Recent fuel hikes led to higher ticket prices this year for air travel. If flight dates are flexible consider the following travel tips and websites to help save money for your next flight.

Flight Alerts
AirfareWatchdog.com offers travel tips that flight alerts of sales and last minutes deals. In contrast to online travel and booking sites, AirfareWatchdog.com includes airlines such as Southwest and Jet Blue. The fare deals do not include taxes and may be subject to blackout dates. The airline travel site offers a users guide to make the most of bargains, a blog, and fare of the day and top fares.

AirfareWatchdog.com travel tips include searching individual airline sites as well as online travel clearinghouses for deals, being flexible in scheduling and checking fares often. Users can sign up for alerts from AirfareWatchdog.com to be kept up-to-date on the best rates for air travel.

Airfare Predictions
Some flight days are more sought after than others. Farecast.com searches flights for airfare predictions and gives dates when flights will lower and rise. The data includes 75 airports, 30 destinations and gives 7 day predictions. The rate key codes rates as “not a deal”, “average” or “deal.”

Airfare Refunds
If an airfare ticket price drops below the price paid, Yapta.com helps users get the difference refunded. The website says that airline tickets fluctuate by 400 percent and by monitoring that change, uses can save money before and after purchase.

Save a little cash on your next flight. Check out these online tools.