Flights vary in prices mainly depending on the time of the year. Summer trips to the Philippines are more expensive from June to July and in the Philippine BER (Sept, Oct, Nov & Dec) months.
Here is my process to locate & book a cheap priced flight. Of course, there are others ways. This system always works for me and it's smart.
1) Enter Googleflights in your internet browser or choose google.com and choose the upper tab "Flights".
2) Put in your destinations and choose a date. I chose August 4th and One-way. Of course you'll be searching round trip.
3) Click on the departure date box. Do Not click the Search button!
4) Now you can see the forecasted monthly costs looking into the future. This is powerful to save you money!
5) My Aug 4th cost was $980. Now I can see that a lower price is $686 on August 27th .
6) Write down some of the cheaper flight dates that could work for you.
Next go to the following sites and compare.
Make sure your cheaper flight has (2) 50 POUND luggages included in the price!
kayak.com
hopper.com is an app for your phone. I use it a lot.
Please note that hopper.com and other websites can many times get you from your home town airport directly to Cebu, for example. Cyrstaltravel.com sometimes doesn't do this.
Compare, compare and... if you have flexible dates then work that option as well.
Be aware of cancellation or refund request fees. They are expensive!
In the Philippines you will be using cebupacificair.com and philippineairlines.com to book inter-island flights. Compare their costs and baggage limit fees..
Search these Websites for the Best prices.
kayak.com
Expedia.com
Cebu and Philippine inter-island flights
Hope this helps!
Thanks 🙏