My trial period is up, and while I feel I have learned a lot from the site, I’m on the fence on whether it will be worth it. We need to travel business class, and we would like to take 2-3 trips yearly. Scoring a single deal through the site would pay for it. But over the past 2 weeks I haven’t found one that works for us.
Given the above constraints and experience, what is this sub’s consensus?
Nope. The airlines also subscribe to Going, and will correct their mistake fares ASAP.
Marley said:
Nope. The airlines also subscribe to Going, and will correct their mistake fares ASAP.
Please explain…
Marley said:
Nope. The airlines also subscribe to Going, and will correct their mistake fares ASAP.
Please explain…
The airlines have people who subscribe to cheap fare sites to keep an eye out for mistake fares that can cost the company money. It’s their job to find them being reported and fix the mistake so they don’t lose too much.
In my experience, the fares I received from Scott’s list were never really available. I realized that I was undervaluing my own time - that I wasted following up on all of his bad leads.
In addition, it is easier than ever to set up alerts for yourself.
@Pace
I’m new, how do you do that?
Nope. There are free sites with the same info like secret flying.
Shaye said:
Nope. There are free sites with the same info like secret flying.
I’ve spent the last half hour playing around with secretflying. Seems like most of the offers are for departures in the next few months. Is there an optimal time in advance for booking flights? I’ve always booked as soon as I knew what my plans were.
Are there any other sites you can recommend?
@Bailey
Fly4free is the best imo.
I recently switched from Going to Thrifty Traveler and it’s been much better for international flights and upgraded FC/BC flights.
Meech said:
I recently switched from Going to Thrifty Traveler and it’s been much better for international flights and upgraded FC/BC flights.
Thrifty Traveler is great.
No. I bought for a very reduced price based on a recommendation from the Clark Howard Podcast. I can’t say that I’ve gotten anything out of it. Occasional piece of useful info and always a lot of promotion.
I don’t sub to the elite version, but my $50/yr sub is good enough. I’ve booked a few flights based on what I saw on the site.
Explorer said:
I don’t sub to the elite version, but my $50/yr sub is good enough. I’ve booked a few flights based on what I saw on the site.
That’s been my experience. For the price of the lower-tier version, I’ve saved thousands over the past few years. I get the impression that some people don’t believe me when I tell them what I paid for airfare on some of my trips.
Explorer said:
I don’t sub to the elite version, but my $50/yr sub is good enough. I’ve booked a few flights based on what I saw on the site.
That’s what I have. If they ever change it, I’ll immediately cancel them.
I liked the idea of it–knowing about flight deals–but in practice, the times never worked, or the destinations weren’t on my bucket list, or the connection times were less than I was comfortable with.
I cancelled my premium subscription. Better value from Skyscanner & Google flights!
I’ve found that the good deals are usually to places at a time most people don’t want to visit. But if your travel isn’t heavily outdoor-focused (weather doesn’t matter) and you can travel at times that don’t work with the school year, I’ve gotten some good deals. We did Paris in early December last year for $580 round trip and Auckland round trip for $700 in February (which is actually a great time of year in NZ). And trips to Hawaii for $400 have been going on all Fall. But all that’s been with the free version and economy seats.
I pay roughly $50 and it’s useful to know when flights are trending downwards but not worth more than that…