Been a while since you traveled? Here’s a refresher on those basic economy plane tickets
- Basic economy tickets – airlines’ cheapest fare option – are rife with restrictions
- Some airlines have other labels for these tickets, like “Blue Basic” or “saver” fares.
With airline ticket prices on the rise, as vacation and business travel take off again, travelers on a budget will be searching for the lowest airfare they can find.
That search often leads to major airlines’ basic economy fares.
The no-frills tickets created several years ago – in response to those bare-bones fares offered by budget airlines including Spirit and Frontier – are airlines’ cheapest ticket option and often show up first in online searches.