How to find cheap flights: Google Flights, Skyscanner and other price comparison sites to travel this summer

The Summer Vacation they are just around the corner. However, some have been caught by the bull and still do not have planned your escapades. Therefore, they are waiting to find some last-minute bargain that suits their budget, figures that this year are lower due to the price increase which they have had to deal with. In this sense, some platforms can be your best ally for this, since automatically compare the price of the different companies (Vueling, Ryanair, Iberia, Air Europa, among others) and they provide you with the best alternative.

This is the case of Google Flights, Skyscanner and Airhopping. We explain how to use each of them.

Find cheap flights with Google Flights

First of all you should know that, whatever the platform you are going to use to search for cheap flightsit is always recommended to use the incognito mode to access it. On the other hand, it is also recommended that, in the case of finding a good offer, you make the buy directly on the company’s website.

Having said that, GoogleFlights It is one of the tools that can be used when looking for cheap flights. In this sense, a method of searching for offers recently went viral thanks to the dissemination of a TikTok user: Kayla Marby (@hacks.travel on TikTok), former flight attendant. As she herself explained in her video, the steps that must be followed to find authentic bargains are the following:

1. Access the web page. Write the departure city but, without entering the destination or the date. Hit the ‘Search’ button.

2. In said map that appears, we will go to the column on the left. In the dates section, we can select the ‘Flexible dates’ option.

3. Here you can choose a specific month and select time What do we want to spend at the destination?

In this way, we will be shown the cheapest round trip flights to different cities from the city of origin. Finally, we will have to indicate the destination that interests us to check the dates they offer.

Secondly, GoogleFlights offers the opportunity to activate alerts on the prices of the journeys. In this way, you will be able to analyze the evolution of your costs as well as be aware of whether there is a sudden reduction.

You will also be able to notice the erroneous rates or ‘glitch fares’: a trick to find cheap flights. As explained Scott Keyesflight expert and founder of the specialized portal Scott’s Cheaps Flights, some portals offer strikingly cheaper fares due to human errors – such as entering a discount or price incorrectly – or technological errors due to algorithms, among others.

Find cheap flights with Skyscanner

Something similar can be done with other of the star platforms for find cheap flights: skyscanner. As with the previous one, you only have to access its portal -remember, in incognito mode- and indicate the point of departure and destination. Then, the website will be indicated in a calendar the cheapest days and more expensive to travel. The cheapest prices will be colored green, intermediate prices will be orange, and those that make a big difference will be red.

At the same time, you will be able to check the schedules offered by each company and filter at the same time according to your needs: stopovers, prices, schedules, among other things.

Find cheap flights with Airhopping

With the help of airhopping website You can visit several destinations for the price of one. In this way, in his Homepage offers you the opportunity to choose directly cheap flights from a destination or also cheap prices from certain cities in Spain.

At the same time, there is the option of ride your own tour and go introducing destinations according to the prices that appear. In this way, you control the cost of each stopover.

What day of the week are the flights cheaper?

The days on which the flights are cheapest are Tuesdaybecause during that day update the prices of the companies. For this reason, prices change on Wednesday due to parity pricing (a kind of auction in which each buyer sets the price that he can pay or can expect to pay for imported goods).

At what times are the flights cheaper?

In this sense, we must look at the functioning of supply and demand. At what time are there more users buying flights? When they have free time, which is usually in the afternoon and at night. Therefore, the best time to search for flights is early morningwhen very few people are in the business of planning a trip.

Which month are the flights cheaper?

As for the months, it is important escape the summer periods. Something similar to what happens with the hours. During the months of June, July and August people are looking for trips. As in December, for the Christmas holidays. However, in January and September you are more likely to find something cheaper.