HOW TO GET CHEAP FLIGHTS

The number one most requested video from you guys to me is how to get cheap flights slash cheap airline tickets slash cheap airfare. Well guess what? This is this video. Now there is one thing that I want you guys to remember throughout this entire video. The number one tip of getting cheap flights is you have to be flexible. There's no way that you're going to get cheap flights without being flexible and I'm talking about flexible on the dates that you're flying, flexible on the times that you're flying, flexible on the destination that you are flying and flexible on the airports. If you are flexible in all of those and more, even more flexible than that, then I promise you we can find you some cheap tickets. Know your airline comparison engines. The best ones that I use and that most travel bloggers use are Kayak, Monmoto, Skyscanner, Hitmonk and Airfare Watchdog. Those are the best ones that I have personally found. So the first thing we're going to do is obviously check the airline comparison engines. They're going to compare different airlines and different types of tickets. Then go to those airlines direct site and see if maybe they offer a better deal or a better route. Another trick is if you find a cheap flight on one of these airline comparison engines, take that flight to your local travel agent and ask them to match that. A lot of times they will match it or even beat the price. So that's another way to get an even cheaper flight from a cheap flight. Check the surrounding airports in that city and in nearby cities as it tends to be cheaper to fly into larger airports. This is especially true in Europe when there's so many large cities close by. It's really easy to take buses and trains to get to the city that you want to go to. Just remember though before you start celebrating your great savings by flying into another airport or another city that's close by, check the price of how much it's going to cost for you to get from that airport or city to your hotel or to your intended destination. Because that can add up to be quite a bit more and if you're not careful then the price kind of negates itself and there's no point in flying to the other city if it's just going to cost you. The same goes for booking red eyes and for booking early morning flights. Make sure you know the cost of getting from the airport to your hotel because that could add up to quite a bit extra if you are not careful especially in the morning time when public transportation is not running or late at night when public transportation is not running and then you're forced to take taxis which are always going to be more expensive than public transportation thus making your total airfare costs more expensive. If you have more time on your hands you can set up something called a price alert. Kayak does this really well where you have a saved route and they will alert you to when that route's price goes down or if it's going to potentially go up higher so it'll give you advice on when you should buy that ticket to get you like the best price possible. That's a very good tool. Another good tool is using airfare watchdog which you can kind of put your departing airport in and they will tell you when there's great deals either everywhere or like certain places that you want to go. Another option is signing up for deals so these are deals from the airlines directly these are deals from tour companies or flights things like flight center or they are deals from the airline comparison engines and basically if you could put up with news letters coming into your inbox quite frequently they usually have like flash one day sales two day sales discounts and percentages off on certain destinations. Keeping on with the flexibility topic don't pick your destination first. Google.com slash bites have an amazing tool that basically lets you put in your departing airport and search everywhere else in the world and it gives you the cheapest flights in that time period that you are selecting so if you're flexible on the destination you can get some really great priced flights. One it's a great way to get a cheap flight and two it opens your mind to destinations you never would have thought of visiting before. Airline credit cards. If you haven't already sign up for one. You need to get a points card in one of the three major airline alliances sky team star alliance or one world and which one of those you choose will be dependent on whatever is your local carrier so wherever you live whatever airline serves that destination that airport more frequently or your country more frequently get the corresponding airline alliance airline card for that. By signing up you will automatically get bonus sign up points almost all of them offer a signing bonus that's just for signing up and normally that's almost a free flight or is a free flight just by signing up for the credit card then put everything that you buy on that credit card I'm talking about everything put your groceries put anything that you buy try to even put like your rent and stuff like that if you can on that credit card because every dollar you spend is a point that gets you free flights just by buying things that you are already going to be buying and already going to be spending money on obviously don't go crazy and start buying things you don't need and make sure you don't keep a balance because then you're just going to be paying interest which is counteracting all of the points that we are accumulating book your tickets in parts this is going to be a whole lot of trial and error that's involved in this booking your tickets in parts gives you a lot of flexibility because you can one leave from different airports and different cities and different countries so it's a lot easier to look into that and so one airport or one city or one country might be cheaper than the other so when you add up those two one ways it's actually cheaper than the return ticket would be say you were traveling from Australia to England and your destination is England check out maybe if you want to do a stopover somewhere in between you stop over in Dubai or something so you can book a one way to Dubai and then book a separate one way from Dubai to England check the price of that to see if that's even cheaper than flying directly to England when do we fly weekends tend to be more expensive because a lot of people fly it because they have the time off during the weekend this is pretty much standard knowledge so fly during the weekday don't fly during the holidays don't do it you are not going to get a cheap flight it doesn't happen holidays are just ridiculous airlines always increase their fares there's always increase of traffic it's chaos if you can avoid flying during the holidays avoid it delete your cookies aka your browser's save settings because if you are looking at a certain flight by some flight airline comparison engines do this some airlines do this but they save your data and they might increase the price because they want you to create that urgency that you should buy right away because now the price is going up buy domestic flights domestically and buy international flights wherever but try not to buy domestic flights in any country that you were going to when you were abroad buy those flights when you were in the country because they are cheaper with the local currency using the local search engines and when you were there trust me best day to buy tuesdays or wednesdays maybe thursdays it's basically just when all the airlines when all the deals come out so best time to buy for domestic flights i find between three months to about two weeks you can get a pretty decent price in domestic flights after two weeks in then you're kind of going to be paying a bit more because it's so like last minute for international flights it's between five months to i would say three weeks after about three weeks those international flights can go quite up but anytime in between there then you're probably going to get an okay deal fly standby if you are super super flexible like really flexible and you're ready for an adventure and risk you can always fly standby which is like going to the airport and being like so what flights do we got here what can you put me on what's the best price where to and then you hop on a flight and it can be pretty cheap i've not personally ever done it because i need to know a little bit more of what my destination is but i do know friends that do fly standby a lot so if you are flexible and you're just like ready to go and for adventure that is an option for you things to look out for um excess fees excess fees um it's nothing worse than buying a cheap ticket that you thought was cheap and then going to the airport and realizing you're gonna be paying fifty dollars each way for your bags that doesn't make it a cheap ticket anymore so make sure you know that whatever flight and airline that you're flying with do they charge for baggage fees finding cheap flights is a lot of trial and error it takes a lot of time there is no perfect formula there is no magic button it takes just trying testing putting in different locations putting in different things waiting being patient keeping your eye out for stuff and remember flexible in date time location and you can you can find them i promise you you can find cheaper flights if you put in that time and it's worth it show me that time is worth it when you are saving hundreds of dollars all right thank you so much for watching this video i hope you enjoyed it if there is any other things that i didn't miss please let me know down below in 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