Flight ticket bucket shops may not be obvious to us when walking down
a back street in a foreign country and we may not see
them because they are hidden away in multi-story
buildings in places where we may not feel safe to
wonder. But the fact is that they do exist and they can
save you a lot of money on your flight tickets.Some of the larger online
cheap travel specialists may be classed as flight ticket
bucket shops such as Airbrokers.com,
Cheaptickets.com and lowestfair.com because they
have the heavy presence in the flight industry
where they can do deals with airlines. These
deals would be out of reach of most of the other
online travel agents and many of the other
smaller flight specialists
Some of the high street
bucket shops are fairly difficult to find on foot so you
may have to find the Yellow Pages and do a search. In
there you will not doubt see niche ethnic travel agents
who specialize in a particular Country or Continent. As
an example I was looking for flights recently to Hong
Kong and other South East Asia countries. In the Yellow
Pages I saw a flight Company that specialized in this
region and was located in China Town. The Chinese
community is a great place to find cheap flights to
South East Asia so I checked out the flight ticket
bucket shops.
The same could be said
for other regions such as India where there will
probably be flight specialists in the larger cities in
these communities who can provide cheap travel to India,
Pakistan etc. When are travelling
abroad you will see lots of discounted travel agents in
the backpacker areas. These little Cheap Flight Bucket
Shops maybe only a desk in a doorway so you need to be
careful when handing over your money. It is always
better to ask other travellers first for
recommendations. They may ask for the complete cost of
the flight as a deposit though you can often negotiate
down to 20%.
Some of the best places
for cheap flights are Thailand (Khao San Rd), Penang,
Kuala Lumpur, Amsterdam, Delhi, Bombay and Athens. There
are many others worth looking at such as Sydney and
Cairo but in my experience Thailand, Amsterdam and
Penang must be rated as the best locations for cheap
flight ticket bucket shops.
