Tell the truth: how many times have you imagined flying from Italy to the United States for a few tens of euros while also saving 70% of the real price? If you have timing, flexibility in departure dates and a credit card on your desk it may not be so impossible.
All you have to do, if you have some free time to spend on the internet, is go hunting for “error to make” of the airlines. As Il Corriere writes today, these are errors by air carriers who sell tickets online at significantly lower prices than the average. These are bugs within the airline sites, real oversights when entering the fare into the computer system. In fact, a plane ticket is made up of various items such as the basic fare, taxes and the fuel surcharge. Forgetting even just one of these three items, in particular the base rate or the fuel surcharge, can allow consumers to save significant amounts.
But there is not only this type of error to make. Other types of airline mistakes that save consumers hundreds of euros are the wrong conversion of two coins or the insertion of promotional codes. This last type of "error making" has penalized strongly Alitalia which a couple of years ago had put up for sale some tickets to Beijing departing from Venice with a promotional code. Return tickets to Prague had been sold out 95 to EUR against an average price of 700. Error fare usually occurs on flights from Europe to Asia and from Europe to the United States and vice versa.
There are also websites that specialize in reporting airline errors such as, for example, Flynous and Boarding Area. The advice is to follow their social accounts to be facilitated in identifying the wrong rates.
But the story of wrong fares is not limited only to intercontinental flights but also in Europe even if today, to tell the truth, the opportunities have diminished. Especially in the past it was not uncommon to find flights at bargain prices on the sites of low cost airlines. The writer has had the good fortune to fly with Ryanair from Rome to Brindisi for just €6,60, but there are those who have done even better: Milan-Orio al Serio – Valencia flight for one cent!
The tactic was and is known to web explorers: look for offers from the carrier four to six weeks before the date set for the possible journey but avoiding doing many searches on the same route because it often happens to see the price rise within a few hours.
Both in the event of an "error to make" and in identifying a particularly advantageous fare offered by the airline itself, there is only one thing to do: book now. Waiting just a few hours to make a purchase could be detrimental to losing an important opportunity. In short, never as in these circumstances is the saying "Carpe diem" valid.
