Hey guys, Ryan here!
Today, I'm going to film a short tutorial on how I find the cheapest flights using Kayaks
price alert feature.
This little travel hacking tip of mine that I'm about to share with you could possibly
save you a couple hundred dollars if your dates are flexible enough.
As always, remember that flexibility in dates, times and stopovers is really key when finding
the cheapest flights online.
So let's start off by going to kayak.com.
Okay, I'm already here.
You're going to click on the login button which is going to be here.
I'm already logged in so it just says my account.
Once you're all logged in, we're going to hit the more button.
Then we're going to hit price alerts.
Now that we're here, you can see I have a few different price alerts already setup.
One is JFK to Bangkok and my maximum price I want to pay is one thousand.
I have it set to weekly so that Kayak sends me a weekly roundup email saying hey ryan,
here's the flights that are under a thousand dollars from JFK to Bangkok.
I have Boston to Bangkok as well for up to a thousand.
Cancun to Boston for up to three seventy five, and so on.
What I'm going to do is show you how to add your own flight price alert.
All you have to do is start by clicking add a flight price alert.
Now, as you can see, we're on the exact dates tab.
The exact dates tab is for people that don't have flexibility, right.
They just have vacation time, it is what it is.
It's march twelfth to the nineteenth, let's just say.
So, let's do Boston, Las Vegas.
Let's just say we want to go to Vegas.
Roundtrip is fine.
Departure date march twelfth, return march nineteenth.
We'll set the rate to four hundred fifty dollars which is the max price I want to pay for the
ticket.
Any stops or nonstop, any stops is fine.
One traveler, economy and send as email.
You can also send as iPhone notification but I usually send as email.
Then, the send frequency is either weekly or daily.
Weekly will give you a weekly round up and daily will be a daily email as long as the
flight prices are lower than your maximum price here so if you set your price low enough
that you know it's reasonable, you know that average flights usually go for on this route,
then it's okay.
But, if you set your price really high and all the flights are lower than this number,
then you're going to get a daily email and I don't like to get emails every single day,
I don't know about you.
Let's go ahead and click save.
So, now we are all set.
Basically, right here we have Boston to Las Vegas on Wednesday March 12th to the 19th
and I'm willing to spend up to four hundred fifty dollars.
Anytime it's less than four hundred fifty dollars, kayak.com is going to send me an
email saying hey ryan, waving flags at me saying hey, its under four fifty, book your
ticket.
Now, if you're really flexible and that's where the real savings are, you can go back
up to add a flight price alert and we're going to do flexible.
Then we're going to do Cancun to Boston and leaving anytime.
You can choose leaving anytime this year if you're really flexible like me, or you can
do upcoming weekends, or you can choose a month like anytime in June, August, September
and so on.
I'm going to do anytime.
Then we'll put in three hundred seventy five dollars, which is a really good deal because
generally speaking flights from Boston to Cancun or vice versa usually run from three
hundred and fifty to four hundred dollars at the lowest.
So, three seventy five is pretty good.
I won't be getting emails all the time, but I'll be getting the best deals in my email.
Any stops is fine with me, send as email.
I'll do daily and then we'll hit save.
So, as you can see I have Cancun to Boston for up to three hundred and seventy five dollars
and anytime that fare goes under that, I'm going to receive a daily email.
Awesome.
One quick thing to show you here.
This is your price alert dashboard.
You can come in and change, pause and even delete your price alerts as well.
If I wanted to go to change, I can edit this price alert and I actually can see a sample
price alert.
So, I'm going to show you what it looks like.
When you get an alert in your email, it's going to look like this.
It's going to say, here are your requested alerts.
It's going to show your departure and arrival city, and it's going to give you the breakdown
of each flight.
Anyway, that's just a sample.
Yeah, so you can come back in and edit this if you like.
If not, just hit save.
All set.
There you go, that's my little travel hacking tip on how to find the cheapest flights.
Hopefully you'll find this helpful.
If you have any other questions regarding travel whether it's different ways to find
cheap flights, or even destination specific questions, please feel free to leave a comment
in the video below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
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