**TIP** Booking flights online

Many of the rules applying to booking hotels also apply to flights.
First choose your destination. Shop around. There are many flight sites.

• Make sure you check the national airline of the country you are departing from and the one you are going to.
• Some sites quote the prices before tax, so look for the small print.
• You can save a lot of money if you are willing to have a lay over of a few hours in the airline's home airport.
• Note whether the time of arrival at your destination is not the next day. That can be a nasty surprise.
• If you fly regularly it can pay to join a frequent flier club sothat you get points that can be used for discounts, and free flights (it doesn't hapen often, as you really have to fly alot). If you do join one check out it's partners, so that you can get points from hotels, and other airlines as well.
• There are sites that check other sites for you. Rather do it yourself.
• Prices change, so start looking as far ahead as possible and check back regularly. The earlier you book the cheaper.
• Book off season.
• If you are flexable fly to a city nearwhere you want to go, if it is cheaper. YOu will also get to see another city. Capital cities are of course cheaper to fly to.
• Kayak have a helpful chart called "Chart view" which shows the whole month and which periods are cheaper or more expencive for your flight.

So here are some of my favorite sites in an example of price comparing:

There are many other sites, just search and search, if flying from UK try ryanair, don't forget to check the airline sites, and charter flights.

A return flight from Tel Aviv to Hamburg.

http://www.kayak.com/ Lufthansa $442

http://www.travelocity.com/ Lufthansa $446, El AL$ 476

http://www.czechairlines.com/en/portal/homepage/il_homepage.htm $422 not exact dates

http://www.edreams.com/edreams/english/ $876 Turkish air (for some destinations edream are good. The outward and inward flight prices are quoted seperately)

http://www.expedia.com/daily/home/default.asp?rfrr=-1065 Lufthansa $448

http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/us/homepage?l=en&nodeid=1678690&cid=1000390 $585