are you planning to fly this year and want to make sure you're getting the absolute best pricing on
your airfare do you want to prevent ever booking it and then two days later finding a dif a better
price someplace else these are the ways that you can be confident that you're always getting
the best deals and that you're paying the cheapest possible price for the flights that you're wanting
so let's go ahead and dive in tip number one be flexible on your airports so where i am
for instance i'm in los angeles and so i have not only lax as an airport i have orange county in san
diego and um gosh who else do i have i have long beach i have anyway i have five or six airports
that are fairly close to me or at least within good range by good range i really just mean within
an hour or so because if it's cheap enough i might be willing to drive two hours if i can save enough
money so what i do when i'm looking for flights is not only do i look at my main airport i look at
every airport that is within a driving distance of where i'm willing to drive because if it's
going to save me 200 to go out of a different airport i'm definitely going to be willing to
drive so i always look at flexibility of airports but not only where i'm leaving from i also look
at it for where i'm going to so say i'm going to paris or london or wherever in the world
there are other airport options there as well so maybe you don't fly right into the main city but
maybe there's a city nearby that would be easy access to the city that you're wanting to go to
that would be cheaper i've often found that sometimes if you're looking at an outside city or
an outside airport you might be able to save a few hundred dollars on your airfare and then you just
simply take a train to your ultimate destination or a car or an uber or whatever it is or plan
that other destination into your trip and expand it and making it into something even better for
your vacation tip number two be flexible on your dates so i know you might only have a vacation
at a certain time and that's when you have to go and that's fine but if you have any flexibility
in your dates at all and you can tweak it even just one or two days before or after you might
be able to save even more money and by saving more money i mean you could literally save a hundred
dollars by going on a different date if you're flexible at all it's definitely worth looking into
tip number three track your pricing now there are some websites that will help you do this such as
hopper and google flights where you can actually say okay i'm looking at a flight to london
watch it for me and tell me if prices are going up or going down and kind of what i i have to expect
in fact i'm going to go ahead and share an email i did a price tracking for a flight to london
and got this notification from google flights to let me know that the price had gone down
and now would be a great time to buy so how do you do this how do you track pricing how do you
get these email notifications how do you know when it's a good time to buy this leads me to
tip number four and this is my bonus tip this is the best website to go to to get
pretty much good pricing all the time not only do they always have the best pricing
from my experience as a travel professional but they also have tools that you can use to tweak
your price and make sure that you're getting even better pricing than you thought it allows you to
be flexible on airports that allows you to be flexible on your dates it allows you to track
prices it has everything so let's go ahead and dive in and let me show you what i mean real quick
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much and help my channel be spread to people who could really use my help on their vacation
planning all right so the website that i'm talking about is google flights now they don't actually
make the booking for you for your flight they just bring every uh deal and possible
cheapest airfare available around the web and make it in a nice easy one spot where you can
actually get the best pricing i always use google flights every time that i'm searching because they
always have the best price even compared to the professional websites that i get to use
as a travel agent that aren't available to the public google flight still beats those
so let me show you an example of how to maximize being flexible on all those things that i just
mentioned and how to track prices all right so we are on the google flights website and i'm going to
look at a vacation from los angeles to london just the heathrow airport which is their main airport
tip number two actually was being flexible on your dates here's where you can start doing that
if you click here as you see it populates in what the pricing is for each date so say you're taking
a vacation in july and originally you were going to leave on monday and you see it's a
thousand dollars but if you could maybe just bump it and leave on thursday you could save some money
the other thing you can do with this is say you're getting a vacation this year but you can be
flexible on what month to go is you can actually scroll through here and see what the prices are
and be able to save money so for instance instead of going in july if you can wait and go in august
the end of august you could save almost 300 right there so that's the first place i go when i'm
being flexible on dates is to scroll through that area there and to pick the right date for what i'm
looking for okay so let's pretend we're going to go on the 25th and we're going to come back on the
31st so as you can see this is actually bringing up an even cheaper flight so originally we were
looking at a thousand dollars now it's down to six hundred and thirty dollars so we've saved almost
four hundred dollars simply by being flexible on our date all right so let's go ahead and take it
a step further and make sure we're checking all of the airports as well all right for that what i'm
going to do is instead of picking heathrow i'm going to say all of london in the uk what this
is going to do is check the pricing on all of the airports in our in and around london and give me
the best pricing so as you can see the best price is still london heathrow but if you were to scroll
down you would see that they've started to bring in other airports as well so it includes london
city and it includes some of the other airports that are in the london area so even though
heathrow is still the cheapest at least you have the comfort of knowing it is checking all of the
airports for you to find what the cheapest is so it's not only on your exit but you can also do it
on your leaving so if i picked all of los angeles it would do the same thing it would check all of
the airports in the la area and bring me what the cheapest is now in this case it's still lax
to heathrow still seems to be the best price but you know that you're checking everything
and that you're absolutely confident that you're getting the best price all right so when regarding
tip number three tracking prices remember that email that i showed you this is where i did it
i went to track prices that's it and now google is going to monitor every flight to london from lax
on those dates and let me know if prices go up prices go down and helps me to take advantage when
the price changes and be able to buy at the right time because here's the thing i could buy today
and it might be more expensive showing more expensive and i buy today but if i wait a week
it might be even cheaper than this and i'll get a better deal so it really is a value to
track the prices in some manner and know when to buy so that you're getting the absolute cheapest
rate available for what it is that you're wanting to do for the flight that you're looking for
one other tool in here that i want to show you if you scroll down you can see here
what the price trend is oops hello friends there we go so this kind of illustrates what i mean
so if i were to buy right now you can see prices are currently low for trips to london and you
can see that here and you can also see what the trend has been over the last few days so
you can see are they generally going up generally going down staying the same it helps you to make
the right judgment on when to buy if you should buy today or wait a week or two and buy then or
wait a month or two and by then this will help you to make that decision so if i were really
going on this trip and i see that it's low i would absolutely buy today because i don't want
to risk because usually it says it costs up to 9.90 per person and as we saw in july it was up
to a thousand per person so i wouldn't want to risk getting the higher price and i would want
to capitalize on getting that price as low as possible and buying today so those are my four
main tips for getting the best airfare if you do each of these things you can be confident that
you're always getting the best rates on your flight also there's a little side note if you
actually do buy something and then within 24 hours find something cheaper all airlines allow you to
cancel within 24 hours with no penalties so you would just cancel and then book it where you found
it cheaper it has to be within 24 hours but you have that ability if you need it so if you are
planning travel this year make sure you take a look at these videos here this top one you
have to see if you're traveling in 2021 there's some really weird things going on with covid and
you really don't want to miss it other than that i hope to see you on the next video take care bye