How We Scored Cheap Flights to Europe (For A Family Trip)
00:00:00.000 | We haven't taken an international trip with the kids since we
00:00:02.400 | went to London two years ago.
00:00:03.980 | And now that they're two and four, we decided we were ready to do it.
00:00:07.220 | So I used award tool and seats.arrow to set up a bunch of alerts from San
00:00:12.460 | Francisco and LA to major European airports, and we looked over the
00:00:16.700 | dates of the first kind of two weeks of that four week window.
00:00:20.180 | Now, if you have the premium versions of either of these tools or a few
00:00:24.240 | others, you can set these alerts up really easily across a bunch of
00:00:28.020 | different destinations with all kinds of criteria from cabins to stops,
00:00:32.660 | to duration, maximum number of miles, maximum fees, and really, we didn't
00:00:37.300 | care where we ended up because we were only looking at direct flights
00:00:40.460 | from San Francisco and from pretty much every city in Europe you can
00:00:43.860 | get to direct, it's really easy to buy a short ticket from Paris or
00:00:48.420 | London or Frankfurt or Zurich to somewhere else in Europe.
00:00:51.100 | So we were really flexible.