hi there in this video I want to look at the best way to find cheap flights I've
been travelling now for 27 years I left England in 1990 and I work and travel
mostly in Asia a little bit in Europe and also in America but mostly in Asia
even this year I've taken more than 20 flights so far so the number one place I
always go is to Skyscanner and I think they've been going about 10 years now so
there's some different ways you can use this and you can be like precise a
certain date or you can look at a range of dates like a whole month and you can
also just look at going if you don't know where you want to go or you just
want a cheap place then you can also do it that way so I'll show you the
different ways let's go on Skyscanner then this is the website Skyscanner.net
and i'm going to click here flights I'm in Phuket at the moment so I'm actually
gonna look at a flight that I need to take I need to leave here from my visa
I'm gonna put in Phuket and I need to go somewhere for my visa now let's say I
want to go to Kuala lumpur which is about the nearest place to here and
let's say I need to go on a specific date and that needs to be 10th of
December then I can do a search and I've
looked at one way here for the moment
and I can see here the cheapest one is $45 and that it's pretty good if it's
fairly near the day or actually even if it's not near the day but if it's a
very common route like from Phuket to Kuala Lumpur's fairly common then this
price will be fairly up to date or very up to date let's just
select that to check it's the current price and it is it's still 45 and that's
direct with AirAsia sometimes this will be out of date if the price is changing
quickly as it gets nearer to date it especially these bucket airlines or
these budget airlines they put the prices up as it gets near the date so
you do need to go and just double check it because this is looking at flights
from lots of different places it's not exactly live it might be a few hours
late so that's that let's go back to that search and let's say I want to come
back because I do actually need to go and come back to get my visa let's look
at return and I'll be returning on the same day I can do a search for that
and it will just give me the total price for going there and return now you
do have to take into account that these are budget airlines so you do have to add
some if you got check in luggage but it is a lot cheaper than Europe in Europe
it can get like 20 pounds sometimes 30 pounds for luggage but in Asia
and these budget airlines maybe from one country to another maybe 15 dollars
within the country I think less than $10 but you can find that out you might
have to go on the website to find that out so here I can see that I can come
back I can go there and come back for $70 if I go in the morning at 8 o'clock
and come back at 8 o'clock in the evening bit of a long day but maybe I'll
do something while I'm there or there's some other ones with less time between
them there's six hours between that one and one here 4 o'clock to 8 o'clock so
that's 4 hours and I can pay more if I want to do that so I'll make a choice
later but I do need to do that flight let's look at the next thing then let's
say we want to go there but we can go any time so I'll just choose a different
place let's say I'm in Phuket and I want to go to Singapore but I don't actually
mind when I go let's say I'm just going one way and I can put in a whole month
so maybe I'm going to go there in January but I'm flexible I don't need to
go a certain time and that's why I like this you've got some like Expedia where
you've got to put in the exact date and I think with Expedia you can't even put
plus or minus some days I'm not sure I quite often use travel trolley for long
journeys and that's even when I look on Skyscanner and they recommend travel
trolley as one of the best ones so I quite often use this for long
journeys Travel trolley and here you can put flexi dates but it's still only it's
plus or minus three days so a total of I think a total of five days
let's have a look here one two three four five six seven okay a total of
seven days so it's a total of a week and it will tell you the cheapest within
that week whereas Skyscanner it does a month so let's say Phuket to Singapore
in January and let's just search for that
so it's gone off to all these different airlines and different companies
like it'll check travel trolley or check Expedia and all those and it'll come up
with the best one and it's good that you can choose a whole month because if I'd
have chosen this week first to the seventh of January then I would have
thought well it's quite expensive you know this is the price to go to
Singapore but if you go the week after then here is $34 which is really
cheap and that's about the cheapest there's some others here thirty to forty
dollars so it's good that if you don't need to go on a certain time then
this helps you to avoid the holidays I expect people to be coming back from
Phuket to Singapore from their holiday and that's why it's gone up so it's good
to put in a whole month and to just see which is best
so that's doing it that way now there's another way you can do it and this is
say I'm in Phuket now and I don't mind where I go so it says here I can't
decide where I can go anywhere and let's say also I'm just going to go in
February and I don't mind I've got a holiday a week so maybe I want to come
back as well within that date I want to go and come back within
February and I want to just choose everywhere so let's do a search and this
isn't based on Asia this is any country I'm just using Asia because I'm in Asia
at the moment so I could if I like I could go to Malaysia $49 return
Singapore 70 Vietnam 97 Indonesia and Cambodia here so let's just look at a
couple of them let's say Vietnam and I can go direct to Ho Chi Minh okay I
didn't even know that so I can go from here to Ho Chi Minh and back from 97
dollars let's have a look at that if I click on that one
and this will give me the price to go and the price coming
back so I can just find one that suits say I want to go for a week
well it looks more expensive no about the same but if I go the beginning of
February looks like it gets more expensive towards the end and that might
be because of maybe they've got some holiday or maybe there's some might be
Chinese New Year maybe I'm not sure when that is this year but anyway so it looks
like I can go on the 2nd of February and maybe I want to go for a week I can come
back on the 9th and that cost me about a hundred and seven come back on the 11th
then that will cost me 51 plus 47 so that's just over a hundred hundred and
eight and I couldn't look at it like that so I can find the I think that looks
like the cheapest there 47 to go and 51 to come back so that's pretty good a
hundred dollars for a week's holiday for the flight and I have got to pay a bit
more for the baggage but actually for a week I could probably just take hand
luggage if I want so that's if you don't mind where you go and you're just
looking for a cheap place to go ho Chi Minh I've been there but a long long
time ago so it's some way that's a bit new to me and I can do that let's go
back to the previous results and you've just got some more choices here
Indonesia Cambodia and if I click on this like this Indonesia it will tell
me the different places so Jakarta Bali can go to Bali from 169 and to some
other places so that's using the everywhere that's using everywhere so
that's all about Skyscanner as I said I've been travelling for 27
years now I left in 1990 so I've made this blog and this YouTube channel
to really help people either traveling or working online and if people want to
do the same as me travel with different countries
I've worked online I've also worked offline in some different countries and
I've had a business in Asia so I really want to let people know what you can do
give them some incentive to be able to do this and also the practical
information if that helps you and interests you then please subscribe to my
channel if you've got any comments about cheap flights and getting cheap flights
in Asia or cheap flights in Europe and any other websites then please leave
those in the comments below if you've got any questions about flights about
working and traveling then please leave those also and I hope I can answer
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