You can actually book flights in person if you wish
but do not expect and comfortable surroundings. Bucket
shop flight tickets are cheaper because they are
specialists in what they do and they can save a lot of
money on their overheads by working from small
back-street office space and in indoor market places so
they can pass these savings onto you. The World's
biggest cities are littered with flight ticket bucket
shops especially in New York, London, Amsterdam, Sydney,
Paris, Bangkok and Auckland to name a few.
If you are having problems locating the bucket shops
just telephone the backpacking hostels who will gladly
give you some telephone numbers or web sites to check
out. It's amazing how much money you can save just by
using bucket shops to buy your flight tickets. They are
all part of a bigger network so they have some serious
buying power in the flight ticket sector. They have the
ability to move a lot of flights in a short period of
time. This is why many of the charter flights will
gladly pass on cheaper tickets to these agencies because
they know they can sell them with minimum fuss.
If you are flying to a particular continent such as
Asia then a good place to buy bucket shop flight tickets
would be in the very same community such as China Town
in your City. Like I said before you may not be able to
find then in the shops in the area, they would be
operating from rented office space so the best place to
find them would be in any local newspaper circulated by
the Chinese community or you can find them online or in
the Yellow Pages telephone directory. Bucket shop flight
tickets can be purchased at substantial discounts
because they are a niche flight specialist in this area.
