What kind of people are suitable for buying free flight packages?
If you often fly and plan to fly more than five times in the second half of the year, congratulations, the free package of the airline is very suitable for you.
But if you are an ordinary office worker, what you need to know is that the time cost and energy consumption of traveling are very high, and you are too tired for a short time and have no holidays for a long time.
I wouldn't have traveled so many times. All this is to create demand. Then I advise you to buy products that fly with your heart carefully.
This is actually like a fitness card. When I didn't buy it, I thought it was a good deal. On average, there is only a little money every day. I have to buy it. I must come often.
And the result? How many times a year do you go to the fitness card?
So if you are an ordinary office worker, especially if there are few holidays and it is not easy to ask for leave. I can only say that if you buy a free package, there is a high probability that it will be taken advantage of by airlines.
What kind of free travel package suits you?
It is very important to choose your home airline.
At present, Journey to the West has not started any free package, which has a lot to do with my base in Hangzhou. I feel that these free travel packages are almost insulated from Hangzhou.
Hangzhou's local airline is Air China, and its largest base in the Yangtze River Delta is Hangzhou, so it has the most routes. However, at present, Air China has no free travel package.
Let me give you an example. Free travel in spring and autumn is really good, but if your base is in Hangzhou, there are few routes in Hangzhou in spring and autumn (only Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Jieyang and Lanzhou, and most of them will fly to Shanghai and Ningbo).
You said that if your base is in Hangzhou, it is not appropriate to buy a spring and autumn trip.
Local airlines can often represent the most complete transportation capacity in this place. Let me give another example of Air China.
If your base is in Hangzhou, you can go to dozens of destinations through Air China, just by direct flight.
Well, it's a pity that Air China doesn't fly casually at present.
You can search directly through the airport, airlines and whether it is a direct flight.
Of course, capacity is not everything. If you are traveling, I would recommend you to see the capacity of some tourist destinations.
In fact, China Eastern Airlines is also quite good in Hangzhou and can fly to Baoshan (Tengchong, Guilin, Xiamen University, Chengdu, Xi 'an, Lanzhou and Qingdao).
China Southern Airlines can do the same. It can fly to Haikou, Sanya, Zhuhai, Xi, Lanzhou, Chongqing and Harbin.
Unless you are a business traveler, when investigating the capacity of your city and airlines, remember to focus on your favorite travel city.
Attention restriction condition
Although almost all of them are called free travel, these tickets can't be taken on any flight casually. These free flight packages generally have the following restrictions.
Be sure to pay more attention when buying.
limited time
For example, China Eastern Airlines can fly at will on weekends, and it can only be used on Saturday and Sunday. Many people choose this package, fly to a city on Saturday, stay for one night and fly back on Sunday. In my opinion, this is a toss. The essence of travel is to slow yourself down, and flying is actually a physical exertion.
What if we take a week off in the middle? In fact, most students may not have holidays.
For example, if you want to take early morning and late night flights, you can only use flights before 8 am and after 20 pm.
It's not really for me. How early do you need to arrive at the airport before 8 am? It is very likely that public transportation could not be used at that time, so we had to take a taxi.
The same is true for flights after 20: 00 p.m. When you fly to your destination, it's actually very late.
It seems that the package is cheap, but after adding the cost of taxi and accommodation, it may not be cost-effective.
However, everything has two sides. I think the bosses of travel parties or companies will buy packages for employees' travel, and they should be happy to fly products with China Eastern Airlines this morning and evening.
Route restriction
Some airlines fly at will, but not all routes can fly, which also needs good attention.
For example, Hainan Airlines can fly at will, and Hainan has only unlimited flights in and out of Hong Kong, which means that your flight must fly to Hainan or originate from Hainan.
There are only three airports in Hainan: Sanya, Haikou and Boao. Most people don't go to Hainan too many times a year.
Therefore, I think this free travel of HNA seems to be more suitable for young ladies and students who buy Hainan base.
By the same token, Xiamen Airlines' free flights are exchanged for national routes to and from Fujian, and the audience is somewhat narrow.
Today, the same is true of Hainan Airlines' Western Airlines, which is a national route to and from Chongqing. However, Chongqing has at least one advantage. In the relatively central part of China, you can transfer to Tibet and Yunnan through Chongqing.
