It’s no secret that the best way to get cheap flight tickets is to book your tickets far in advance. But what if you’re a spontaneous traveler and want to book a vacation at the last minute?
Or what if you’re flexible with your travels and don’t mind going wherever there are good flight deals?
This blog will help you learn how to use apps to find the cheapest flight tickets, so you can travel more often while spending less money.
Best Apps For Flight Deals
- TravelPerk
TravelPerk is a dedicated corporate travel management company that offers business travelers the world’s largest inventory for booking corporate flights and has integrations with global distribution systems Amadeus and NDC, online travel agencies Expedia, and metasearch engine Skyscanner.
Since users have access to the most expansive flight inventory and can book all aspects of their trips from within TravelPerk’s user-friendly platform, this also reduces the amount of time they spend platform-switching to try and find the best app to find cheap flights.
As well as having access to negotiated corporate rates, companies can also use TravelPerk’s VAT recovery solution to help them save up to 20% of their annual travel budget.
For businesses whose plans change frequently, the FlexiPerk feature also allows users to pay a 10% fee on every trip they make, which means that they can cancel any part of their trip (flights included) up to two hours before they travel. Using this feature, they’ll get a minimum of 80% of the trip refunded.
The platform’s reporting feature also compiles price trends for a company’s trips and compares the average booking price against the booking window, further helping to save money on flight costs.
On top of this, the TravelPerk platform allows companies to incorporate their own corporate travel policies into the travel management process, helping them save money on every travel business cost.
Key features:
Access to the world’s largest flight inventory
Proprietary VAT recovery solution
FlexiPerk for protected last-minute changes
Access to corporate flight rates
Manage and book all aspects of business travel from within one platform
- Kayak for Business
Kayak for Business is the corporate version of travel platform Kayak, and is a free tool to help business travelers plan and manage travel.
It’s a free platform that processes over 2 billion flight queries annually, and displays flight search results from airlines and third party sites.
Kayak’s Hacker Fares, which are combined one-way tickets on different airlines, can help businesses money on travel costs. Users can also use their travel towards their preferred airline’s loyalty program.
Travel policies can be added to the flight search so that users stick to travel budgets, while travel managers can track overall travel costs via reporting features.
Key features:
Access to corporate flight rates
Integrated travel policies as part of the flight search
Hacker Fares
Track travel spend
Streamlined approval process
- Booking.com for Business
Booking.com for Business is a free online booking tool for corporate travel that’s geared towards small businesses without managed travel programs.
The platform offers access to over 150 airlines, from low-cost carriers to business class long-haul flights, and automatically tracks business travel spend to highlight where companies can make savings.
AI personalization features help tailor flight results to individual business traveler preferences, and the solution’s reporting features help businesses cut down on admin and costs.
Key features:
The app is free to use
Access to over 150 airlines
Reporting capabilities to help reduce corporate travel spend
AI personalization tailors flight preferences
24/7 access to customer support
Best apps for cheap flights: Leisure travel
Whether they’re looking for domestic flights or international flights, individual travelers are always looking for the best flight deals to help them save money. Below, we go through four of the best flight booking apps for leisure travelers looking to help them land a great deal on their next getaway.
- Kayak
Kayak is a metasearch engine for travel deals that scrapes third-party travel sites to show customers the best deals available.
The platform’s Price Alerts function allows travelers to track flight prices to get the best ticket prices, while its Explore function shows travelers everywhere that they can fly within their budget.
Add-ons like FlexSearch allows users to see whether they could save money on flights by being flexible with dates, Private Deals allow them to save money on flights just by signing into the platform, while Price Forecast highlights the best time to book or wait for a flight.
Key features:
FlexSearch helps users save money with flexible travel dates
Price alert function
Explore function keeps travelers within budget
Price Forecast indicates the best time to book flights for the best price
- Orbitz
Orbitz is a travel fare aggregator website that searches for and sells flights. Booking flights with Orbitz allows users to earn frequent flyer miles.
The platform also offers a flexible dates option that helps users identify the cheapest day or price for a range of dates.
When travelers join Orbitz’s free-to-join rewards program, they earn 1% of the flight price in “Orbucks”, which are worth $1 each. However, Orbucks can only be redeemed on hotel bookings.
Key features:
Free-to-join rewards program
Travelers earn frequent flyer miles
Flexible dates option for cheaper flights
- Expedia
Expedia is an online travel agency for flights, hotels, rental cars, and more.
Expedia’s free rewards program enables travelers to not only earn points with every flight booked, but they can also access airline miles and credit card rewards. Guests earn two Expedia points for every dollar spent.
Travelers can also enjoy free cancelation on flight tickets within 24 hours of booking if plans change or travelers find a better offer.
Key features:
Expedia Rewards points
Free flight cancelation policy
Access to airline miles and credit card rewards
- Priceline
Priceline is a flight booking and travel app that helps guests find flight deals.
The platform offers a best price guarantee policy, where travelers can get a refund on any flight booked if they find a better price.
The platform’s Express Deals also allow guests to save up to 50% on airlines, however, travelers won’t know the full details of their flight until after they’ve purchased it.
Priceline also offers a flexible dates option to help travelers identify the cheapest flight prices for a range of dates.
Key features:
Best price guarantee
Express Deals
Flexible date options
google flights
Filtering In the Google Flights Search Anywhere Tool
We personally despise awful flights because what’s the point in a cheap flight when you layover twice and have zero leg room? No fun. In order to avoid these pseudo flight deals, you can filter out flights you’re not interested in. For example along the top in the above image you’ll see toggles for Stops, Travel Mode, Interests, Bags, and Duration. As a result, you can use these to parameterize display results.
Stops
This function allows you to limit the amount of stops (layovers) that are displayed. You can opt to just 1 or 2, or similarly opt only to see non-stop routes. This is very helpful when you’re looking to filter to only nonstop and direct flights.
Travel Mode
Travel mode allows you to change the view settings to see places reachable beyond air transportation or with a car. With this function enabled, cities will be displayed that you can travel to by flying to the nearest hub, then taking local ground transportation.
Interests
Interests are a relatively new feature to the Google Flights ecosystem. This setting is aimed at tourists and people looking to plan their next vacation. You can select among beaches, outdoors, museums, history, or simply popular travel locations. By default, the interests setting is set to popular locales. In changing it, Google Flights will emphasize cities that more closely represent your selected interest.
Airlines
This is another super great feature. We’re not huge fans of budget airlines as more often than not, they’ll upcharge on necessary options that are included with major carriers such as bags.
When you’re in the Google Flights Global Map View, the Airlines parameter allows you to select filter flights out of the three Air Alliances: SkyTeam, OneWorld, and Star Alliance. However, if you’re already narrowed down on a specific city, and have clicked through to view the flights to that location, this parameter changes allowing you to filter flights by specific airlines.
Bags
Pretty self-explanatory, do the airlines shown allow carry-on luggage? Do you want them to? Then use this to filter by airlines that will allow bags.
Duration
The flight duration filter is possibly the biggest buzz kill search filter in Google Flights. Sometimes you’ll find some absolutely nuts deals going on in months ahead only to find out it’s a 36 hour trip with 3 layovers and two red eye flights when direct flights are just 6 hours long. The duration filter allows you to filter flights by travel time and takes into account layovers and secondary flights in non-direct routes.
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