I have been a huge google flights fan and have saved thousands of dollars over the past 5 years travelling the world (74 countries, 6 continents so far) but even I learned a couple of useful hacks - great video - thanks! For those who haven't used google flights - you are OVERPAYING!!!!!
Is this still working? I don't think this trick works anymore. It seems that all airlines will assume any round trip from USA is considered a trip by USA customers no matter if you are making the purchase from outside of USA.
I’ve used Google flights many times and I didn’t know you could search by continent or for specific dates with no destination in mind! You’ve saved me a ton of time. Thanks :)
I've been accustomed to using Google Flights, Skyscanner, and the like for years now...but I still learned quite a few things from your video. Many thanks. Hope to hit 100 countries soon, hoping this video helps save me more money :D Cheers!
That was just a random example of destinations that I picked out of my head on the spot. You have to decide what makes most sense based on the results you get for your search. In that case, I would’ve paid a bit more for the shorter flight. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to pay more, so it’s important to consider all results.
This doesnt work all the time. I work in the field of IT and have my friends working for travel companies. The tools they use and kind of tracking they do is insane. They kind of track the ip address and geotag the location too. the best way is to do some randon searches so as to confuse the system's algorithm.
I dislike all the airline search engines that are not upfront with what options you may want to select. Just about all of them try to con you towards them with a cheap price but they don't include any bloody luggage! No upfront choice of yes I want to chose my seat. Yes I may want Premium economy etc. Grrrrrrrr. They are no better than used car sales people and politicians.
I believe kayak may allow you to select how much luggage you want and it’ll estimate the price with luggage, I could be mistaken though. Might wanna check it out! (But safer to actually book the ticket directly with the airline)
Thank you for your time and posting. Interesting. I was farting around on Google Flights and hit the 'Bags' - Carry-on bag button. All prices doubled and some tripled when I put ONE carry-on bag. Very interesting. Thanks again.
Should I expect tickets to arrive in the mail? Or via a ticket number on my receipt? If so, should I print out my receipt and take it with me to the airport and give it to the ticket tacker or what? What should I expect and what should I do?
You should get an email with your ticket info! A lot of airlines also have phone apps you can download and check your info. Some budget airlines ask you to print your tickets, but it's usually not necessary if you have the email/app. At the check in counter, they'll be able to find your ticket by using your passport number (if you're traveling internationally). Hope this helps!
Although there is a lot of functionality in this Google Flights it doesn't always give the lowest prices. It may give you what you want but you still need to look on all sites and hunt around. I tested it the last few days as I was looking for an international flight.
Third party booking sites like kiwi are absolutely atrocious to deal with. They will wait up to 2 days to actually book your flight while at the same time immediately taking your money. Then if the price goes up they will call you and ask for the difference. If you decline you have to wait 7-14 days for them to refund you and often times they make it so you can’t get the emails from the airline by using their own email address instead of yours.
@@ProjectUntethered they all operate that way kiwi isn’t the only trash travel agency. I recently missed a flight to Colombia because the agency had not purchased my flight when I showed up to the airport. The email I got said booking confirmed and everything but when I called they said that it was still being processed by their booking specialist…. Yea missed the flight and nearly missed the window to cancel the hotel booking and missed out on what I had hoped would be an amazing trip :(
totally agree on Kiwi!!! I've only used it once and never will again. It was just too sketchy. -When I bought my ticket, I never got the airline confirmation code. It was only 1 day before my flight that I got my boarding pass and confirmation code from Kiwi!! Now this was just a flight from SFO to LAX, but had it been a bigger trip (like international) I can imagine it would be more stressful. -At one point, I called 3 days before my flight (well before the 48 hour timeline to cancel/rebook) to cancel my booking and get flight credit back. Called customer service and they wouldn't even give me flight credit back even though I was within the 48-hour cancellation policy. -Customer service is trash. Not professional and helpful. It sounded like I was calling the next door neighbor while they were cooking. I swear. -Not necessarily related to Kiwi, but more of an annoyance with booking 3rd party: if you want to add your TSA precheck #, you have to call the airline to add it. Just an unnecessary extra step.
@@annejillianmonsanto8565 when i got the confirmation email saying the booking was confirmed, i started to look for the airline confirmation code as i have always gotten previously anytime i book a flight... the next day i called because i knew something was wrong... sure enough they hadn't even booked the flight yet... it is bad enough putting up with all the shitty games that the airlines play these days, but now the travel companies are getting in on it as well... i wish google would hold them to some sort of standard to be listed on google flights
Long time traveler been using third parties all these times never had any issue so far but it’s always good learning about new ways and save money in the process. I’ll give this a try on my next flight! Thank you for sharing! Subbed! Keep’em coming! 😎⭐️👏
Unfortunately if you have zero flexibility and have to travel to a certain destination on an exact day, it’s much harder to find good deals. For that, I’d recommend checking out Hopper, which can suggest the best time to buy a specific flight based on price history data.
If you are booking international to Asia. Book separately the flight to Lax and the round trip from Lax to Asia. At least I saw a 1000 to 2000 price difference for 3 people.
