Can anyone please recommend a good and reliable place or website to get budget flights? We’re hoping to travel around the region a bit and maybe also visit Australia, but we need to keep the prices as reasonable as possible. All suggestions welcome. I can read Chinese, but would prefer to deal with any on-line transactions in English to make sure that I get it right. In person places, either language is fine. Thanks!
i always look at
they have stores all over the place so it is east to sort out when you find the flight you want
go straight to the airline sites, cathaypacific and dragonair are the main ones i use. You can usually get deals through them that match what you’d get from the agencies, esp if you can be flexible with dates/times.
Especially if you’re not doing something complicated like multiple cities, layovers, etc. For my last two trips I beat the travel agent (2 different ones) and found better deals and more flights on the airline websites. But for a trip with stops in Siem Reap and Hanoi (on a single ticket) the travel agent got a much better price than I’d expected.
Check out the promotions/offers on the airline websites. On a lot of them you can get a fairly long list of promotional fares from Taipei, which makes it easy to compare.
air asia also has some pretty cheap flights
Thanks everyone! 
Especially if you’re not doing something complicated like multiple cities, layovers, etc. For my last two trips I beat the travel agent (2 different ones) and found better deals and more flights on the airline websites. But for a trip with stops in Siem Reap and Hanoi (on a single ticket) the travel agent got a much better price than I’d expected.
Check out the promotions/offers on the airline websites. On a lot of them you can get a fairly long list of promotional fares from Taipei, which makes it easy to compare.
air asia also has some pretty cheap flights[/quote]
I agree that the airline websites are always best. Sofar they have always beaten the prices of EZ Fly or EZ Travel with several 100 NT. That off course isn’t the world on a ticket price but still. Far more important, and that has pissed me off big time, is that I was told by the EZ Travel office in the railway station that there were no more seats available (to HK in my case). I found that hard to believe and went home and had a look on the website of China Airlines. I bloody could fly on any day I wanted in the next 7 days that I had left in Taiwan! She had offered me a first class 12.000 NT ticket as the only option available! :fume: And I was so stupid to have bought all my tickets with them for almost 3 years. :fume:
For sure it is best to stay away from those “cheap” flight offers you see in the newspaper. They aren’t cheap at all and also lie about whatever is in their own advantage. I know they all try to earn a living but to lie and cheat by giving out wrong info doesn’t bring you long term customers. Air Asia isn’t much better. When they just started with flights on/off Taiwan they had a super offer of 3.500 NT from Taipei to Bangkok, one way only. Just as a test I tried to book that flight on any possible day and off course it was impossible. If it is too good to be true, well than it isn’t…
Damn, I guess my mother was right when she said:
Sooner or later a lie will always come out (but than in Dutch).
There are three level if you want to get in this “field”
Easy level
Maybe you already know this one
backpackers.com.tw/forum/airfare.php
1.find the top 1-3 cheapest airline company
2.go their website to make sure about the price
Median level
tw.skyscanner.com/
1.Find which fly company will arrive or transfer at your destination
2.recognize which one is the cheapest airline company by experience.
Difficult one (most by experience and backpacker friendship)
1.Make sure about your “next year” schedule and vacation with your boss.
2.Know about which airline company is probably most cheap in the route you take.
3.Know when the airline company usually has a big sell about their ticket (sometime before 10 months~~ sometime before 4 months)
4.fight or hack with the website for your ticket during the midnight when they start selling
directflights.com is a good comparison site :bravo: , they search multiple travel agencies under one site. Saves time and money :discodance:
Well, go to following sites and compare the fares they offer. Select the one that offers best deal;-
Cathaypacific
bestfares
I know EZ Travel allows foreigners to join as members. The membership application states that foreigners should enter their passport number in the space for the ROC ID number. Has anyone had any issues with this or any other problems with becoming an EZ Travel member?