How to Find—And Book—a Spontaneous Flight Deal

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4.4 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It's time to have your credit card and calendar at the ready: the peak time for flight deals is here. With Travel Deal Tuesday—when airlines and hotels drop fares some 40 percent for late 2019 and early 2020 travel—approaching on December 3 and the end of the year (i.e. time to use up your last vacation days) coming in hot, there’s never been a better time to escape on a dime. But the last-minute panic and adrenaline rush of pouncing on a $300 round-trip deal to Tokyo can paralyzing. Who will go with you? How fast do you have to book? Is this even a good deal? We're here to help ease your flight deal anxiety, demystify what makes a good deal, and teach you where to find them.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and welcome to the last episode of Women Who Travel for 2019.
0:08.1	My co-host, Lalea Aikoglu and I are going on a break and you can expect new episodes to hit in January.
0:13.1	Make sure you subscribe wherever you listen to this podcast so you know when we returned with some fantastic episodes next year.
0:18.8	Last week, you heard a rerun of our Why You Really Should Be taking all of your vacation
0:22.3	days episode, and this week we're giving you the tools to find a flight deal to actually
0:25.7	take them through the end of the year.
0:27.3	To give you a primer on finding the best flight deals, we've got Jessica Puckett, our transportation
0:31.1	editor.
0:32.0	Hi.
0:32.6	She's a woman who travel newbie, and Megan Sparell, our community editor.
0:36.7	Hi. I feel like we should kick it off with our best flight deal wins.
0:40.6	Lale, what is the best flight deal you have gotten?
0:44.4	This is why we're doing this episode because I've never gotten one.
0:49.4	I'm very bad and very disorganized and I always end up to spending far too much money and I think
0:55.9	getting totally ripped off by airlines solely because I am not savvy and clever and strategic
1:02.4	about booking my flights. Which is why we have these savvy strategic people on this podcast episode.
1:07.3	A lot of these episodes we do that are like servicey and useful is usually me being like,
1:11.6	I'm incompetent.
1:12.6	Please help me.
1:14.6	Please advise.
1:15.6	Megan, how about you?
1:17.6	I've recently figured out the flight deals thing.
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