We were trying to hunt down really, really cheap flights that tend to pop up at the time.

You know, and it came into this, I didn't have any personal guess.

So if it's something that you really feel like excited and passionate about, feel like you can do better, then that's the whole reason to go forward with.

Yeah, so what do you tell us about what you're doing, how you got into it, and then?

So I am the founder of Skatsuchipflights. It's a subscription-based email list where a team actually we spend all day, every day goofing off on Google flights and Skatskanner and kayak and the like, and basically trying to hunt down some of those really, really cheap flights that tend to pop up from time to time.

You know, we're talking like your $400 flights to, you know, round trip flights to Europe, your $350, round trip flights to Japan. Those types of like really good fares that when they do pop up often only last four or five or six hours at most.

And so our mission basically is to find those fares almost as soon as they pop up and then send them out to subscribers with instructions, you know, about like, when it's available, how to book it, you know, how long I think it will last, what I think the normal prices on that route.

And then like a sample search that they can use to try to book it and get it to folks with enough time left before it might disappear so that they can actually book at these really, really cheap rates.

I'll give you just a real quick example. Yesterday morning we sent out a slew of deals from the US to Amsterdam and actually all over Europe, but especially Amsterdam, the flights from Atlanta to Amsterdam for $458 round trip, which I don't know if you, many of your listeners aren't at Atlanta, don't know how horrendous flight prices can be from there because of the date.

Big Delta monopoly, you know, they just monopolize all the flights out of there. So it's pretty rare for cheap flights to pop up. So $458 non stop to Europe is close to unheard of.

So we sent that out a bunch of people book it. It was great. I checked that fair again this morning, you know, literally 24 hours later, it had jumped from $458 to $1,145.

Exact same flight, exact same dates, everything, but literally a matter of 24 hours, it jumped about $700, you know, more than double the price.

So it's a small example, but those are the types of things that we're looking, you know, skip those $1,200 flights to Europe, come on board, get those $400 flights to Europe.

Well, nice. Yeah. So when do you start doing this scotch cheap flights and why don't you just kind of take it from there? Do you have a normal job?

Do you get the right out of college or how did it happen? Yeah. So actually out of college, I had a bit of a security segue into the cheap flights world. I was actually a journalist for years in Washington DC.

I covered politics, news, current events. What happened then was I had been traveling a lot for work, you know, they just sent me on the road to these different events and whatnot.

And so being underpaid journalists, brought fresh out of college, I was like, okay, how can I sort of maximize my situation in here? And so one of the sort of fringe benefits was frequent flyer miles.

And so I just started researching a little bit more about them, started getting into like, okay, I don't have a big salary. My bank account has like at best one comma in it.

And I, but I'd still like to get out and see Europe. I'd still like to get out and see South America and everything. And so I just started to research a little bit more about like how do you best use frequent flyer miles, how to generate them and get good value and everything.

And then that sort of led me into that frequent flyer mile world. And so after kind of getting into that game for a couple of years, I ended up writing an ebook on is called how to fly for free.

It was just all about again, how to generate these miles, how to use them for free flights, you know, to Galapagos islands to Europe, Asia, wherever, which is much more attainable than I thought I'd always sort of assume this stuff was a scam.

I figured it was a zero sum game. Like if it's good for the airlines, then it's bad for consumers. And if it was bad for the airlines, then they wouldn't offer frequent flyer miles. So like, why am I going to play their game?

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