Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder.

I'm talking to Katie McClue, who is head of community and content at Jack's Flight Club.

Beginners Guide, what's Jack's Flight Club?

So Jack's Flight Club is essentially a club of curious travellers who want to see the world, ideally, without spending more than they have to.

What exactly is Jack's Flight Club bringing to the party?

So basically, we have over the last nine years been scouring the internet for all the amazing flight offers out there.

We do not go behind the scenes and shake hands with the airlines. We genuinely just go and find what they're dropping, whether

they mean to or not. We see what the prices are, what we think they should be, and the moment

they get there, we're sending out an email and we're telling you why you want to go to that

destination and what's so great about it. Let me get this right. So you know through experience,

through expertise, what the correct price of a flight from, say, Manchester to Mumbai should be.

And then you say, hang on, we've got this company

which is selling things at well below what it should be.

Absolutely. I mean, I can tell you right now, without looking at my phone,

that Manchester to Mumbai with Lufthansa should probably be about £384 return

for a really good deal. If you want it with bags with, I don't know, Qatar or something,

you want it under 500 pounds. That's what you want to see. Sometimes, however, Saudi

will come to the party and they come in with two free bags and it's under 300 pounds and you

think, yeah, I don't mind trying a random airline like Saudiia and there you go. You get a cheap flight and a great trip.

I'm not going to be drinking very much compared with Qatar Airways.

That's absolutely true.

But actually, some of our own team saw an amazing, amazing flight to, it was Tanzania.

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