Tuesday 12 June 2012

How to use Social Media to find the cheap air tickets?


When you want to find cheap air tickets, the most common internet resources which you are most likely to turn to are the search engines, the websites of airlines and travel agencies. However, there is one more category of web-based resources which can also be used for finding domestic or cheap international flights. These are social and professional media resources which permit a greater degree of interaction among the people. Using these resources, you can know from where to get cheap air tickets and how. Some of these avenues that can be used for finding information are:

  1. Seek answers from general public: There are some online resources where you can pose your query to general public. Yahoo Answers is one such platform where queries are put up to the general public. Any person from public can answer your query. The benefit of using these resources is that you get a good deal of information and advice from a number of different people. However, while using this medium, it is important that you keep a check on the credibility of given answers
  2.  Initiate forum discussion: You can also make use of travel related forums for either participating in flights or travel related discussion threads or initiate altogether new ones. You can get information relating to the cheap air tickets for travelling to some particular sectors using these forums. This is particularly helpful when there are a series of questions that you have to ask for finding cheap international flights
  3.  Use social and professional networks: These networks include your friends and contacts and even the friends of your friends. Since they are in your network, these form more credible sources of getting reliable information on air  tickets.
  4.  Read and comment on expert blogs: There are expert bloggers who provide great deal of information on t travel products including destinations, accommodations and even the transportation methods, especially for select places. You can read through their posts and post your comments on them and even put up your queries.
Social media resources are also a good source of getting customer reviews and feedback which can be used to your advantage for better planning of your travel. 

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