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Simple Tricks That Save Money When Booking Flights You Need to Know - YouTube
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We all want to get away sometimes, but traveling
can be expensive.
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Fear not, because weâre here to help with
some cheap flight hacks you can use right
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now.
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There are few key things you need to do when
looking for flights to ensure you find the
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best prices.
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Data analysts that have sifted through airfare
prices and statistics have concluded that
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the factors which most directly impact how
much you pay for a plane ticket are: your
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departure day, how long you are staying for,
the airport youâre flying to, and how far
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in advance you book your tickets.
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Keeping these things in mind, one of the best
ways to make sure you get the cheapest flights
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possible is to be flexible.
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We will come back to this later on as we explore
the best hacks that allow you to fly cheaply
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when you have time off.
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Before you even think about searching for
plane tickets you must do one thing.
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It is the only way to make sure that the airline
companies donât jack up their prices for
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the flights youâre looking for.
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Airline websites, along with search engines
to book flights, have access to the cookies
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on your computer.
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This basically means these companies can see
your search history and what websites youâve
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been visiting.
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This is why when you search online for a new
bike you want to buy, suddenly your social
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media is filled with ads for bikes.
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Airline companies do the same thing.
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If you search for flights to Bermuda the airlines
can use that data to increase the prices you
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see for their Bermuda flights.
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This is messed up, but it happens all of the
time.
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So how do you stop airlines from jacking up
ticket prices for the flights youâre looking
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for?
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The best and easiest way is to use âincognito
modeâ on your internet browser, or using
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a browser with extensive cookie-blocker options
like Firefox or Brave.
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By being âincognitoâ it means that none
of your cookies are stored once you start
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a new session.
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This allows you to search for flights with
a blank slate, and keeps airline companyâs
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algorithms from raising the prices for the
flights you need.
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Using a browser with extensive cookie-blocking
options also allows you to do this as well.
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We can not stress enough how important it
is to search for all flights using âincognito
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mode,â so that companies can not use your
cookies to manipulate what you see and their
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prices.
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That being said, you should always close an
âincognitoâ window after doing a few searches
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and open a new one to make sure you start
fresh with no cookies.
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Each time you reopen an âincognitoâ window
your cookies are reset, making sure that none
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of your previous searches can be accessed
by the booking sites or airlines.
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The more you search for the same flight route,
the more likely the prices will start to rise.
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Booking sites do this to try and trick you
into buying tickets for your flight before
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they go any higher, even though they are the
ones purposefully raising the prices.
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So, if you are ready to start looking for
cheap flights remember this hack: always search
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in âincognito mode.â
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We have all heard that there is a best day
of the week to buy plane tickets.
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Oftentimes people will say that buying airplane
tickets is always cheapest on a Tuesday or
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Wednesday.
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However, the data does not support this.
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On any given week the cheapest day to buy
tickets can change.
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It actually depends more on the day you leave
that will determine the lowest price, with
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weekday flights often being cheaper than weekend
flights.
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The best hack for identifying the cheapest
day to fly is to use a website like Skyscanner
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where you can see the prices of flights for
an entire month to determine which day is
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the cheapest to fly.
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For example, if you know you want to travel
a certain month, or week, you should do a
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little research first.
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Put your browser in incognito mode, and select
a one-way flight to your destination.
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But instead of entering a date, select the
âwhole monthâ or âflexible datesâ
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option to view the prices of flights across
multiple days.
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This way you can choose the cheapest day to
fly and save some money.
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After you have done your research, make sure
you write down when you want to leave, close
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your browser, and reopen it in âincognito
modeâ to find the cheapest return flight
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using the same process.
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This hack will help you save a little extra
cash if you plan ahead.
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It should come as no surprise that nonstop
flights are more expensive than ones with
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layovers.
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If you donât mind grabbing a drink at an
airport bar, or sitting for a couple hours
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reading a book while waiting for a flight,
it may be worth your time looking into flights
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that have a layover before reaching your final
destination.
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Obviously, you need to weigh your options.
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If you are flying relatively close to your
departure point, the extra cash a layover
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might save you may not be worth it if you
have to fly across the country and back again
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just to find a layover.
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But, data analysts have found that a long
distance flight with one layover can save
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you around 5% on your tickets.
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If you really have some time to kill you can
save about 7% on tickets if you allow for
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two layovers.
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Not all hacks for cheap airfare will work
for everyone, and thatâs okay.
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Thatâs the reason we are giving you so many
hacks to choose from.
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This next hack can literally get you a free
flight.
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If you are a big traveler you are going to
want to get a credit card that gives you the
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highest amount of travel points just for using
it on day to day things.
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For example, the Chase Sapphire Preferred
Card can pay for an entire flight if you spend
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$4000.00 in the first three months of having
it.
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Basically, if you use the card to pay your
rent or mortgage, and for groceries and gas,
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Chase will give you an automatic 80,000 points,
which is equivalent to $1000.00 when purchasing
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a plane ticket.
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Then as you continue to use the card you accumulate
more and more points.
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So, if youâre looking for a credit card
and you want to travel, you can kill two birds
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with one stone by signing up for a card with
travel rewards.
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If you already have done all of the hacks
above our next one is a little less common,
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but can end up saving you huge amounts of
money when buying plane tickets.
