As of: February 7, 2024, 5:09 a.m
By: Luis Teschner
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Travel connoisseurs don't necessarily save on the holiday destination, but rather on the flight ticket.
But where can you really find the best offers?
In the summer to Mallorca.
An awful lot of Germans want that – again in 2024.
Other travel destinations in Europe and the world are also popular.
But there is a problem: flight prices will be significantly more expensive this year.
That's why many people search for cheap flight tickets on various portals.
But should you book them there too?
Not necessarily, as a test by
Stiftung Warentest
showed.
Accordingly, flights on comparison portals such as
opodo.de
cost an average of 33 percent more.
Additional fees are also often required for luggage and seating.
Should you use the comparison portals at all?
And where do you buy the best airline tickets?
Flying far away for little money: possible with a little strategy.
© Rena Föhr/DALL-E (AI generated)
Flight tickets from comparison portals have numerous disadvantages
There are two categories of comparison portals: online travel agencies and meta search engines.
Flight tickets are sold directly
on online travel agencies such as
opodo.de
or
fluege.de .
Here you should keep an eye on hidden costs and expensive memberships.
According to
the consumer advice center
, if there are problems you are pushed back and forth between the travel agency's customer service and the airline.
In addition, many customers would end up waiting several weeks for refunds.
A Lufthansa direct flight to Mallorca for May 2024 (as of January 2024) costs 355.98 euros on opodo.de without Prime membership.
Neither seat nor luggage is included.
Which comparison portals are best to use?
Of course, the individual comparison portals differ.
That's why
Deutschlandtest
2023 tested 40 search engines and 34 online travel agencies.
The best three search engines are Swoodoo, Kayak and Momondo.
The best 3 online travel agencies are fluege.de, flug.check24.de and airline-direct.de.
Meta search engines such as
skyscanner.de
or
swoodoo.com
, on the other hand, offer a different service.
They search the internet for the cheapest flights and then direct customers there.
They don't even sell tickets themselves.
That's why it's definitely worth using flight search engines to compare prices.
Via
swoodoo.com
you end up on the Lufthansa homepage for the same dates in May 2024.
Here you currently only pay 261 euros for the same services: no hand luggage, no seat reservation.
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Travelers book the cheapest and best tickets directly with the airline
Experts recommend: You don't buy the best tickets from online travel agencies, but rather directly from the airlines.
And because many airlines fly to Mallorca, it is worth searching in advance using a meta search engine.
There you can find the best connection, which you can then book directly with the airline.
In the event of problems, there are only two parties involved: the travelers themselves and the relevant airline.
This way, any complications can be resolved more quickly.
And there is more money left over, which you can then spend in Mallorca or at your personal favorite place on beautiful hotels and delicious cocktails.
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Of course, there are more things you should pay attention to in order to get cheap flight tickets.
That's why you'll find an overview of further tricks here.
By the way, it's a myth that tickets get cheaper if you delete your browser history.