Tag: save points
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Does Bad Weather Affect Flight Prices? New Data From Chicago O’Hare’s Snowstorm
Bad weather across the U.S. has caused more than 12,000 flight delays this week — with Chicago O’Hare International Airport hit especially hard. Travelers are wondering: Has the snowstorm impacted flight prices at all? Sky Key analyzed real booking data to answer that question. How We Analyzed Flight Prices We reviewed: Why O’Hare?Because it’s one…
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Sky Key Saved Me Money. Now What?
When your flight prices drop after booking, Sky Key gets you savings. What happens next depends on the type of tickets you booked. I booked a non-refundable ticket When Sky Key gets you savings on non-refundable airline tickets, your savings come back as credits. These credits can be used to offset the cost of your…
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How to Save Money On Non-Refundable Flights
Most people think you can only get money back on refundable flights. However, you can actually save/get back money even on non-refundable flights- most major airlines in the United States allow this. What is a non-refundable flight? It’s easier to answer this by asking “what is a refundable flight”? A refundable flight allows you to…
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Airline Pricing- Behind the Scenes
This morning, I want to share a little insight as to what is going on behind the scenes regarding airlines ticket prices. As you may or may not know, airline ticket fares fluctuate based on supply and demand. If a flight fills up as expected or ahead of schedule fares may increase. On the other…
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The tale of two travelers, who saves more money?
Let’s compare two travelers to see who saves more money, we’ll call them Person A (The Points & Miles Guru) and Person B (The Smart Business Owner). Both are business owners who travel 3x per month and both spend about $350 per flight. Person A spends hundreds of hours researching how to try and “beat” the airlines and hotels…
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How To Pick The Best Seat On Your Next Flight
In this post we are going explore airline seating configurations on the major US airlines. Seating layouts often play a crucial role for me in determining not only which airline I book for each trip, but also which airplane I book. In other words, sometimes the aircraft type determines my airline choice. This is an especially important…
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Insanely Good Tips For Booking Your Next Flight
Do you remember the last time you booked a flight? If so, how did you feel booking it? If your last experience was anything like the flight I booked yesterday to El Paso, it was terrible. Almost as terrible as filing taxes, mandatory HR trainings, or receiving GenAi marketing materials. Why are these things so…
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Can I Get A Refund If My Flight Price Goes Down?
Picture this: You wake up to a beautiful Friday morning in NYC. You are pumped- your best friends from college are flying in to watch Aaron Judge and the Yankees play the Royals to get to the World Series. As a Yankees fan, you barely remember what the World Series is like but you do…
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Booking Flights With Points and Miles
There are lots of guides out there that go through the best way to redeem miles and points depending on which airline or credit card program you are looking at. In this post I want to talk specifically about why you should not book flights using flexible points currencies like Chase Ultimate Rewards or American Express Membership…
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The Best Way To Save Money On Flights
How do you usually buy your plane ticket? If you’re anything like me, you book your plane ticket and then fly out on the departure date. I never thought twice because this is how everyone does it. However, there was a huge component I was missing that no one pays attention to: “after I buy my…