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Everyone makes mistakes, but when airlines
make them with their prices it can benefit
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you greatly.
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The largest discounts, and therefore cheapest
tickets, happen when there are currency conversion
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mistakes, technical glitches, or someone just
makes a silly mistake on the airlineâs end.
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This leads to what are known as âerror faresâ
where flights are dirt cheap until the airline
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realizes the mistake and fixes it.
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Some of the best websites that compile these
mistakes, or lets you know when they occur,
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is Scottâs Cheap Flights.
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This site has a dedicated team that watches
flight prices and scours the different airlineâs
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websites for mistakes.
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They then email their subscribers when they
find error fares, making sure to inform you
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before they are gone.
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There is both a free version of this service
and a paid one.
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On average subscribers save around $550.00
per ticket, so it is worth looking into.
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Secret Flying and Skyscanner are both useful
for finding error fares, and worth looking
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into as well.
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Error fares may be one of the hacks that can
save you the most money when booking a flight.
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If you need to book a flight for specific
days, and have no wiggle room, there are a
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few hacks to make sure you get the lowest
fares.
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This is especially true if it is a longer
flight.
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When booking your flights sometimes there
is no direct way to get to where you want
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to go.
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In this case you will want to check into booking
your connecting flights yourself.
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If you book each individual leg of your journey
separately, you can save some serious money.
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This is because you can mix and match different
airlines that may have different price points.
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Also, the same airline may be charging you
more for their layover than if you just booked
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the flights separately yourself.
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A word of caution when doing this.
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Make sure you give yourself enough time between
flights to make it to your next gate.
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If you book the flights separately on different
airlines, they most likely will not be sympathetic
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if you arrive late on a competitors airplane
and miss your flight.
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It is imperative you plan ahead and give yourself
a long enough layover between flights to make
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sure you donât miss your connecting flight.
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That being said, it may be even betterâand
sometimes cheaperâto stay a day or two at
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your connecting location.
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Maybe if you have some time you can explore
the layover city before returning to the airport
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for the next leg of your journey.
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This hack could theoretically give you two
vacations in one.
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Sometimes you know you need to get away, but
have no idea where you should go.
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This is not a bad thing.
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Actually, it could work in your favor for
this next flight hack.
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If you just need to get away and want to see
the cheapest possible tickets from an airport
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near you kiwi.com has your back.
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All you need to do is go to their website
and select your departure city and dates of
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flying.
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Then Kiwi does the rest by providing you with
a list sorted by price of all the countries
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and destinations you can fly to cheaply.
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This makes it easy for you to identify the
best place to go for the smallest amount of
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money.
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You may even end up someplace you never thought
youâd be able to afford for dirt cheap.
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Or, maybe you find yourself falling in love
with the destination of your cheap flight
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and never get on your return flight home.
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Whatever happens, at least you will know you
spent the least amount of money on airfare
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possible.
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Kayak.com made this next hack possible, and
even gave it the name âhacker fare.â
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This may be the single easiest way to save
big money on your flight.
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The premise itself is simple, but there are
some intricacies that could save you extra
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cash.
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At the most basic level hacker fares are when
you fly one airline to a destination, and
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a different airline back.
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Normally this works best when two competing
airlines fly to and from the same destination.
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When you are flying to larger airports itâs
almost always cheaper to book a flight one
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way with one airline, and the return flight
with whatever competitor airline also flies
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to that airport.
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Sometimes it is cheaper to book two one way
tickets on the same airline than round trip
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tickets, so it is always good to check your
options.
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Plus you will have much more flexibility with
departing times if you donât confine yourself
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to a single airline with a round trip ticket.
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When pursuing hacker fares it is vital that
you book the two cheapest tickets you find
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one right after the other.
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So, the best way to do hacker fares outside
of using Kayak.com is to use Google Flights
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or Skyscanner to search for the cheapest one
way tickets to and from your destination in
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an incognito window.
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Once you have found the flights, close the
incognito window and immediately go to the
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airlineâs website with the flight number
and book each one way flight one after the
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other.
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This can save you big on your plane tickets.
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A final flight hack which many of us take
for granted is: if you find a cheap flight,
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you should book it immediately.
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Airline price analysts have found that it
is extremely rare that ticket prices get chapter
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as your departure date gets closer.
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More often than not what happens is the airline
offers low rates as a baseline, and as seats
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fill, they begin to increase their prices.
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This means that the longer you wait, the higher
the prices will creep.
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It is probably a safe bet that if you want
to fly somewhere to get away, other people
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have the same idea.
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If you wait, those other people will snatch
up the cheapest tickets, leaving you with
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the more expensive seats later on.
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One of the biggest ways to save on airplane
tickets is to book way in advance if you know
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when and where youâre going.
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If your dates are a little flexible, even
better.
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But, unless you get extremely lucky, the longer
you wait, the more the tickets will cost.
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It is a much safer bet to buy your tickets
early using the hacks from this video than
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hoping and praying for a magical price drop
that may never come.
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One last hack for cheap flights is: use the
flight hack websites already out there.
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They have been doing this for a long time,
and most already know many of the tricks.
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Skyscanner and Hopper allow you to register
for price-alert tracking, which will send
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you emails when the time to buy your tickets
is right.
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It is also always a good idea to check other
flight search engines such as Kayak or Google
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Flights to make sure you donât miss any
deals before booking.
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