I am a flight hacker, here to help you find cheap flights and beat the airlines. AMA!

What sets you apart from the ever growing list of other 'cheap flights if you sign up to my newsletter!' guys?

• https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5p3l6g/im_scott_from_scotts_cheap_flights_here_to_help/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/51yiz2/were_professional_cheap_flight_finders_here_for_4/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5dfesh/i_am_a_uk_cheap_flight_hacker_here_to_help_you/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/5j6151/were_3_professional_travel_hackers_here_for_4/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3ux82r/united_airlines_sued_me_last_year_for_creating/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1u3h81/i_am_a_travel_hacker_i_travel_the_world_for_cheap/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6vjb2b/hi_i_am_george_from_flyreallycheap_here_to_help/

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Great question, I'll do my best to answer this: Flystein is a great service but it's specifically for flights you've already looked at and are looking for cheaper deals. They charge per request, too. Really useful if there's somewhere you need to go at a specific time and you want to make sure you're not getting screwed.

Skiplagged is really for the US, it's for hidden city ticketing. See my comments further down in the thread. Also a great tool if you're comfortable with the risks.

Scott and Jack have great sites, but they use humans to do all the work, and so by definition they will miss deals. I come from a programming and automation background, so I'm able to grab a lot more of the deals. Scott says he sends out 20-30 a month to his premium list, which to me seems like he's missing a lot?

Just signed up. It says a team of highly trained experts are finding me flights. It also says monkeys entered my email address into your system. Is your company ran by automation? or is ran by HIGHLY TRAINED EXPERT MONKEYS??

the monkeys are powered by robots

How do you benefit by all of this?

Chiprana - eventually I plan on opening a premium list:)

Just like the other 5 websites that do the exact same as your website and got popular from vote manipulating reddit? Because it is obviously all about that email $$$ with the upvotes you purchased.

EDIT: OP's account is one day old, got 500 upvotes within 30 minutes. Report this post guys, this is obvious money grab.

"Airline companies hate him !"

"I flew around the world in business class using this one (1) secret trick" :)

What are your thoughts on buying "connecting flights" such as JFK-ORD-some random city instead of just buying the direct flight? This obviously doesnt work with checked bags though.

I mean, I think it's ok for Domestic Flights, if you don't mind not ending up where you need to go.. My list specializes in international deals that save hundreds of bucks.. Hard to do that with hidden city ticketing. My big thing with hidden city ticketing if you book JFK-ORD-Podunk, and the flight gets cancelled to ORD, they're going to send you to Podunk no matter what. Do you really want that risk??

hidden city ticketing

Go on...

check out skiplagged.com, its the same concept.

right, I don't really do domestic deals but I think skiplagged.com is great if you don't mind the risk

How fast do i need to flap my arms to get lift?

wrong list - you need Bernoulli, not me

Why can't anybody make these sites for domestic flights? I have seen a dozen people do this for international but I really need domestic sales.

Great Question! Because no one wants to pay for a premium service; and because the savings are a few bucks. Want to save on Domestic Flights? Get yourself the Chase Southwest card, get the companion pass, and go wild.

I'm a Filipino migrant worker working in Vancouver, any tips for flying cheap back and forth from MNL to YVR?

depends - can you transit the US?

Also interested in this (in my case I can transit the US as it's easier for a Canadian citizen) as my girlfriend and I plan to go visit her family in antipolo at some point and don't want to pay $1100 per ticket.

right, there's a deal (or was) out of houston for $800, obviously might not be doable anymore..

What are some of the best deals you have seen?

Good question. I've seen $287 dollar round trip flights on United (DIRECT!) from New York To Tel Aviv - that's a flight that usually costs $1000 most of the time.

In the last week, Air Canada fares were 80% off for about 4 hours because of a glitch in their system. To their credit, they're honoring the deal.

My personal favorite was an almost round the world trip in First Class from Myanmar all the way to the US for under $500, including suites in Quantas First.

Only if i would have known about this few months ago, i paid 1100$ for round trip from Houston to kolkata(India). Is that a fair deal or you guys could have done better?

$1100 is a lot... Most of the deals I see in my database are to Mumbai or Dehli, tho

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I just bought a flight from Montréal to Rome and back for 982$ and thought it was a good price. What do you think ?

Hey TardisDude!, Thanks for subscribing. unfortunately, I don't think it's a great price. There's a fare sale that's been going on for a while to Rome from most of the US for about half that, so it would have been cheaper to come down here and go that way. I rarely send out anything at that price, unless it's business class.

Hi!

trying to get to south africa in december for a reasonable price. any tips/ideas?

EDIT: Flying from Toronto - sorry about that

Thanks

you don't say where you are. Great fares out of Europe right now, otherwise cheapest I see right now is from Houston for around $890

Do you have a favorite points/airfare story?

My favorite points story is the guy who bought a ton of chocolate pudding to get lifetime status from AA..

A lot of my favorite airfare stories are glitches - they happen less and less often, unfortunately. Some of my favorites are $440 AA business class tickets to Asia, $50 anywhere in the US biz class on Delta, or $250 across the pond in coach on AA.

But even without mistake fares, I find a lot of great deals on a daily basis just by constantly looking and messing around with timeframes.