5. Going (Formerly Scotts Cheap Flights): Best Website for Flight Deals
If you’re the kind of person who’s willing to go just about anywhere if the right deal pops up, give Going a shot. (Note: Going currently only offers deals from US airports).
Formerly known as Scott’s Cheap Flights, Going is an email subscription service that rounds up flight deals internationally and domestically within the United States. Most of their deals have between 40-90% off average airfare prices. These aren’t computer-automated results: Going has a full team of people scouring the web for deals everyday.
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You have two options when you sign up for the Going service: free, and paid. The “freemium” subscription means you can sign up to receive free emails about flight deals, but you’re limited to international economy deals from five origin airports (of your preference).
But if you sign up for the Premium or Elite membership, you’ll actually receive those same flight deals 30 minutes ahead of the free subscribers. With premium, you’ll also get emails about domestic flight prices, error fares (these happen when an airline or OTA accidentally lists a flight for cheaper than the actual fare), deals on premium and business class seats as well as award flight deals, bookable with points.
And these aren’t crappy routes on budget carriers—real people research the flight deals and they only send you the kind of flight deals they’d also send to their friends.
I highly recommend signing up for the free version and seeing if it’s something you enjoy. From there, try the two-week trial run of the paid subscription and see if anything interesting pops up!
Obviously you’re most likely to find a cheap flight if you live close to a major city hub, but you’ll be surprised by the flight results for less populated airports as well.