If you’ve never booked an Around the World Ticket or a big multi-stop trip with a company like AirTreks there may be quite a few things you’d like to know about the process. And while it may seem complicated at first, it actually breaks down into five simple steps.
The Popa Taung Kalat Shrine, Central Burma – credit: antwerpenR
Here are the steps to book an around the world ticket with AirTreks, in order:
1. Choose it
This is the beginning and arguably the most difficult part of the process – there are so many places to go and narrowing them down can be a frustrating dilemma. Use TripPlanner to plan your itinerary and see which destinations make the biggest prices differences. Price various routes (it’s free to use!) and choose according to your budget. Take a look at our super helpful “where-to-go” planning guide as well.
» Plan and price your Around the World ticket with TripPlanner now!
2. Time it
When you travel is almost as important as where you travel. Appreciation is closely tied to time of year – consider summer in India, winter in Sweden, rainy season in Thailand, dry season in Oman – but money is often the clear winner in terms of importance. High season travel will always be more expensive and several high season flights may give you a dramatically altered price.
Find out what constitutes high, shoulder and low seasons – click here for our seasonality guide.
This is also the moment you’ll submit your trip to an AirTreks Personal Travel Consultant and kick your planning into high gear. They’ll get back to you within a business day.
3. Tweak it
Once you start working with a travel consultant you’ll begin making the final tweaks to your ticket. These can be based on their suggestions or your own gut feelings about price and destination. It’s still possible to make changes for free at this point, but it’s best not to get too caught up in tweaking. Prices don’t vary much whether you leave from Sydney or Melbourne, Rio or Sao Paulo, Delhi or Bombay.
Try to make most of your route decisions before you get to this stage – it will save you losing sleep in those final anxiety-rich moments.
4. Date it
The next step is to choose the dates of all your flights.
We require all you flights to be on specific dates because we hand confirm all your reservations. Once you’ve decided on what date each of the flights will be, your travel consultant run down your complete itinerary.
5. Confirm it
This may be the best part, the most jubilant part, the most nerve-wracking part. Once your around the world ticket finally looks the way you want it, and you’ve verified it all, time to pull the trigger. Make a booking appointment with your travel consultant and get that sucker!
Booking tickets is an AirTreks specialty, let us make it easy for you!
For more on the AirTreks around the world trip planning process, we have a whole section on our site dedicated to it. Or for answers about how an AirTreks ticket works, read this page.
