Want Great Airfare Deals? Follow The Flight Deal

Do you know about The Flight Deal? If not, you should! To give a quick overview, The Flight Deal is a crew of very capable individuals who are extremely talented at finding low fares to various destinations. They post these fares regularly on their website, which makes it a great resource for finding which airlines and destinations are publishing good fares. Sometimes the fares they find are extremely low – so low that they inspire some of us to book a vacation we didn’t otherwise plan to take.

If you have a destination in mind (Europe/Caribbean/etc), their website breaks down the deals by city. I know I’ve booked $150 round-trip tickets to Chicago or $99 each way tickets from New York to Los Angeles. When a fare war starts between airlines, they’ll usually be the first to tell you!

I typically follow them on Twitter where they’ll Tweet a sort of “deal of the hour” every hour or so, occasionally breaking the hourly cycle if something really good comes up. I’ll retweet the deals once in a while, but I recommend you follow The Flight Deal on Twitter yourself. (And while you’re at it, follow me at TheMilesProfess).

Here are a few deals I’ve seen them post this week:

• $700 Delta fares from many cities in the US to Spain (including West Coast)
• $190 American Airlines fares from New York to Chicago
• $327 American Airlines fare from New York to Barbados

Using Miles for Good Deals on Flights

Is there a way to use miles that makes good flight deals even cheaper? The Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite MasterCard offers a sign-up bonus of 40,000 miles after spending $3,000 within 3 months of account opening. These 40,000 miles can be redeemed as a $440 credit for any travel expense as a statement credit, making these pretty much the easiest miles to use. In addition, it earns 2 points per dollar spent on all spending. This happens to be one of my favorite credit cards and I frequently recommend it as the simplest miles to use. I do have an affiliate link that days me commission, but if you found or think you will find a great airfare from The Flight Deal and are interested in the card, I think it’s only fair to send the commission their way for all their hard work and deals they provide.

(And, in case you were wondering, this is not paid advertising by The Flight Deal… I just have a very high opinion of what they do!)