If you have a smidge of flexibility in your dates or route, you’ll snap up the best deals. Last month I used these tricks to find a cheap flight to Athens, Greece with Scoot Airlines and then booked a separate flight to my final destination in the south of France – and even including the accomodation and food in the four-day stopover in Greece, it worked out cheaper than flying direct!
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How does a stopover to a bonus destination that will actually save you money sound? That sounds like a free holiday to me!
I prefer to do this on my computer but you can do most of the functions on your phone too. Finding the cheapest flights on Skyscanner will require you to have a few tabs open so you can cross-check back and forth.
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Watch for the full rundown of the websites and tips for finding the cheapest flights or keep reading below for more information. I recently found flights to Europe from Perth, Australia for just over $300 AUD which is where I filmed this video. Sometimes it’s luck but there are a few tricks to always find the cheapest flights so you can be gallivanting around the world too before you can say ‘yeah righto, mate’. You can see an OTA’s star rating on Skyscanner, but you may need to do some additional vetting before you buy.Have you heard your mate Gary bragging about his holiday flights that sounds so incredibly cheap you think he may be pulling your leg? Finally, some of the OTAs that Skyscanner searches are questionable. And, while it does have great flexible date searching, its fare calendar doesn’t live-update, which means the pricing you see for less frequently searched routes might be incomplete. Weaknesses of SkyscannerĪs with Google Flights, Skyscanner sometimes displays ghost fares that are no longer active. Like Google Flights, Skyscanner also allows you to track flight prices and get alerted when the prices for a particular trip change.Īdditionally, Skyscanner can unearth some fares Google Flights misses, as it searches lots of small OTAs, which can sometimes have cheaper prices. Skyscanner fares can even be cheaper than the airlines. It also allows a lot of flexibility on location you can search for flights from an entire country rather than from a specific city or airport, and the Search Everywhere tool shows you the cheapest destinations from your airport during the time period you choose. Skyscanner advanced search allows for flexible date searching and makes it easy to see when cheaper fares are available. Skyscanner has some of the same great features as Google Flights. > Read our Google Flights review and guide to Google Flights or our advanced hacks for Google Flights Why we love Skyscanner Finally, prices on Google Flights sometimes “ ghost,” which is when the price shown no longer exists and the real fare is much higher. Similarly, many Mistake Fares, which happen when an airline or OTA accidentally discounts a price by up 90% off, don’t show up on Google Flights. Google Flights is not always the best at finding the absolute lowest price for a particular flight, because it doesn’t search many of the smaller OTAs. And, Google Flights has also rolled out a pricing guidance tool (not yet available on all routes and dates) that tells you if the prices you’re seeing are average, high, or low for that route on those dates, based on historical date. Google Flights also allows you to set price alerts so you’ll be notified when prices on a tracked route or flight change. The Google Explore Map will show you the cheapest place to go from your airport during a particular time frame. Google Flights allows you to search up to seven destination and departure airports at once and the calendar shows you the cheapest dates within a two-month period. Google Flights is a super fast flight search site with lots of great capabilities to help you find the lowest price quickly and easily. In some cases, the downfalls of Google Flights mirror the benefits of Skyscanner, and vice versa.
Rather, we recommend using both to cover all your bases and make sure you’re unearthing the best flights at the lowest prices. Members have asked which is better, but it’s not so much a matter of one being better than the other. As members of Scott’s Cheap Flights know, when we send an amazing flight deal to members, we include a link to a sample search often this sample search is on Google Flights or Skyscanner, and sometimes, we link to both.
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