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Proven strategies to save hundreds on flights. Learn when to book, which tools to use, and the secret tricks experienced nomads swear by.
Flight costs can make or break your nomad budget. The difference between booking smart and booking lazy can easily be $500+ per trip. After years of nomad travel and analyzing thousands of flight deals on NomadFast, here are the strategies that actually work.
This is the single most impactful tip. Flying on a Tuesday or Wednesday is consistently 20-40% cheaper than Friday or Sunday flights. If you can shift your travel by even 2-3 days, the savings are significant.
Pro tip: Use Google Flights' date grid view to see prices across an entire month at a glance.
The "sweet spot" for booking international flights is:
Avoid booking more than 6 months ahead -- prices are usually higher because airlines haven't released their promotional fares yet.
Not all flight search engines show the same prices. Here is what works:
Set price alerts on routes you care about. Prices fluctuate daily, and alerts catch the dips.
Flying into a secondary airport can save 30-50%. Examples:
A round-trip ticket is not always cheapest. Sometimes booking:
...saves 20-30%. This is especially true for routes between Asia and Europe, where budget carriers compete on one-way prices.
If you have a credit card that earns travel points:
Within Southeast Asia, budget airlines are game-changers:
Book directly on airline websites (not aggregators) for the lowest prices. Sign up for their newsletters -- flash sales happen monthly.
Sometimes the cheapest flight is no flight:
On NomadFast, we track the cheapest flights from 5 major hubs (Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore, London, New York) to all 50 nomad cities. Check flight deals for your destination, or browse all routes on the city pages.
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