How To Book Flights Like An Expert (Maximize Savings and Avoid Surprises)
00:00:00.000 | Any quick tips on the, I know where I want to go.
00:00:03.400 | I'm being intentional.
00:00:04.120 | I've got to book the flights that maybe we haven't covered before.
00:00:07.160 | Make sure that the flights you've booked, you have added to your calendar
00:00:11.040 | to add it to an itinerary and that you're monitoring them, monitoring
00:00:14.120 | for things like seat changes, or sometimes there's a connection where
00:00:18.580 | maybe they'll have in your connecting flight, they'll change the flight
00:00:21.480 | times and now you have too short or too long of a connection or schedule
00:00:24.560 | change of any other sort, keep monitoring them.
00:00:26.520 | And what you can do is sign up for alerts from the airline to make sure
00:00:29.360 | that they notify you for every change that happens to your flight, but also
00:00:33.080 | you can use monitoring tools that are out there, TripIt has some of them.
00:00:36.380 | Other tools have these automatic monitoring to make sure that you're
00:00:39.160 | getting the right flights and that changes don't occur in terms of how
00:00:42.680 | else to book, I would always keep an eye on optimizing your flights to see if
00:00:46.100 | maybe the price you've paid does drop with points and miles in particular.
00:00:49.800 | You can usually get a rebate back of whatever the flight differences,
00:00:53.100 | huge chunk of miles back.
00:00:54.480 | So you do want to keep searching or keep monitoring automatically
00:00:57.200 | with tools to see if there's an advantage to take there.