Cebu Pacific (CEB) is offering a seat sale from all its center – Cebu, Clark, Davao and Manila – starting March 10 to 13, 2009, to keep travelers from worrying over high airfares this challenging times.

The promotional seat sale is valid for travel from April 1 to July 31, 2009.  Domestic fares are all-inclusive. Regional passengers need to pay travel taxes, except OFWs and foreigners staying in the Philippines for less than a year who are exempt. Promo fares are non-refundable.

Candice Iyog, CEB VP for marketing and distribution, said, “The current seat sale supports the focus on tourism to tide the country over the financial crisis. Cebu Pacific has always been keen in making travel more affordable for Filipinos.”

CEB is offering a P1,488.00 one-way ‘Go Lite’ fare for its Manila-Kota Kinabalu and Manila-Kaohsiung services. This is also extended to services from Clark to:

* Bangkok
* Hong Kong
* Macau
* Singapore.

The budget airline is also offering a one-way P1,388.00 ‘Go Lite’ all-in fare for its Manila to Cotabato and Butuan services.

From Cebu, the airline is offering a one-way P188.00 all-in ‘Go Lite’ fare to Bacolod, Butuan, Dumaguete and Surigao, and a one-way P488 all-in ‘Go Lite’ fare to:

* Cotabato;
* Dipolog;
* GenSan;
* Legaspi;
* Ozamiz;
* Puerto Princesa;
* Siargao;
* Tacloban; and
* Zamboanga.

From Davao, the airline is selling a one-way P488.00 all-in ‘Go Lite’ fare to Iloilo and Zamboanga.

‘Go Lite’ fares are for passengers traveling with no check-in baggage.  Passengers with check-in bags just have to add P200 to the fare.

Passengers can book online at www.cebupacificair.com or call reservations at 70-20-888, or visit their nearest travel agents.

Now on its 14th year, CEB continues to have the youngest aircraft fleet in the Philippines, comprised of 11 Airbus A320, 10 Airbus A319, and seven ATR 72-500.

Traveling is always considered as one of the best experiences one can have. Either you travel for a vacation or for business purposes, there is only one concern – the price of the ticket. Currently, high airfare is one of the major problem among the travelers. Travelers constantly search for cheap airfare tickets.

Here are a few tips for the obsessed travelers:

* Visiting the web for travel websites would be the first on the list. The web is full of travel websites that can help travelers decide which is best for them. They can compare all the airlines who offer cheap airfare. However, one should also be cautious in giving their information to avoid airfare scammers.
* It is a good time to shop online for low cost seats at midnight because this is usually the time airlines restock their computers. You can have those seats that may have been reserved but was not paid for.
* Make your reservation early. Make a reservation as soon as you know the date of your travel. Many airlines offer discount rates for early reservations.
Travel at an off-peak time, like early in the morning, late at night or overnight. Tickets for these times are often much cheaper than flying during prime times. It pays to be flexible with the travel time, and you can save even more if you are flexible with your dates as well.
* Use a consolidator: a consolidator buys airfare tickets at extremely low rates and pass on the ticket price difference onto the consumer.
* Smart travelers know how to take advantage of overbooking. By volunteering your seat when a flight is overbooked you can earn free flights and often even cash from the airline. If you don’t absolutely have to be there on time, volunteer to give up your seat, if it becomes needed, when you check in for your flight. Monday morning and Friday afternoon flights are the most likely to be overbooked.
* It’s often cheaper to fly to a nearby city if you can’t find an inexpensive flight to the city you want to go.
* Seniors and students should ask about dosmetic airfare coupon books for discounted fares.

Airfare tickets aren’t cheap nowadays, prices of gas are getting high so does the airfare tickets. But wait there are always ways of getting cheap airfare tickets. Most of the airline companies has seasonal promotions and other marketing to provide passengers in buying cheap airfare tickets.

Well I made a list of possibilities on how to buy cheap airfare tickets.

• Book early – if you book at least two weeks on your scheduled domestic flight and at least one month on international fights then you save about 50% off of the original airfare ticket price.
• Buy round airfare tickets – Make sure to get round trip tickets for your travel
• Avoid holiday flights – Airline companies increase the airfare during holiday schedules or peak seasons such as christmas and major holidays.
• Flexible flight dates – If you are willing to leave on the day earlier or later of your scheduled flight then you will get cheap airfare tickets.
• Mid week flights – Schedule your flight on the middle of the week like tues, wed and thurs.
• Some airports are cheaper – If you are willing to travel on on other state or city for a cheap airfare tickets . You can use some of the other neighboring airports around you.
• Search the web – Some websites offers cheap airfare tickets.

Most in the list above applies to the major airline companies around the world.