That’s a great tip! And I actually think that trick works with several different airlines! Could definitely be worth it if your booking for many people or you live close to the airport 😎
@@ProjectUntethered Allow me to share (Europe trip case) with you my "near optimal" approach, but not optimal after hearing from another friend. I used Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta as starting point and any point in Europe (Vienna, Geneva, Istanbul) to search for the cheapest business class ticket. It ended up with Manila - Geneva at only USD1,500 roundtrip business class. However, my Dutch friend told me that he was able to get Manila - Tunis(ia) for only 1,000 Euro or less!!! this means that I neglected other cities within 2 hour flight time into Western Europe (Tunisia to Paris is about 2 hours). this is the reason why I am asking for your advice. I know if we fix Departing city, we can get estimate for different destination cities (in USA, for my next trip). My question is more of .... I fix my destination as Chicago, how can I find the cheapest fare flying from any city in Asia. Can I not doing trial and error (putting one city and another)? Many thanks.
That’s a great question! I wonder if you could just search in reverse to get a rough idea of prices for routes? (Ex. Chicago as your departing airport). Obviously wouldn’t be exact, but it might give you some ideas so you don’t have to search one by one. Also, does google flights not let you add in multiple airports in the departing airport ? I haven’t tried this in a while, but I thought it was possible.
@@ProjectUntethered not really effective. I did so for European city. The ticket price is somewhat based on "willingness to pay". If the departing city (in this case USA) is a developed country, the price is higher than departing from a developing country.
if only i had known this earlier this week... i spent hours looking through pretty much all the countries in europe and comparing the prices. it would have been so much easier to just type europe in the search!!
I have been using Skyscanner for years, which offers the same options, but others like specifying a country and not a specific departure airport But I will be able to compare my research with these 2 tools. What I like about Google Flight is the interactive map. Thank you
You're very welcome! Yes, Skyscanner is a good tool as well, I just like some of the extra features Google Maps has. But both can help find cheap flights!
Thank you very much for the advice. Found what I'm looking. Got quoted by a 3rd party 388 euros and google flight was offering same flight from 155 euros.
I’m not sure if you’ve mentioned this in your video, but it’s important to browse on private mode because then the browsing history remembers your history and it causes your prices to rise.
I travel 3 to 4 times per year, different cities in different countries, no matter how many times i check google flights, momondo and skyscanner, skyscanner comes out on top every time, no exceptions, i can open 3 windows, same destination same dates and check, skyscanner cheapest, choose different city, same dates, again skyscanner comes out on top
Hey great info, have been playing around with Google flights. Is there any way to 1) specify stops for each leg (including 0) on Google or any other search engine? 2) specify duration for each leg to get longer duration on an overnight connection for example to maximize free stopover without having 2 separate tickets. I realize these are advanced requirements. thanks
@@ProjectUntethered number of stops applies to all the flights in your itinerary I think. I want to apply different stop restrictions to different flights in my itinerary , some non stop, some 1 stop etc.
@@ProjectUntethered yes god darn it your hunch was right - on ITA you can do it with following extension code on any leg : "MAXSTOPS n MAXSTOPS 2 Set a limit on the number of stops on this portion of the trip."
Love the video. Thank you for the info. It would be really great if google flights also included south west airlines. But I guess south west has all this features in their website themselves.
It doesn't quite work in the way as you described. You haven't mentioned one important thing. Some airlines/3rd part websites show you lower price on the page, but once you selected the flight, then for example there is no option with free luggage option(even if you don't have any bags at all), and google flights usually handles those cases and shows you the actual price that you can pay.
Yeah Google sometimes shows if it doesn’t include luggage, but it’s always best to double check on the actual airline website, which can be a pain. It’s my go-to for preliminary research though!
I'm so sorry but im never flying economy again unless it's domestic under 5 hrs 🤣. The first time I flew business I never looked back. You go head & sit up in economy for 15 hrs to Japan if u want to 🤣
I’ve been teaching this on my facebook live for years. That’s how I’ve been traveling for years. Now I already know how much certain places cost before I even search. One place that’s always cheap from Chicago is Rome always in th 400-500 range
@@me-lg1yw same. For some reason, round trips are cheaper for me and I have been looking for a while. Tried one way and multi trip but nothing beats round trip which kind of sucks cuz there’s no flexibility
I've seen where American Airlines have better deals that comes with sites like this and click the direct link from the third party.. so we're still on the direct site.
I usually buy tickets from these 3rd party sites that momondo recommends. If I need to cancel or change dates, I usually just get my booking number that I received from the 3rd party site and go directly to the airline and get them to change the dates. That way I avoid the hassle of contacting the 3rd party site, get a nice price on my ticket and get the service that the airline offers.
@@ProjectUntethered Yeah, these 3rd party sites usually puts fees on their services like rebooking and canceling. You basically pay them to talk to the airline to change date or whatever. But you can just do it on your own. 3rd party sites make most of their money on these services. Just cut the middle man out and contact the airline yourself.😂👍 Glad I could help!
