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How? Get your time machine tuned up and go back 10-15 years when those things existed with any frequency.
Lol exactly right. International airfare in particular has really exploded price-wise in recent years (and way, way more so than inflation). There are no tricks for getting good deals, but the usual rules apply - travel offseason or shoulder season and not during school breaks whenever possible. Also, use Google flights to search broadly and flexibly - if you want to visit Europe for example you can plug in dates from your departure city and see a map of Europe with exact prices for each city. If you're dead set on Italy in the Summer, prepare to pay through the nose, but you might be surprised to find fun alternatives (in August 2022 we visited Sweden for around $600/person for non-stop airfare from NYC and stumbled across it using this method - and it was a wonderful trip).
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If you have a particular destination, you can enter it into fare finder apps, and they'll email you the bargains when they pop up. You must act fast, and sometimes use a VPN or switch browsers if a previous sale price placed a cookie on your browser. (Cannot repeat the low price). Often they're sold out quickly.
Skiplagged. "Hidden city" deals can sometimes work. But you can't check luggage, or it will go to the final destination which you booked----- not the true arrival city you intend to visit and stay in.
Skiplagged has added their own stupid fee now. A product of their popularity and success, I guess.
How it works: (This is what we did: ) Book from Boston to Kailua-Kona in Hawaii on the Big Island. But we get off the plane in Honolulu, which is where we want to go. It was much cheaper to book to Kailua-Kona, somehow, which would have involved a stop and a wait and a change of planes. (Hawaiian Air.) Carry-on stuff travels with you, so we took it with us and simply left the airport.
The fact that such a crazy arrangement can be had just points out the crazy, illogical, arcane, esoteric crapola rip-off method the airlines use to set the prices of tickets. Motherlovers. https://skiplagged.com/
Skiplagged. "Hidden city" deals can sometimes work. But you can't check luggage, or it will go to the final destination which you booked----- not the true arrival city you intend to visit and stay in.
Skiplagged has added their own stupid fee now. A product of their popularity and success, I guess.
How it works: (This is what we did: ) Book from Boston to Kailua-Kona in Hawaii on the Big Island. But we get off the plane in Honolulu, which is where we want to go. It was much cheaper to book to Kailua-Kona, somehow, which would have involved a stop and a wait and a change of planes. (Hawaiian Air.) Carry-on stuff travels with you, so we took it with us and simply left the airport.
The fact that such a crazy arrangement can be had just points out the crazy, illogical, arcane, esoteric crapola rip-off method the airlines use to set the prices of tickets. Motherlovers. https://skiplagged.com/
And be sure to consider the consequences if the airline decides to object. Which they are doing more and more frequently.
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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....... Southwest's is a good model for what a flight-search site ought to be.
For one month about 5 yrs ago, SWA hade a "low fare finder", where you could specify a departure airport, then 'mouse over' their entire route map and see the price to any destination they fly to. That was a very handy way to find a great deal to a destination you might be interested to go to, but had not considered.
Google flights does this if you don't put in a destination. Quite handy to determine the least expensive hub to fly into, such as points in Europe and Asia.
One must be careful, as inexpensive routes may be several legs, or long layovers.
I'll embrace AI... Here's my profile, (carriers, route, class of service, seating preference, preference of time of day to travel, window of dates, preferred costs) find my options, and reserve me a spot (with free 24 hr cancellation)
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