I'm Scott from Scott's Cheap Flights. Here to celebrate those recent $202 roundtrip Japan flights & answer all your flight questions for the next 12 hours! AMA

I’ve got the world’s best job (and it’s all thanks to Reddit): I’m a professional cheap flight finder.

Five years ago, Reddit helped take Scott’s Cheap Flights from a hobby to a side-hustle to a job to now a start-up with 40 people and growing.

(If you're curious you can check out Scott's Cheap Flights here, but zero pressure. Honestly!)

To say thanks, once a year or so I like to pop in and spend the day talking cheap flights and answering all your questions, travel or otherwise. And also to celebrate Redditor’s success stories getting cheap flights, including:

• u/Dhawk777’s Denver-Tokyo flight for $214 roundtrip
• u/gforcewinds13’s (or at least their coworker’s) Raleigh-Tokyo flight $330 roundtrip
• u/DStudge23’s Charlotte-Tokyo flight for $225 roundtrip
• u/kateoclock’s Switzerland flights for sub-$300 roundtrip
• u/RunRyanRun3's Atlanta-Amsterdam flights for $400 roundtrip

(If you’ve been able to book a cheap flight recently give a shout in the comment section—I wanna celebrate with you!)

And now, after years of being asked “what’s your secret to finding cheap flights?” I finally got my shit together and compiled everything I know into a book out next week, Take More Vacations: How to Search Better, Book Cheaper, and Travel the World.

One of my goals in this book was to cut through the BS misconceptions that get parroted elsewhere as cheap flight advice, like “clear your cookies” or “book on Tuesdays at 1pm.”

Instead, the way I’ve been able to travel to places like Milan for $130 roundtrip and Japan for $169 roundtrip (and help millions of SCF members get cheap flights as well) is not through useless “hacks” but by changing the entire strategy of planning travel.

More than anything, my goal with the book is to help readers avoid the regret that so commonly plagues older folks: “I wish I’d traveled more when I had the chance.”

Among the myriad topics I get into in the book (and happy to discuss here!):

• How the way you’ve been searching for flights leads you to overpay (and how to do better)
• All the steps you can take even when you don’t have flexibility
• Why expensive fares are optional now that we’re in the Golden Age of Cheap Flights
• Why big cities get the most deals but small cities (think Dayton, Ohio or Cody, Wyoming) get the best deals
• How to take the perfect vacation, according to science
• The basics (when to book, where to book, etc.) and advanced tips (mistake fares, 24-hour rule, building your own layovers, etc.)
• Commonly believed myths, from searching in incognito to dressing nicely for an upgrade to flying being better back in the day
• Why cheap flights don’t just save you money, but lead to more and happier trips

Other current topics I’m glad to speak to if you’ve got questions:

• Europe travel for Americans this summer
• Vaccine passports fact & fiction
• Will fares go up as the pandemic wanes? (Spoiler: No! Don’t let them trick you into overpaying!)
• Mistake fares (like $63 roundtrip to Chile or $309 roundtrip to Morocco, both in the past year) or why airlines occasionally sell $202 roundtrip flights to Japan
• Whatever questions you’re curious about!

Proof I’m Scott: Hi!

Proof I’m a cheap flight expert: Recent media coverage from Good Morning America, NBC Nightly News, New York Times, Business Insider, and the Washington Post.

Love you all,

Scott

P.S. We’re hiring! Seriously like half my coworkers came via Reddit.

UPDATE #1: Chugging through answering as many questions as I can in loosely chronological order.

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