hi guys welcome back to another episode
of discover with dia today we're gonna
be talking about a really exciting topic
which is how to find cheap flights how
to find cheap airfare and I'm gonna be
offering you my 10 tips and suggestions
to help you score the best flight for
your next trip so remember the days when
all these articles were coming out about
oh the cheapest time to buy a fly is on
Tuesday or Wednesday or the cheapest day
to fly is Thursday or Sunday I feel like
that no longer applies today it's a lot
more complicated than that but these
tips that I'm about to share with you
are the things that I found useful after
traveling for two years and having to
book a lot of flights whether that's
last minute or longer-term planning tip
number one use third-party websites to
help you find mistake fares and cheap
airfares there's three main sites that
comes to my mind one is travel pirates
another one is Scots cheap flights and
one more is airfare watchdog so these
are basically websites that have team of
people humans as well as computers
constantly looking online for different
various air fares such as mistake fares
so for example you might have a flight
that originally cost around $1,000
roundtrip the airline accidentally
priced it at 200 and before they catch
on there are people that are usually
able to score some of those flights at a
much cheaper price so if you sign up for
newsletters and deals like data alerts
you when they find mistake fares that's
number one number two something like
travel pirates actually searches for
both flights and package deals as well
as hotels so sometimes they'll offer you
if you set your home location to let's
say Los Angeles or LAX they'll find
packages that go from LA to anywhere in
the world that includes the flight and
the hotels at a very very reasonable
price an airfare watchdog is something
similar or you can again set your home
Airport and then set the destination you
want or you can set multiple
destinations you want for example you
want to go to Chicago
go to Paris you want to go to wherever
and they'll send you email alerts
anytime they find air fares that are
cheap or on sale that's from your home
Airport to the destinations of your
choice and this leads us to number two
setting up alerts I used to use this app
called hopper quite often and I'll link
all of these apps below in the
description box so you can check them
out later as well
so hopper basically lets you find which
month out of the year is the most cheap
or where you want to go which day out of
the month is the cheapest as well as one
you should book it so for example if I
knew I wanted to go to Chicago in July I
can find out exactly which days are the
cheapest to fly and I can set an alert
for that flight and hopper will tell me
when I should look my one tip though is
to don't actually booked on hopper their
prices are a bit higher than other
platforms so just keep watching for the
other tips tip number three roll the
dice on your destination this is for
those of you who know when you have your
vacation time or you know your planning
period of one you want to travel but you
don't really know where you want to go
and your main priority is budget that's
a really good time to utilize Skyscanner
and they have an option for you to set
your home Airport and destination as
everywhere so it'll literally list the
prices from cheapest to the most
expensive of all the places that you can
fly to from your home Airport and I was
traveling solo in Southeast Asia back in
2017 that's basically what I did when I
got tired of one country I simply
searched everywhere in Skyscanner from
where I was at the time and it told me
where it was cheapest to fly to and it's
another really great tool for those of
you who are dreaming and thinking about
traveling and you just don't even know
where you want to go it'll help you find
some ideas and inspirations that maybe
you never even thought of before and
also within your budget tip number four
is go incognito if you use Google Chrome
as your browser make sure when you're
checking for flies especially after the
first round to always open an ink
Nido window because there's cookies and
trackers that basically allows these
websites to know what you've been
searching for previously in your
browsing history so if they know you
were looking for a certain flight it
seems like you're very interested in
that they might actually increase the
price a bit
it sounds really tricky and almost like
a scam but that's just how it works so
it's always good to stay incognito it's
useful to get Google Chrome and just
open a tab that allows you to search
anonymously tip number five always do
your cross checking for me I found what
works the best is I use two major sites
one is Skyscanner and the other is
Google flights before you question me I
have personally tested a variety of web
sites such as fairness Expedia kayak and
what I like about sky scanners is it
compiles all the third-party booking
websites including the smaller ones that
you may not even heard of and it really
does find the cheapest deal for you it's
one pro tip here make sure you do do a
little bit of research on those
third-party websites some of them are
more reliable and than others of course
with budget as your objective you do
want to get the best deal but also you
want to make sure you're booking from a
legitimate website that has good
customer care just in case you might
need it tip number six don't be afraid
of long layover
if you're totally ok with reading a book
or taking a nap at the airport having a
little meal then there are definitely
more options for you if you don't always
look for direct flights generally not
always the rule flights with long or
