Budget Airlines Promos... have you taken advantage of these?...

Yes I did once. Me and my friend went to our friend's place in Bacolod. I haven't tried buying some more since I am not in Phils currently. That's the only problem there, you have to actually buy it months before the travel.

I have never try budget airline promotion for my long distant or short trip, i will probably try it on my next short distant trip if there is one available here. Unfortunately for us in US, we don't have such type of budget airline promo. like the region where you live, the airlines here don't have such type of sales promotion often. It is always high price regular rate for domestic and international air travelers every year, budget air travel is not some thing that US airlines are fond of doing since they have so many customers waiting in line for their services, it is not necessary for the airlines to roll out such type of sales promotion to generate traffic. There is one or two budget airlines that normally offered a bit lower price air ticket compare to major airlines, but both having safety issues with their planes, they like to cut corner in order to lower their operating costs, to subsidize for lower price tag charged on travelers. I will not recommend anyone of them.

I have not flown anywhere lately, but years ago I did take advantage of several promotions. Once I found bus tickets to an exotic location in a library book. It was a place I had never heard of before and a 3 day's ride. Well, I went there and it was fun and exciting, but I flew home.

I've traveled by air to Hawaii before, it wasn't cheap, they packed us in like nobody's business. I'd like to take a cheap flight somewhere and spend my money on local stuff. Sounds like you got a great deal and that just means you're going to do it again. It also matters where you travel, if its to a boring place then its not worth the savings.

Not yet but thank you for mentioning it. We are planning to visit palawan as God permits and it will be wonderful if there will be promos like that when its time for us to have a trip. Thanks aseretdd

I absolutely love these airline promos or what we call the "seatsale". I've tried availing these twice. One was when we had a family trip to Siargao. It was truly a Summer Vacation to remember. Because we paid less for the tickets, all of us were able to spend Summer together. Imagine each ticket cost only around 800php round trip from Cebu (roughly around 20 usd). Another was when my friends and I went to Boracay and the tickets we were able to buy only costs 775php each (less than 20 usd each) round trip. I always take time to visit the airline's website hoping to catch another promo.

I have not come across any of the promotional offers despite them apparently being so prolific. I would be interested in very cheap flights, but the only ones that I ever seem to find are one direction only, which often means the return flight cost would negate the saving.

I remember taking advantage of budget airlines when my partner and I were travelling to Germany, I couldn't believe the price of the tickets, £24 from London To Germany, we were staying with friends in Berlin so the holiday was extremely cheap. The taxi to get us to the airport cost us more than the £24 air tickets because we had to get to the airport early. When you have cheap flights you don't mind what time of day you travel and it's only a small inconvenience to get up earlier.

In 2008 I found a promotional budget airline deal from Bristol in England to Riga in Latvia. I booked a ticket for me, adult and my disabled son, infant. It cost around one hundred pounds. That airline gave us a miserable amount of luggage allowance. They said one bag weighing less than fifteen kilos. Packing was very challenging indeed. I needed my things and my disabled son's things including his medical gear. It was ever so difficult to pack. I couldn't fit my disabled son's lightweight travel cot in that tiny amount of luggage. I had to pay fifteen pounds more for that piece of infant equipment. We visited Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In Estonia my disabled son's buggy broke. I had a challenging time to reach our accommodation with him, the broken buggy and our luggage. It was hard to find that accommodation. A local lady kindly helped us and found our accommodation for us. I asked a local parent out with her baby where she would go if she needed a new buggy. She told me and off we went to purchase their cheapest buggy. My disabled son was 13 months old on that lovely trip. Now he is in a wheelchair and he is aged 5 years old.

I myself have never taken advantage of such an airline but many of my friends have and I think it is great to be able to save on a flight and just get the basics. I have many miles for the large airlines so I never pay for flights really. Remember the more you save on a flight the more you can budget towards hotel and having fun as your destination.

Yes I did once. Me and my friend went to our friend's place in Bacolod. I haven't tried buying some more since I am not in Phils currently. That's the only problem there, you have to actually buy it months before the travel.

Yes I take advantage of them and fortunately all the tickets that I bought were valid and I still here means nothing bad happened to me. It was exciting to go around the Philippines having these promo tickets. and now internationally. We were able to go to bacolod, davao and kalibo with 222 fare each back and forth. Yepeee such a great adventure for us. I am lucky to have not been one of the passengers who got problems like, long waiting in the airport because of the delay and so on. I am trying to look for cheap fare from time to time specially from Bangkok to Philippines and vice versa, but I guess, Thailand is one of places most Filipinos go nowadays so there is no promo ticket as low as that.