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So do you want to know the five secret tips that professionals use to find the absolute
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cheapest flights available? Then you need to stay tuned. Welcome back everybody. I'm Linda Jones from Crafted Travel Company and today I'm going to
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give you my five top best secret tips for how to get the absolute cheapest airfare for anywhere
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that you want to go. So are you ready? Let's go ahead and dive in. Okay. Tip number one is to
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always be flexible on your date. Now, if you're wanting to go on a specific date, chances are
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you're going to be at the mercy of whatever is happening in the world and whatever prices are
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going to be happening. But if you can stay flexible, you can save hundreds of dollars
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if not thousands of dollars by just adjusting your date slightly. You might think you want to
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go in August, but you might find that January is better, or you might think you want to go in
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August 1st, but you find that August 15th is better. So if you can stay flexible on your dates
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you can, I guarantee you always find cheaper flights. Tip number two is to be flexible on
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your airports. Now this also includes where you're leaving from and also where you're going into
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If you happen to be in an area where there are several airports near you that you could get to
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realistically easily you might want to check all of your airports to be able to decide where it is that you want to go Because you might find that today this airport is cheaper but next week this
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airport is cheaper. So always be flexible on where you leave from and then where you're going into
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check all of the airports within a reasonable distance of your destination. Because you might
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find it cheaper, even though it might be, I don't know, 50 miles away, an hour away, two hours away
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but you still might find it cheaper and then just take a train or rent a car or catch an Uber to
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your ultimate destination and still save more money by being flexible in both your airports
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where you're leaving from and the airport where you're going into. Tip number three is to use
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Scott's Cheap Flights. Now, this is a program where you pay annually. I believe it's $49 for
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the year, but you plug in your home airport and then they continue to send you deals as they find
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them. Now what Scott's Cheap Flights does is they scour the internet and find the absolute best
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deals available internationally. And then sometimes there's some other deals that are a little more
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close, but they always send amazing, amazing deals. We're talking hundreds and hundreds of
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dollars off of your tickets. What they do is they send it to you and then they give you exactly where
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to go to book it, how many days you have to, to find it and to book it before it's gone. They give
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you all of that information. In fact, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and put a screenshot up here so that you know what I talking about So this is perfect if you wanting to find cheap travel options Now it might not always be you know if your dream is to go to Paris they may or may not have a deal to Paris at that
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moment. But if you watch it over a couple months, chances are you're going to get some deals at
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least near Paris, if not in Paris, and be able to get that trip that you want for a lot cheaper
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They're also perfect for inspiration. So they'll send you deals constantly every week. I get a ton
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of deals from them. And then I can just pick where I want to go. If I see something that looks
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inspiring, say a trip to Thailand, I can go ahead and take advantage of it and then get my butt to
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Thailand. Tip number four is to buy at the right time. So as you know, prices are always going up
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going down, they're always changing. So you want to know when the right time to buy is. So say you
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know already that the cheapest flight to, let's use Paris again, the cheapest flight to Paris is on
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February 2nd. And you know, you're going to go February 2nd, but should you be buying it now
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where I'm at? It's June. Should I be buying it in June? You may or may not want to buy it in June
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It depends on if the prices are looking like they're going to go up or down. And how do you
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know whether or not it's a good time? Well, there's a couple of different tricks you can use
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One of the ones I love to use is called Hopper. And I'm going to go ahead and put that up right
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here. And what that does is you can see is it shows you the cheapest months. So this is a tool
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I sometimes use when I trying to find what month I want to go so I can get the cheapest flight But also if you scroll down you can see that it actually tells you okay prices look like they going up Prices are low for right now Prices are high for right now and they going to go down
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It gives you that guide. So you can decide, should I buy it today or should I wait a week or a month
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and then buy it to get the absolute cheapest price? Okay. My fifth and final tip is to use
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Google Flights. Now, dude, you guys, I have been to every flight booking engine there is as a
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travel professional. I have used it all in Google Flights always beats them hands down. Now there
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are a few situations when they're not maybe as good as some others, but I'm telling you right now
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Google Flights is the best website to use to find the cheapest airfare. If you want to learn more
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about that, I have a review and a tutorial right up here or here. I think it's up here that I will
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link for you. If you want to go take a look and I'll show you exactly why they're the best, how
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to use them on all of the secret hacks to be able to get your cheapest airfare on your next flight
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So those are my five secret tips to find the absolute cheapest airfare. If you want to know
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the next step, once you're traveling, all of those top travel tips to make your travel
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