private browser like DuckduckGo.
Step 1-
Open the browser to clear all of your browsing data. Before clearing check if you clear all your browser history, you may not lose any information that is important, so aware of that too. When checked now Clear all history, cookies, etc.
How? Hope you know the way, still for those who don't know,
( A demo from Google chrome browser )
Go to the "history" option of your browser.
Go to the " advance " section between the Basic and Advance option.
Select "All time" from the drop-down option.
Check all options browsing history, cookies, and site data, etc.
Now click on "Clear Data".
All the data are now cleared.
Step 2-
Turn on "Incognito mode".
How?
Tap on the browser windows.
Click on three dots.
Select " New Incognito mode " which may appear on the second option.
(*Use the "desktop view" mode option and turn the window to look like a desktop view. Sometimes this is important.
How?
Visit a website, when the website loading is completed.
Go to three dots on the browser.
Scroll down and select "desktop view" mode.
The page will load automatically with desktop view mode).
Step 4-
Search Flight
From here the real part begins of searching.
There are two simple ways of doing this. One is by visiting any "Online travel booking websites" and the other one is visiting each airline website that offers flights from your place to your desired destination or place you want to travel or visit.
Let's see an example with domestic flights
Vistara airlines,
IndiGo airlines,
GoAir airlines,
SpiceJet airlines,
Air Asia India airlines,
Air India airlines,
Air India Express airlines
All these seven airlines offer Domestic flights in India.
In the United States, there are airlines
Spirit airlines
Southwest airlines
Alaska airlines
American Airlines
Hawaiian airlines
Frontier airlines
Allegiant airlines
JetBlue airlines
Delta airlines
United airlines
Sun Country airlines
they offer domestic flights.
They also offer international flights too, all these India's and USA's airlines. There are also other airlines that travel from other countries to India or the USA as international flights. We'll talk about this after this "Domestic / National flights" example.
Let's see this with
1. India's Airlines.
Multiple airports near you
For instance, you are living in a place, you have an airport on your right side 40kms after, and another airport 33kms on the left of yours. This is situation 1.
In New York City(USA) there are multiple airports available John F. Kennedy International (JFK), LaGuardia Airport (LGA), Newark Liberty International (EWR). A flyer from New York Manhattan can book flights from Newark Liberty International or from John F. Kennedy International.
Try to find which is the next nearest airport to you, if there are any and you find it, this can be a good opportunity. Situation 2.
A passenger who is living near EWR international airport can book a flight ticket from the next nearest airport that is JFK International when she/he finds a flight ticket is cheaper than booking from EWR International. Also one must note that traveling to the next airport by road or a connecting flight from EWR to JFK International to get that flight cost less overall.
When you do not have both situation 1 and situation 2, stay calm and start searching for flights with the airport you have near to you.
This method may don't work always, still let's see and try. So, relax and hope for the good.
Again before starting those visitors who know these methods please don't waste your time here, visit and utilize your methods on flight booking. This is for those flyers who don't know.
At first read and laugh, enjoy.
Let's go,
Flights with Indigo Airlines-
Visit the Indigo airlines official website which is this Indigo Airlines, (if possible open with "desktop view" mode).
Input your pieces of information
- Booking for One-way trip or return trip,
- Your destination (from the place to where you'll travel),
- Travel Date,
- The number of flyers, etc.
Then we hit the "Search Flights" option, this may take some time to get the flight results to present.
When the flight results appear, you may see the different flight departure timings, flight fares. There is something you must watch that is the number of stops and the duration of the flight to your destination.
Some flights may have one or more stops and may have a flight duration of probably more or less than 08hrs to 11hrs.
When you click on the details, you may see that flight will land at one or more airports before reaching your destination. This is usually known as "via flights".
Now just think, if one of those stops where that flight land was your destination, you could get off that plane.
The point is sometimes from place A to place B flight ticket may cost $200 on a specific date and time. On the same day flight from point A to point C that will fly via point B and the flight ticket costs $120.
So, you may buy the flight ticket from point A to point C paying $120 instead of buying a direct flight ticket from point A to point B which will cost you $200 and save $80.
When the flight land and halt at point B, you'll get off from the flight.
This is a way, you'll reach your destination and save money with the help of hidden city flights.
We started this flight searching with Indigo airlines when we don't find have to keep searching for other airlines as we want to save money on last-minute flight booking.
Searching hidden city flights by visiting one after one airline is hard.
See this demonstration added below with pics.
We have started searching for flights on the airlines' official websites.
We set our travel destination from Kolkata to Bengaluru, India on 21May, 2021 one way trip.
Then started searching only by changing the places, available flights from Kolkata to other places.
Later visited SpiceJet airline's website and did the flight search.
See what we find with Indigo airlines' search results direct flight from Kolkata to Bengaluru.
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| IndiGo flights from Kolkata to Bengaluru |
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| IndiGo flights from Kolkata to Chennai |
Flight departure time 10:40 a.m with the duration of 5hrs 30mins flight time from Kolkata to Chennai will cost you less that is Rs.4,686/- and take you to the destination that is sooner.
SpiceJet airlines flight results from Kolkata to Bengaluru.
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| SpiceJet flights from Kolkata to Bengaluru |
SpiceJet airlines search results of flights from Kolkata to Chennai.
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| SpiceJet flights from Kolkata to Chennai |
SpiceJet Airlines flight from Kolkata to Chennai, flight departure time 6:55 a.m with flight duration 16hrs 10mins will cost Rs. 5,002/- to reach Chennai.
Therefore modify the date and do this again with all of the airlines. Still, you may miss some airlines that offer low-fare flight tickets as they are from the other countries we definitely don't know about.
Now completions part-
When you search hidden city flights in this way, searching one after one airline.
1 You have to search all the possible destinations to find out the hidden city flight.
Like in India when you want to travel from Kolkata to Bengaluru one way, you may have to search for flights from Kolkata to Mumbai, then Kolkata to Punjab, next Kolkata to Gujrat, and so on.
During the search, we found the hidden city Bengaluru on the flight from Kolkata to Chennai.
When you have completed with all cities with one airline, now start again with other airlines left like SpiceJet, GoAir, Air Asia India, Air India, Air India Express. Also, keep in mind about the other possible unknown airlines that fly from Kolkata to Bengaluru on the same day you want to travel.
Hope, this is really a big task to do. Travelers may do this by themselves or the same thing in a very easy way with the help of some other professional Websites like Skiplagged.com.
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| Find low price flights with skiplagged.com |
Skiplagged.com does this same work easily and shows all the available airlines at once that will fly to your destination.
In a simple way, skiplagged.com helps the flyers to find hidden city flights and also the other available flights with all details which will fly from yours to the destination of yours, passengers may miss as they don't know as they are flights from other countries.
Disclosure Alert:
Only use this trick when you have no other option, you have to reach somewhere but flight ticket fares are very high.
Don't carry bags as Check-in bags. Only carry bags airlines allow you to carry with you on the cabin (About bags you may see on airline's bags policy or contact the airline's customer service center, and talk about your this idea please ). Check-in bags are stored in the airline's cargo area, so you may get out of the plane but your bag may be stuck and reach somewhere else you may not want.
Rest of the story which you may imagine not good for the flyer. To get your bag back, an airline may ask you for charges as a penalty.
So be careful with this process.
Hope you get everything we have discussed above.
I have tried to give my best and trying consistently to make this even more simple.
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