r/cheapflights

I'm a senior in highschool and only 18 but i have to pay for an emergency flight to san jose cali and need to fly out tmr... all the flights are absurd.. why can i book a cheaper flight to fucking puerto rico 😭😭. they are all over 450-500+ for cheap shit flights. at this point i don't care how i get there just want it to be 300 or below. give me ur flight tips on how i can possibly get the cheapest flight possible in any means! thanks pls help

We are planning our honeymoon for Sept 13-24, flying from SFO > EDI then LHR > SFO right now for two in economy, it's like $2,300 with Delta and $2,500 with the insurance.

Do we think prices will drop? I feel like they have only gone up.

Is Delta worth it? Or do I try to book with a different airline that could be cheaper? I am worried about the comfort and trying to book with a US airline in case the world ends, and we can't go, and I need to use the credit later.

Should I bite the bullet and pay it now before it keeps going up, or do I keep waiting?

Hi! I’m trying to find affordable return flights from Frankfurt to Colombo and back around late August. I’m flexible by a few days and also open to nearby airports or longer layovers if it saves money.

Does anyone know good routes, airlines, websites, or tricks for finding the cheapest flights on this route?

Flight in December2026 around the holiday.

Is there a good or preferred site for getting cheap flights?

Thank you in advance!

I'm trying to fly out the 29th and return on Jan 4th or 9th.The best I've found is $1,096

Best way to go from Brussel airport to Lomé with Brussel airlines and a stop in Ghana. From 10 - 15 June. Tips? Discounts?

Hello Everyone

I am trying to travel to the Middle East from Houston to visit my family that I haven’t seen in a while and because my father had an accident, I am checking all flights are super expensive. Any hack to get cheap flights? All flights are $1600+
I also have a 1 year old toddler which is making it more expensive 😭 I am a single mom so yeah I can’t leave him here 🥲

So I've been going down a rabbit hole with error fares for a while now and figured I'd share what I've learned because I keep seeing the same questions pop up here. Fair warning this got long so grab a coffee.

An error fare is when an airline or booking system accidentally prices a ticket way below what it should be. We're talking a €800 flight showing up for €79 kind of situation. It happens more than you'd think — currency conversion goes wrong, someone drops a zero during manual fare entry, an IT system has a moment — and suddenly there's a business class ticket to Tokyo for the price of a train to Brussels. They usually get fixed within a few hours, sometimes they last a day or two, occasionally longer. But you have to be fast.

The question everyone asks is whether they're actually legal to book and the answer is generally yes. EU rules basically say that if a price is displayed and you book it in good faith the airline has to honour it in most cases. The bigger airlines especially tend to just eat the cost because the alternative is cancelling thousands of bookings and dealing with the PR nightmare that comes with it. That said it's not guaranteed and I've heard of cases where airlines cancelled and just refunded everyone. But from what I've seen the majority do get honoured. The rule I personally use — if the price is crazy but not impossible just book it. €89 Brussels to New York? Book it immediately. €2 to anywhere in the world? That's probably a glitch that won't get honoured.

To give you an idea of what actually comes up — these are all real error fares from the past year that were bookable for real money. Brussels to New York return for €189 when the normal price sits around €800-1100. London to Bangkok return for €299 when it usually costs €650-900. Amsterdam to Tokyo return for €320 when normally you're paying €850 or more. Paris to LA return for €180 when the regular price is around €700-950. Each of these was live for a few hours before disappearing and some lasted longer — the New York one I think was up for almost two days which is unusually long for an error fare.

The hard part is finding them fast enough and honestly this is where most people struggle. By the time a deal gets shared in a WhatsApp group or someone posts it somewhere it's often already gone. What actually helps is being flexible with your dates because error fares almost never land on Christmas or peak summer dates. Having everything ready also makes a massive difference — passport details, card details, all of it sorted in advance so you can book in under 5 minutes when you find something.

The other thing I'd really stress is book first and research later. Most airlines let you cancel within 24 hours anyway so if you find something insane just book it and then figure out if it actually works for your schedule rather than sitting there checking your calendar while the price quietly disappears. Use a credit card if you can because it's way easier to deal with if something goes wrong. And don't book non-refundable hotels until the airline actually confirms the booking — learned that one the hard way.

That's pretty much everything I know about it. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has them. Also genuinely curious — what's the best error fare anyone here has actually managed to book? I feel like there are some good stories in this community.

I need to book a flight from socal to atlanta for the end of may and everything is so expensive.

In your experience, do flights go down days before? Are one way v. Round trip better?

Any pointers are appreciated. I'm on a work budget so can't splurge 🫠

Have you ever tried to meet someone from another city and wondered where the best place for both of you would actually be?

We ran into this problem ourselves. At first, we assumed the answer should simply be a city somewhere in the middle. But once we compared real travel options, it turned out that the most sensible meeting point was often somewhere completely different.

For example, Majorca might not look like the obvious choice on a map, but for two people starting in different cities, it can sometimes be faster and cheaper to reach than places that seem much more “central”.

We looked for a search engine where you enter two different starting points and it automatically finds a shared destination based on real travel time and cost, but we couldn’t find one that did exactly that.

Do you know this problem?

So two friends and I decided to build it ourselves for Europe.

The idea is simple: you enter two starting points, and the tool suggests the fairest places to meet. You can also decide how much travel time and price should matter in the result.

Would you use something like this?
Or is this too niche to be useful?

Feedback is very welcome.

Now that Spirit Airlines is no more. What is everyone doing for cheap flights?

Im planning on potentially using Avianca to fly to Guatemala but both on our way there and back to the US there is a stop at El Salvador with both layovers approximately one hour and 5 min, does anyone know if we need to go through immigration at El Salvador? Is an hour enough to make it to the connecting flight? Also since Avianca has these tickets with the stops included do they make sure that it’s enough time to get to the next Avianca gate?

I’m used to taking spirit and nonstop but unfortunately with the recent events, Spirit is no longer an option and all the nonstops are at outrageous pricing.

16 y/o American female. I want to travel and see Guatemala for the first time (going solo) and this is actually my first time flying on a plane and everything so I'm very nervous!! It's a very last-minute decision, but does anyone know any airlines with affordable plane tickets? I'm really stressing out!! so if anyone knows, I'd really appreciate it!
(Please be kind!)