There are mainly two types of air tickets i.e. general and the discounted

With the passage of time air travel is becoming the part and parcel of our lives. Many of us have to travel from one city, country and even from a continent to some other city country or continent for our personal needs and business concerns. Most of the people in the world like to go to far-off holiday resorts in vacations. There are emergencies as well, which force us to move immediately from one place to another. In all these situations, the most important factor is affordability for such ventures.

Air travel is thought to be a luxury in some sense, particularly, in the backdrop of the huge expanses, which occur on buying tickets. There is an everyday increase in the airfares due to the economic developments and rise in dearness all over the world. In this background, it is not always easy to opt for air travel for the passengers. The airline companies are also well aware of this situation. They make every endeavour to bring their airfares with the access of their prospective clients. In this regard, we see many sorts of developments all over the world. Most of the airline companies have introduced special discounts on their regular airfares. These discounts are of varying nature and also change with the passage of time. Most common forms of these discounts are before time booking for specific routes, frequent flyers programmes, reservation in holiday tours etc. At times, the airline companies introduce some special offers for the customers. It does happen, usually, when the airlines introduce certain new destinations in their network. In this situation, the airlines want to attract the attentions of maximum number of customers to their airlines. Moreover, competition with other airlines also give birth to discounts and allied facilities to the customers. But it happens rarely.

Apart from the discounts of the above-said nature, the airline companies of the world also offer some special discounts and low airfares for certain categories of people. It includes usually the students, military personnel, and senior citizens. The students in any social milieu are thought to be the asset of the nation. They are the one who have to take up studies as their prime objective and serve the country after the completion of their studies. They are not earning hands and cannot afford to buy expansive air tickets. Thus they are given maximum concessions on various things during studies and airfares are also one of them. Like the students, the military personnel are respected in their respective countries a lot. Due to the nature of their hard jobs and sacrifices for their countries, the military personnel are usually entitled for many distinctions as well as concessions. The airline companies of the world also take for their sacrifices and offer them maximum concessions on air tickets. The third category is of senior citizens who get optimum discounts from the airline companies. There is no difference of opinion in this regard among the airline companies of the world round the globe. Discounts and concessions for the senior citizens are available not only on domestic flights but also on international flights.