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Hey guys! My name is Nicole and I'm on the
Customer Advocacy Team at Scott's Cheap Flights.
Today I want to show you how to book a deal based on a Scott's Cheap Flights
deal email. We're gonna be taking a look at Google Flights and Momondo and
although we do send you to a handful of other flight search engines, about 3/4 of
the deals that we send to the list can be found on either Google Flights,
Momondo, or both. Google Flights is good at finding availability and searching
quickly, but it's bad at finding the absolute cheapest price and finding all
the mistake fares. Momondo, on the other hand, is good at searching dozens of
online travel agencies and almost always finding the cheapest price for any given
flight. Momondo is bad at searching a range of dates and also completing the
searches quickly. So as you can see, Google Flights' strengths mirror Momondo's
weaknesses and vice-versa. This is why with most deals, using both sites in
tandem is the absolute best strategy. So if you're ready, let's go ahead and get to searching.
Welcome, welcome to my inbox! Here is where I get all the Scott's
Cheap Flights deal emails, and I like to color code them by region as you've
probably already noticed. So, the deal that piqued my interest today is the one
to Amsterdam. So, as you can already see in the title, this deal only departs from
Denver and Orlando. It's round trip prices and no bag fees. If you scroll to the
text of the email, you can actually find some pretty important information in
regards to the flights, like if you're coming from Denver, you can catch the
peak tulip season, or if you want to fly nonstop from Orlando you can actually
find that later in the year, but you can find the same price with just one
stop in the earlier dates. And a lot of the time we like to include travel tips
from the team, and actually from subscribers too! This particular one is
about the best slice ever of apple pie. First things first, we're going to look
at the "To" and the "From" and the prices, which are round-trip. This deal is going
to Amsterdam and it's departing either from Denver or Orlando. As I said before,
you can find non-stop fares from Orlando, but it's in the later part of the year.
Next we have the "When" section, and this is when you're going to be able to find
these awesome prices, and that's generally
February through May 2018 with additional availability from Orlando
from October through November 2018. The normal price for this route is $850 plus
roundtrip. The airline is either United or Delta, and the "Buy By" is how long we
think this fare will last, and on this one it's about a day or two. So now we
can go ahead and scroll down to the "How to Book" section. So to find the
cheapest available dates, we're going to use Google Flights. Of course, you can
book here if you prefer to book directly with the airline or with the major OTAs,
but if you want to find the absolute best price you can go ahead and plug in
those dates that you found from Google Flights into Momondo. So I'm going to go
ahead and first click on the Google Flights "Sample Search". The "Sample Search"
has already loaded and it's looking for flights departing from Denver, but I
actually would like to look for flights departing from Orlando, so I'm going to
go ahead and change that... And now I'm going to try to find the cheapest dates
possible. So first, I'm going to choose my outbound flight and I'm keeping in mind
that the email did tell me that the cheapest dates departing from Orlando
were from February to May or October to November. So I want that nonstop flight
in the fall, so I'm going to go ahead and click the arrows and scroll on over to
October-November. The cheapest dates are going to be highlighted in green. So
first I'm going to choose my outbound, the 6th, and I'm going to choose my
return, the 13th. Next, I'm prompted to choose my outbound flight. Of course
I'm going to choose the cheapest one. And now I can choose my return flight. Next I
can actually book my flight directly with the airline, so that's either Delta
Air France, or KLM. So if I click on one of these, I'll actually be taken to the
booking page of one of these airlines, and I'll enter in all my information and
check out like any other online transaction. Booking directly with the
airline is fantastic, but today I actually want to find the cheapest price
possible to Amsterdam, so I'm going to go ahead and plug in these dates on the
Momondo search. So back at the deal email, I'm going to click the Momondo "Sample
Search" and I'm going to put in my departure and my dates. So here I am at
the Momondo Sample Search that the Flight Search Team set up for me, and I'm
going to change the departure to Orlando. And now I'm going to plug in
those dates that I found on Google Flights, and that was November 6th through
the 13th. And now what's left to do is hit Search
Momondo is a bit slower than Google Flights, so you can be waiting a few
seconds. Search complete! So now I know Momondo has finished searching dozens
and dozens of OTAs and has found me the cheapest flight possible for these dates.
As luck would have it, I beat the Google flights priced by about 40 bucks. I also
know that I found the best price possible because this was the price that
was actually listed in the deal email, which means it was the cheapest possible
deal that the Flight Search Team at Scott's Cheap Flights could find. So we
can definitely call this a flight searching success! Now, if I want to book
at this price, I can just click "Go to site", and that will take me to JustAirTicket,
or I can click on "See details" and then "Show all booking sites" and I'm
given a big list of online travel agencies - or "OTAs", as we like to call them -
that I can book with. I hope you found this video helpful. If you have any
questions, concerns, or praise for the Flight Search Team, why not comment below?
Be sure to subscribe to this channel, because I'm planning to do an
even more in-depth guide to both Google Flights and Momondo. That's all for today!
Thank you so much for joining me, and happy flight searching!