so yesterday I put this photo on my
Instagram story that highlighted this
roundtrip ticket that I got 450 bucks
from San Antonio to Phoenix I got a lot
of questions from different people
asking how I was able to find such a
cheap ticket it got me thinking and I
wanted to create this video to show you
guys the tool that I use in my process
when I'm hunting for cheap fares so with
that being said I'm gonna jump on the
computer here and try and show you how I
find flights using the Google flight
system fill in your departure city so
for me in Texas I can fly from San
Antonio Austin and Houston and then
we're gonna leave arrivals empty this is
how we can find something in the next
few days this is really good for like
spontaneous trips and then for the dates
don't focus on when exactly you want to
fly what you want to fill in is how many
days you're going to be gone so I'm
gonna mark five days and then I'm gonna
click search to find the the cheapest
one in the nearest proximity now you're
gonna see is everything in the u.s. from
these airports on these days like quick
glance $66 to Albuquerque 111 dollars to
Chicago so it's March 23rd right now
this is flying two or three weeks from
now well okay so let's say you don't
want to fly to the US and let's say you
want to find you want this map but in
Europe so 648 to Dublin 612 to Moscow
but yeah let's go back to America
let's jump into Seattle I like Seattle
so view flights and that's not Alaska
air so what these four boxes do is they
show you tips to save you money so the
first one is if I picked a different day
I could have spent 83 dollars instead of
119 so I'm gonna click that shows me
this $83 flight on frontier now if you
don't want to fly on the budget airlines
like frontier spirit you can mark them
off you can come to Airlines and check
off frontier and spirit and there you
can see it auto updates to a nonstop
that's four hours long for $217 where
you can also save money because we've
selected these five days you can go to
come to the price graph here and you can
see on average when the best time to
leave is so now we've got this filter
set and you can see average price is
about two hundred and twenty four
dollars but you can see this dip on May
2nd were May 9th for one hundred and
thirty seven dollars so if I click that
you can see that on United still a
nonstop flight for four hours at 7:45
from Houston that's how I've been able
to find flights just a couple weeks ago
I found a flight for $74 to San
Francisco from San Antonio so on well
the cheapest you can find is 166 I paid
seventy four dollars but it looks like
the average is about two hundred and
fifty so I saved four times the amount
that I would have paid if I hadn't used
Google flights yes so in the comments
guys let me know if this helped you let
me know if you find really awesome deals
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watching