VietNamNet Bridge – Though the year 2012 would come to an end in a couple of weeks, a lot of people have been hunting for cheap air tickets for their tourism plans in 2013. In order to obtain low cost tickets, they have to book tickets many months in advance.

Rushing to hunt for cheap tickets

Nguyen Duc Khanh, an officer of a company in Cau Giay district has planned his tours for him and his family for the next year already. And it is now the time for him to look for low cost tickets to turn his plan realistic.

“If you can obtain low cost tickets, you would be able to save your money. If you go to South East Asian countries, it would take you only several hours to sit on airplanes. Therefore, take pains to fly with low cost tickets,” he said.

“If you plan to go to HCM City, you just have to pay one million dong only if you can book tickets soon. The cost is much lower than train or car,” he added.

Nguyen Thanh Nga, an officer of a media company, said she has successfully booked two tickets to Da Lat on the flight to depart in September 2013, while she has to pay 300,000 dong only for return tickets for two.

Like Khanh, Nga believes that it would be better to fly with low cost tickets so as to get more money to pay for the services at the destination points.

“I went to Thailand earlier this year, also with low cost tickets. I had to pay 3 million dong only for return ticket,” she said.

“You can save big money to be spent on your trips if you book tickets soon, even though you would have to spend some of your time,” she added.

Nga is now a member of the company’s group of travelers who regularly organize tours with low cost tickets. She said that the low airfares allow them to organize more tours with the same sums of money.

Dang Thu Huyen, Chief Accountant of a real estate trading floor said she has been lucky enough to book tickets for the summer tourism plan of her family.

Huyen had to hunt for the tickets for three consecutive nights to obtain the tickets. Though she cannot succeed in all cases, because “the devil looks after his own,” Huyen still feels excited when joining hunting campaigns.

Low cost tickets have brought a lot of opportunities to young people to organize trekking tours or take outbound tours, which was just a dream in the past.

Nguyen Thu Trang, a media executive of Cleve Company in Ha Dong district, said that her group of friends goes abroad every year thanks to the low cost tickets. In 2011, for example, the trip to Thailand cost everyone less than fie million dong.

“It’s easy to visit South East Asian countries. You don’t need to have visas, you just need to book low cost tickets and start your trips,” Trang said.

Golden opportunities

Following the success of the two campaigns on selling air tickets at 10,000 dong per ticket, the private airline Vietjet Air plans to launch the third sale campaign in early December. It is expected that 10,000 cheap tickets for the flights to take off in 2013 would be put on sale.

Jetstar also prepares to run a program on selling air ticket at one dong only. Prior to that, it sold one-way ticket for the flights from HCM City to Singapore at 145,000 dong. The national flag air carrier Vietnam Airlines has also launched a special program offering preferential airfares for the passengers who book tickets soon.

AirAsia, on the occasion of its 11th birthday anniversary, has opened the campaign of selling air tickets at 40 dollars for the Hanoi/HCM City – Kuala Lumpur flights, and 50 dollars for the flights to Bangkok.

Duy Anh