In addition, although these free trips are not necessarily suitable for the people of the whole country, the other way around (Chongqing people in Fujian fly to the whole country at will, but they are quite suitable.
Flight segment restriction
This is about China Southern's free travel package, which is limited to two times per flight segment. Is to change from Hangzhou to Beijing, this line can only be changed twice, and it will not be changed for the third time.
This is not very friendly for those who are in long-distance relationships, but it is still better for those who travel. I seldom travel to the same place twice in half a year.
So when you buy a free travel package, you can also see if there are any flight segment restrictions.
What pits may exist in Suifeibao?
Convertible quantity per flight
For example, flying at will means that each flight can only change 20 tickets, which means that if a flight has changed 20 tickets, the rest of the people cannot change to this flight.
This will reduce the convertibility of some popular routes.
China Southern Airlines is even more exaggerated, saying that it will open 20,000 seats every day.
In fact, this is a word game. How to open it is ultimately up to China Southern Airlines. In case there are fewer popular ones and more unpopular ones, everyone will be directly deceived. Even if it is completely evenly distributed, with the current scale of China Southern Airlines, 20,000 people will be evenly distributed to each flight. In fact, there are far fewer than 20 flights per flight.
So it seems that 20,000 flights a day are not as good as 20 flights per flight of Hainan Airlines and Spring and Autumn.
This shows the reliability of China Eastern Airlines. As long as there are seats available on the flight, you can exchange them with the free travel package.
These will be directly related to whether you can book your favorite air ticket after buying the package.
Weight of checked baggage
In fact, except in spring and autumn, other airlines fly at will. The most basic free travel package in Spring and Autumn does not include checked baggage, only 7KG carry-on baggage, and so does China Airlines.
In addition, HNA's free travel actually only has 10KG of checked baggage, so it is obviously impossible for the agent to buy too much.
These may be pits, so you need to pay attention to buying a free package.
Most unused flight segments
This may not be easy to understand. Many airlines generally allow 3-4 unused segments in their free travel packages.
Unused flight segment means that after you have booked several tickets, you can't book any more (unless there is a cancellation).
Seats on popular routes on popular dates may be particularly sought after, and positions will generally be locked in advance. But the problem is that only your free pass has three flights. If you lock a distant date in advance, it means that you can only book 1 flight a few days before the lock date.
The third paragraph is ok. Some airlines' free flight packages only allow you to have 1 unused segments, which is the pit. This means that you can't hold two tickets at the same time.
For example, the Anyifei package of Sichuan Airlines only allows you to have 1 unused segments. Hey, you can't even book a round-trip ticket.
In addition, unused road sections are not too unfriendly to transit routes. After all, a transfer takes up two unused segments.
I still don't advise you to take the flight that you want to fly too late. It is necessary to eat, drink and be merry in time.
Nuoxiu was disqualified several times.
Hainan Airlines and China Eastern Airlines didn't show it three times, so they cancelled their flight qualification at will without refund.
Personally, I think it's okay to show no three times. Generally, as long as you don't arrange too many follow-up trips and have a good memory, it's impossible not to show your face for three times.
About NoShow, I think my schedule is too tight in the final analysis. Too many round trips, too many connections. Once the previous flight is cancelled or delayed, I may ask NoShow in the second half.
Who is more suitable for free travel package?
Single, unmarried, or childless, the relative time will be relatively free, and you can really fly at will. I didn't buy it, a big reason is that I am not young and it is difficult to leave.
Long-distance love, each free travel package is really suitable for you, and definitely earns back the cost.
Tourists find it easy to earn back the cost.
GapYear has a free package, which can be a domestic tour for half a year, but remember to choose major airlines such as China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, and there will be more route choices.
Overtime dogs without holidays are really carefully selected, and most of them will be returned in the end. Besides, traveling needs quality, and traveling too fast will have no quality at all.
Fly with Your Heart is very suitable for people who like to travel and have enough time and energy.
However, I suggest that you choose a package that suits your own situation after comprehensively comparing a number of airlines and combining your own situation. This is the best way.
Some hints
map.variflight.com/
A website like Variflight can easily find out which airlines have which routes in each destination, which will be a good helper for you to choose which airlines to buy and fly at will.
sxf.dustark.cn/
This website is made by a great god in China, and it provides the inquiry of departure routes flying around at will.