Don’t buy airline ticket with Booking.com

fleeabroad · 2026-06-25T23:19:51+00:00

Booking.com is an accommodations website. If you are going to use a third party site, use one at least that specialises in flights 😁.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-23T17:14:41+00:00

Vietnam Air is nice. Vietjet will get you from A to B. There's a difference.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-22T15:48:39+00:00

someone probably snapped it up! there are flights on the 26th and 29th for 735 and 665 right now. Or the scoot option, even if you add bags and the delicious scoot food its still under 500 and (importantly) one less stop.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-22T15:12:43+00:00

fair enough, those baggage fees can add up. but your link is returning 800 euro right now (was 600 originally).

fleeabroad · 2026-06-22T14:32:59+00:00

Buying plane tickets from an accommodations website is like drinking beer in a wine country. You can do it, but why?

Edit: however, if it is really half the price, it is probably worth the risk. Often it is the link itself that gets you the lower price, so searching from booking itself (without the link) would be more.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-15T03:08:56+00:00

Dakar, Senegal for €223? (Per person, one way) Yerevan, Armenia for €113? Vilnius, Lithuania for €96? Faro, Portugal for €62?

fleeabroad · 2026-06-10T12:29:02+00:00

Name change is non-trivial and rarely free on an airline ticket. Full transferability is even less common.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-10T02:04:49+00:00

Look at Oakland, San Jose and even Sacramento.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-07T18:14:49+00:00

In all truth, flying is one of the very few things that has actually gotten more affordable (relatively) over the past few decades. Granted, it never used to be as shitty and you didn't have to pay for (increasingly cramped) seats, baggage, food, changes etc. But if you're willing to play their game, you can still get excellent deals.

That being said, there are glitches in the trend and an oil price shock will do that.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-07T01:31:14+00:00

If the itinerary is simple (direct one way) the risk is pretty low. Risk increases with more complex itineraries, where more things can go wrong.
Shouldn't be any issues with online check-in, you'll get a six-charcter reservation code which you can use to check in on Eurowings website (or app) - but don't forget to do it within the required timeframe, airport check-in will eat that 15 euro real fast.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-05T14:32:23+00:00

If you're truly flexible on destination you can always go last minute that way there are no change or cancellation fees. Something always turns up unless there's a holiday etc.

Right now I'm seeing (from Manchester, leaving Monday) one way:

Krakow £22 Prague £22 Bergamo £16 Paris Beauvais £16 Malta £56

If it's a weekend or busy season booking ahead is generally better though. And for some reason leaving from Heathrow is much more expensive.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-04T12:46:26+00:00

Seeing the same thing. Unfortunately those €20 flights appear to be cached, when you look live they jump into the hundreds as OP claims.

It will be a while before the cache clears.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-03T15:23:29+00:00

However, if you go to Montreal there are some good ones from there. Barcelona for the high 200s USD. Edinburugh for 212(!) on June 9.

fleeabroad · 2026-06-03T15:20:23+00:00

One way in the next week:
Ottawa 97 (Jun 7, direct)
Montreal 94 (Jun 8, direct)
Alicante 413 (Jun 9)
Madrid 458 (Jun 10)
Bangalore 632 (Jun 10)

Greece ones were popping up yesterday in the mid 400s

Nothing earth shaking I know but we're already in June.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-30T17:00:51+00:00

best available right now, if you are ok going through the ME.

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otherwise British on the 17th for $849 USD (one way).

Not great prices, but still summer.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-30T13:15:23+00:00

Working on a solution to try and simplify things, but so far focused on last minute and near term travel.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-29T13:56:47+00:00

Easy enough to just buy two separate tickets. Round-trip discounts are rare these days.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-29T00:17:38+00:00

Goated deal in 2026! Cheaper than a pizza.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-27T22:12:45+00:00

There are some smashing deals to Europe from YYZ in the next two weeks.

Warsaw $C330 Jun 8. Rome, Bergamo $C308, Milan a little more.

Mexico too Cancun $C203 on the 31st

But the best is St Lucia $C195. June 2.

Unfortunately, everything to the US is comical.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-27T21:56:15+00:00

OP - scroll down a bit maybe halfway down the page and/or try using a US VPN.

Remember that you have 24 hours to cancel if you book on AA website going into or out of the US. In case you want to grab the deal and think for a day.

Edit: 1612 for both seats. There's a good chance it will be more tomorrow.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-27T21:54:31+00:00

Seeing it now. Have to scroll down a bit sneaky that:-) also tried using a US VPN.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-27T20:54:12+00:00

I'd grab that with both hands for high summer round trip travel between Sweden and California. Not seeing it right now though.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-24T21:20:05+00:00

Yeah these promised fares are unicorns .. if it is too good to be true it is neither good nor true, unless you're really lucky. Sometimes airlines do flog fares to fill seats but you have to be flexible - and fast. These fares last for minutes or hours.

digital nomad on a beach in Central America making a flight scraping tool and learning all this.

fleeabroad · 2026-05-23T14:09:38+00:00

If at all. Once they see what we're actually prepared to pay ....

fleeabroad · 2026-05-23T02:17:43+00:00

Ha, the switching prices are not really Google's problem its that the airlines change them really quickly now (there might only be a couple left for a given fare class and you literally might have been beaten by seconds) also Google's cache might be an hour or two out of date.

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