Secrets to Finding and Booking Cheap Flights. Tested and proven travel tips and travel hacks to book cheap airline tickets in 2023.
In this video, I share 7 Tips on how to find and book affordable airfare, and 3 common flight-booking MISTAKES that are costing you money. I also give a tutorial on how to use Google Flights, and show you how to use FlightConnections and Google Explore.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 How to Find Cheap Flights
0:40 Tip #1: Alter Your Search Approach
1:38 Tip #2: Use Google Flights
2:50 Tip #3: Search Multiple Airports
4:35 Tip #4: Use FlightConnections
5:24 Tip #5: Get Price Alerts & Cheap Flight Emails
6:15 Tip #6: Take Advantage of the 24-Hour Rule
7:40 Tip #7: Book One Ticket at a Time
8:48 3 Flight Booking Mistakes To Avoid
18 Comments
Great tips! I still can't fathom that you haven't reached 10k yet. Good people, brilliant videos!
Solid tips!
I’ve noticed most of the complaints for budget airlines are from people who don’t know how they work. If you pack smart and know what you’re getting into, like you said, they’re not that bad. Great tips!
This information is amazing, thank you so much!
This information is amazing, thank you so much!
These are great tips! Thank you for sharing Nick!👍
Secret cities like austin tx but get off in Houston
I get emails of all kind of locations and dates now not just my current trip. I ended up getting round trip 305 from St. Louis to Houston. I searched doing Sepereated tickets from St. Louis to Houston to IAH to St Louis . I got round trip deal at Priceline for Houston in Tx in December. I did round trip for airlines miles
I don’t want to be on airplane over night for 2-4 hour flight I get with United or Southwest
This was a great video! Well organized, easy to follow, and you in general presented the info well. It should definitely have more views!! My husband is across the country from California to the very east coast of Georgia for the next 3 months for work. We can’t afford multiple trips back and forth but at minimum, I plan to fly to see him and arrive (in Jacksonville, which is where we would stay) on November 3rd (Thursday) have a day to explore the city or just plain relax because I can’t see him until Friday evening he has to be back for work early Monday morning (the 7th) and would fly home that day. Any additional tips for flying domestic with an exact destination in mind? I’m not dead set on Jacksonville. Savannah is about the same distance to his North. From what I can tell though, between now and when he comes home just a few days before Christmas, November 3rd-7th looks to be the cheapest option since he is only able to leave on weekends.
We can’t do 24 hours rule in Thailand or Europe.
A lot of bullshit cheap flight vids out there. This is a handy and useful set of tips
I wish it was a bit slower, but I will rewatch again to get all of the info.
Google flights app link please
great and comprehensive ,thanks
Link to sign up for cheap flight emails >>> Scott’s Cheap Flights (Now "Going"): https://going.sjv.io/zaAkbG
Faredrop: https://bit.ly/3POZCSD
At the end of last year, my wife and I received a limited time deal from a favorite hotel in Victoria, BC for any booking in 2023. We wanted to travel towards the end of the year, but apparently Alaska Airlines allows you to book only 11 months in advance.
In the past, I've only searched for roundtrip flights (except for one trip where we needed to stay in two different cities), but I monitored the Alaska website as our preferred departure date became available. I ended up booking each way separately, because when I was finally allowed to book the departing flight(s), one possible date listed the upgrade from the regular fare to first class as a mere $45. That upgrade includes two checked bags (2 x $30, although we'll only check one apiece), early boarding, more legroom, a beverage (including alcohol), and a snack (selected in advance). We won't be coming back first class though: when the corresponding date became available, the difference was around $200.
I'm not sure how unusual that dirt-cheap, first-day-available upgrade is on Alaska, or whether other airlines do anything similar. But if you're dates are flexible — or your hotel is willing to shift your booking by a couple of days as ours was — you might find a great one-way upgrade to business or first class that you wouldn't see by waiting until both legs are available and checking roundtrip fares only.
I thought I was a seasoned traveler but didn't know about some of these tips (primarily Google flights and thinking to search "backwards"); thanks so much for the info!