multiple layer vers tends to be cheaper
it's not always the case sometimes
direct flights are cheaper in fact
however you have a lot more option when
you allow the layover to be a part of
your route and if you do choose a flight
with a layover I highly recommend if
you're traveling internationally to
allow at least four hours for the
layover because anything under four
hours makes me nervous if I'm flying in
somewhere whether that might be the
first flight gets delayed and I can't
connect to the second one or sometimes
you have to actually get out and get
back in through security so that takes
time as well depending on how busy the
airport
I'd rather be waiting there for an hour
or two or even overnight I've done that
before then actually missing a fly and
costing me more money tip number seven
utilize land and sea what do I mean by
this for example you want to visit the
South of France so you look for flight
from Los Angeles to nice the price I
find cheapest for October 27th is two
hundred and seventy two dollars that
includes one stop and the entire flight
is 17 hours and 35 minutes if you do Los
Angeles to Paris on the exact same day
the cheapest flight is 189 dollars and
that is none stop just 10 hours and 42
minutes to get you to Paris and next
you'll have to do is to check for train
options train or buses I'm just using
this as an example it really depends on
which country or which city you're going
to but always check your land and see
options to see if you can work that into
your itinerary and find the best cheap
budget option for you I would personally
much rather sit on a train for five
hours and sit on a plane for five hours
tip number eight
make sure you stay organized I know it
sounds really obvious but when you start
to look at all these platforms and
comparing your options it's really easy
to get frustrated and distracted I
always type everything out on a note or
you can bite it out to make sure you
know the prices for which destination
for which route and which website you
found it on this way it really helps you
just organize and keep track of all of
your options for flights as well as any
land or sea options and find the best
deal for you tip number nine is a very
important tip make sure you read the
baggage restrictions there are a lot of
great bunch of airlines out there for
those of you who travel light however
there are a bunch of airlines that even
charge for one carry-on bag so you might
be looking at a flight back you thought
cost fifty dollars but with all the fees
that they apply to you and think these
can be things like check-in fee meaning
if you don't check in online before when
you check in at the cow
at the airport they can charge you extra
for that other things including carry-on
checked in luggage meals sometimes even
snacks certain budget airlines won't
offer there's a variety of fees that
they can tack on and that $50 five
flight might become a hundred and fifty
at the end and so look back at your
options to see there may have been a
better maybe more direct route that cost
a hundred and forty or maybe 160 even
then I feel like that's worth it because
you get a better route shorter flight
distance a better airline and you're not
paying for all the random baggage and
other accessories that comes with the
flight and lastly tip number ten is
using credit card points for flight now
I won't go too much into depth on tip
number ten if you are interested let me
know in the comments below and I can
explain or make a video that's more
in-depth however recently I personally
was searching for our cheap flight from
LA to Mexico I was going to a specific
city and the flight from Los Angeles to
that city what have been around a
hundred eighty at its cheapest and that
included a seven hour layover so I went
to my Chase credit card reward center
and saw that I had some points on there
and I actually found a flight for the
same price about one hundred and eighty
four from LA to Mexico City now that's
not the final destination of where I
want to go but I know there is a bus
option which is only twenty dollars it's
only three hours ride and there's no lay
overs it's a direct flight from LA to
Mexico City and I'd much rather take
that option than doing the long layover
and then paying out of pocket so I
basically ended up getting my flight for
free and maybe some of you feel like
that's not a fee flight because you used
your credit card and it was your points
but think about it this way when you pay
for something you're either paying for
cash with cash or debit which is the
same thing it's cash out of your pocket
or a credit card and no matter which
form you're paying with you're spending
your money so why not spend and earn
points in return that you can use later
for things like flight hotel
etc or just cash back I'm not
encouraging anybody out there to go and
apply for a ton of credit cards not at
all if you're good with finances by all
means search your options but again if
you're interested in more of what credit
card I use or some of the good credit
cards that I know that it's great for
traveling please let me know in the
comments below so I can dive into that
topic in under separate video and that
is all for today from my personal
favorite and must-know tips and tricks
for finding a cheap flight and that's
for people who have flexible time for
traveling as well as people who have
those restrictions and vacation days in
mind if any of you out there watching
have any secrets on finding cheap
flights or just a cheap itinerary to get
you to your next travel destination
please let us know in the comments below
I would love to hear them as I'm sure
everybody else would as well and until
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