@@fardinkhan00 I did that during covid and British Airlines didn’t let me cancel directly with them. I still had to use the 3rd party company and they took all my funds and I had nothing left.
@@GPCPR1 really? Wow that's terrible, I personally haven't had that issue but maybe it some 3rd party sites book your ticket in a way that you can't change anything without them.
My biggest bug bear is a lot of web sights dont do non-stop long haul (which is more generally affordable yet more expensive).Fly from Australia and 15 hours flying way better than a one or two stop 24 hr. + head *uck where you just waste money time sitting around achieving nothing,lost/delayed luggage and general unwarranted expenses/hassles and cons.
I’m totally with you there. I much prefer one long haul over several shorter flights (especially if you have good movies 😎). It doesn’t work to sort by direct flights?
@@ProjectUntethered Thanks for your reply.Long haul direct gets buried by price (especially by airline sites). Can’t even tick direct flight box (a lot of the time) to lessen the multi stop stop over plans, even if you know thats there is a once or twice a week direct flight. Personally I reckon there are kickbacks to the airlines by the hotel chains and Airbnb collusion ,as the more stopovers the better as far as their concerned.
I always use Google flights and then book directly with the airline. Momondo may appear to be slightly cheaper but I’m not sure if it includes taxes. Google flights includes the taxes.
Great, but checking with momondo doesn't always mean cheapest, I have exactly the same flight on both momondo and skyscanner and it is the scyscanner one that is cheaper
I’ve never booked off a third party website and I just did for an international flight to Europe with Expedia. I’m taking Condor airlines, which I’ve never heard of… hoping no hidden fees or last minute cancellation pops up cause i already bought the ticket。Anxiety at the finest.
It sounds like worrying won’t help anything in this situation. All you can do is hope for the best, and you may realize all that worrying and stress was for nothing!
What hidden fees? Every third party provider has to state all of the fees and/or inform you of potential additional fees. Been using Trip for years flying from China to europe for 700USD almost always. Never had any issues. And why would you fly with an airline that’s not reputable? So you can save 10 bucks?
For me, the matrix of ItaSoftware is still the best. Even if Google flights use it as base, you can mix more destinations/dates/other commands options. It works very well and now they even have a new interface.
I’m about to make another video that shows how! But essentially you have to do it manually. I heard about bookwithmatrix.com that could be helpful, but still need to test it out
I wonder if you'd get charged a foreign transaction fee on your credit card if you bought it using a VPN set to another country. I always use credit cards without foreign transaction fees, so I'm not sure what it would be like on a card with fees 🤔
Hola buenas,he estado probando y nose si es que lo uso mal yo pero Ryanair tiene su propio buscador de sus vuelos. Vi un vuelo por poner un ejemplo uno de mi ciudad a Toulouse del 7 de mayo al 20 de mayo por 50€. Busque desde las mismas ciudades que mencioné ida y vuelta en las mismas fechas y me aparecen precios increíbles. Como puede ser? En teoría no deberían ser los más baratos aunque sea compañías como Ryanair? Un saludo.
Hola Yago! No se si entendí tu pregunta, pero la desventaja de todos los buscadores como google, skycanner, kayak, etc es que hay unos aerolíneas que no están en su sistema. Ryanair es un ejemplo de una aerolínea que no sale en los otros buscadores. Entonces necesitas una ruta que Ryanair sirve, tendrías que hacer una búsqueda separada directamente en la página de Ryanair. Espero que eso tiene sentido!
@@ProjectUntethered buah! Muchas gracias y que rápido,se te ha entendido si. Pero ahora solo tengo una duda más. Que compañías admiten cada buscador de vuelos que acabas de mencionar? Como se puede saber eso?
De lo que yo he investigado, los aerolíneas como Ryanair (y southwest en USA) no salen en las buscadores que conozco, toca usar la página web del aerolínea para ver los vuelos de esas aerolíneas. También podrías buscar google por aerolíneas que no salen en X buscador, de pronto hay una lista completa!
Nothing groundbreaking in this video. Any third party provider can offer you basically the same prices. Unless you are a scrooge and 10 bucks makes a big deal. Trip for example offers seat selection, additional baggage option and so on. Better to pay 50 bucks extra for reputable airline and/or provider than to choose some no name and get burned.
@@ProjectUntethered Using Trip for 7 years, 3-4 intercontinental flights China/Europe per year and several per year in Asia. Never had any issues. I’m not paid by them it’s just my experience with the provider. Cheaper than directly through airline. And i book hotels through them also. Plus you collect points and get discounts.
If you're a Southwest Airlines flyer, though, you're going to have to check its website specifically after all this, correct? Because their fares don't appear on this search engine?
Thanks for sharing the great tools, I've been looking for vacation tickets recently and tickets are way expensive than 3 years ago. BTW 紀律 discipline, nice tattoos. Hope oneday you'll visit Taiwan where there are great food and sceneries, also people use complicated characters.
I was asked to check my location bcos my location is not Added,so i went to do that,but to my surprise, Nigeria is not listed among all d company... is there anythin i can do about that?
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