these days it hasn't been cheaper to travel the world I'm gonna share with
you my tips tricks and a travel hack that I use to get a good deal price is
usually the biggest deterrent that keeps people from traveling nowadays cheap
flights are everywhere for example I live in New York City and if I pay more
than five hundred dollars for a flight to Europe I feel like I'm getting ripped
off that wasn't the case a few years ago nowadays $400 flights to Europe are the
new normal it seems so here are my tips on how you can get a good deal number
one you have to be flexible be flexible the travel dates be flexible with your
airports be flexible with your Airlines you just have to be flexible all around
sometimes picking a flight that the parts during the week is a lot cheaper
than a flight on the weekends flights on the weekend are often more expensive
because people usually are off and that's when they choose to do their
traveling so you just have to try to go during those off-peak hours and you'll
most likely get a good deal you also have to be flexible and choosing your
airports take for example New York City we have three different airports in a
pretty short distance from each other we have LaGuardia Newark and JFK if you
search for flights that are leaving from NYC rather than a specific airport
you're searching for three different airports at the same time in that way
you can see which one is offering the cheapest flights you can also do this
with your arrival city London in Paris for example have multiple airports that
are pretty close to the city center so if you just type in PA R or Paris into
the airport code you'll be searching for those airports in London ello in this
way you'll be searching across multiple airports to see which one has the
cheapest flight one thing to take into account though is how far that airport
is from where you're gonna be staying if an airport is a little further out and
is only moderately cheaper take into account the transportation cost and the
convenience if you're not saving that much money you might as well book the
airport that's closer number to play travel roulette basically be open to new
destinations and new experiences sometimes the cities that are cheaper or
sometimes the countries that are cheaper are not
the ones that you necessarily want to travel to but have an open mind and try
those places out because you might have a really good experience I did this one
time when I was trying to plan a trip I was looking for a more party beachy
atmosphere but at the time China was the cheapest place to go to so I was like
you know what let's take a trip to China let's see what all that's about over
there so we went over there it was amazing it was one of the best trips
I've ever taken number three is joining a mailing list
and following the right accounts on social media playing tribal roulette is
awesome but being on a mailing list makes sure that you never miss any deals
some random destinations my favorite mailing list is Scott's cheap flights
you should join Scotts cheap flights there's two different membership tiers
there's a free version that sends you emails periodically and then there's a
paid version that's $39 a year that is awesome they'll send you a lot more
emails so you won't miss anything $39 might sound like a lot of money but
if you think about it this way if you just booked one flight one flight a year
from that mailing list that's gonna be a lot more money that you'll be saving
than that $39 so definitely go ahead and do that some accounts that you should
follow on Twitter are TPG alerts airfare watchdog and the flight deal there are a
bunch of websites that I use to try to get a good deal and Google flights is my
number one resource Google flights is a very powerful website and it gives you a
bunch of search parameters and constraints so that you can search for
the perfect flight it's probably the easiest way to look up when it's
cheapest to travel to a particular destination what I love about it is the
flexibility in the ways you can search so you have a window to travel from
April 2nd to April 10th but you don't know where to go
you can type in those search parameters and then look at the map of the world to
see where you can go during those dates and what price it will cost you it's
pretty cool to see where your money can take you what's cool is that you can
filter through some options like airline alliance if you care about status if you
want to announce that fly price and even travel times this has changed the way I
look up travel and it puts a lot of destinations that I didn't think I'll be
going to anytime soon in perspective Google flights is really cool and it's
changed the way I look for flights another good option is all the flight
deals calm this is a really cool site and it allows
you to customize the deals you see by allowing you to filter through regions
and origin airports it's a free site so there's no reason why you can't pop in
every once in a while it's definitely worth a peep
sky scanner is another good one similar to Google flights it allows you to do
general searches and it puts destinations that you might not have
considered within reach one site that's really really cool if you don't mind
booking through third parties and not the airline directly is my mundo calm my
mundo is an aggregator so it collects data from a bunch of different web sites
and it searches all of them and allows you to see which one is offering you the
best price on a flight sometimes the sites that come up might look a little
shady but I wouldn't worry about booking through them here's something that's
pretty cool use Google flights to search for the cheapest dates to travel on then
enter those same dates into my mondo so my mundo can search the internet for the
absolute cheapest price and then book through there so I told you about a hack
earlier here it is if you found a cheap ticket but you're still not sure about
the date buy it remember airlines have to give you at
least 24 hours to cancel that flight some airlines are better than others
Delta for example gives you up until midnight of the following day to cancel
your ticket so if you change your mind or if you found a cheaper price
somewhere else you can cancel it and book it there so one thing that I kind
of left out is buying tickets on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so the rumor has
it that if you buy tickets on those days they're generally cheaper that's hit or
miss it's definitely not true but it's definitely not false it's worth to wait
until those days of the week to try to see if the ticket is cheaper but
remember like I said if you booked it you have app until 24 hours to cancel it
remember that a lot of people forget about that another way to get cheap
tickets is by using miles but I'll make another video about that later let me
know if you have any tips and write them down in the comment section thanks for
watching subscribe I'll catch you later