Brut McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. Travel

can offer a lot of good. Memory-making adventure, mind-expanding experiences, and plenty of

fun and relaxation. It's not surprising then that most people say they'd like to travel

more than they do. What's keeping them from fulfilling that desire? Well, one obstacle,

especially these days, is that the high price of plane tickets puts flying out of reach.

I guess they can help you surmount this obstacle so you can get away more often. His name is

Scott Kies and he's the founder of Scott's Chief Flights and the author of Take More Vacations,

how to search better, book cheaper, and travel the world. Today on the show, Scott shares

how scoring cheap flights can help you travel more often, the advantage of taking more frequent

vacations and psychological benefit of planning your trips well in advance. We then get into

the misconceptions people have about ticket pricing. From there, we turn to Scott's strategies

for booking cheap flights, beginning with why he recommends adopting a flight first rather

than destination first approach. Scott shares the Goldilocks time window when cheap flights

are most likely to pop up, the benefits of building flexibility into your itinerary, the

days that are typically cheapest to fly, and his favorite search site to look for flights.

He also explains how to use the 24-hour rule in Southwest Airlines' arbitrage and getting

better prices on your tickets, and how to employ what he calls the Greek Island strategy

to save more money when flying internationally. We enter conversation with how to take advantage

of mistake fairs, and whether the high prices you're seeing this summer are here to stay.

After the show is over, check out our show notes at a1.is slash cheap flights.

All right, Scott Kai is welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited

to be here. So you are the founder of Scott's cheap flights where you highlight cheap flights

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