Over the years, I’ve read dozens of guides about where to to find cheap flights. Here’s the problem: most of them give old advice that isn’t accurate anymore. Tips like buying on a Tuesday seven weeks before your trip might save $15–if anything–but I think you’d rather buy extremely cheap flights and save $150 or […]
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You don’t realize how big the planet is until you spend 32 hours getting to China. With a 90-minute drive to the airport followed by 20 hours of flying and 10 hours of collective layovers, I had a darn long journey making our way to Hong Kong. My essentials for a long haul flight are an
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We’ve all been there: those days when flight delays rack up until next thing you know, you made it to your intended destination hours later than expected. That’s frustrating — and in many cases, disruptive! — but if you’re traveling to or from Europe, you may be eligible to file an EU flight delay claim
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For most trips, transportation isn’t the most interesting part of the story. A flight is just the first step toward adventure and then a safe way to get back home. Everything else is bells and whistles that eat into your travel budget in the form of higher airfare. Spirit flights are the opposite: you pay
I absolutely love that airlines overbook flights. I’ve scored hundreds of dollars of airline vouchers from voluntarily denied boarding compensation (“being bumped”). That equals free flights and more travel for me, all because an airline sold more tickets from seats and I was flexible on which flight I took to get home. However, for every person out there that loves being bumped, there’s someone who has a rigid schedule and can’t afford to end up on a different flight. Here’s the skinny on denied boarding compensation – and how to handle it based on where you fall on the love/hate spectrum. Bumped
I have a major problem when it comes to deciding where to go on vacation: I want to travel everywhere. It can be impossible to narrow the world down, which is one of the reasons I rely so much on price as a deciding factor. When the goal is to find cheap flights to anywhere,
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The best advice I can give to you is to never book the same flight as me. I’m cursed with flight delays all the time, a black cloud of late departures that follow me wherever I go. With all this “experience”, I’ve gotten very good at handling flight delays. I don’t wish the string of bad luck
I’ve long known that holding elite status with an airline comes with a few perks, but I recently became aware that United Airlines has a few unpublished benefits as well. In appreciation for their “most important customers”, United is scheduling Premier events around the country to go behind the scenes of your home airport. While
Most of the frequent flyer world thinks lounges are one of the greatest things since sliced bread. I love the concept of free wi-fi, snacks, beverages, and a quiet place to spread out and relax or get work done, but honestly I don’t use them very frequently. For starters, I’m a leisure traveler without a ton
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