I ditched Skyscanner for website with cheaper flights & £400 price-drop refunds

I love finding a bargain flight, this is how I have marked 50 countries as a travel editor, packing hottest land tickets for the most popular destinations.

But to do that, you must buy, and stop going directly to Skyscanner as if it were the only flight website in the city.

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I have realized that there is an easy, and crucially cheaper way, to reserve air trips … Google Flights.

The software often finds cheaper rates than the other main reserve sites and can reimburse it up to £ 400 if flight prices fall before it goes.

So, if you are caught in Frilly Britain and think about booking a sunny vacation, read this first and discover how you can save.

It is also quite easy, just write “London Gatwick returns to Seville “and they rise directly to the search engine without having to go through the faff to look again through a third party.

Not only show the cheapest rates, not leaving any airline as some third -party websites do, but also offer a lot of other information.

A small symbol reveals whether the hand luggage is included or not, with a line through the latter (if you are looking for a cheap rate, wait to see this a lot, but I have it covered on how to pack slightly here too).

He even tells him how much leg space he will get in his economic seat. So, if the rates look similar, why not go for the one with two additional inches?

It also makes it much easier to compare flight times, so you can see how extra you can expect to pay without getting up at dawn.

Other extras, even if the seats have USB points of sale, flight entertainment and if Wifi is included or available, they are also part of it.

You can even see your flight emissions, for those who are on carbon footprints.

And although I will often order my flights for the ‘best’ option, it can include all kinds of limits depending on what I desperately need.

If you are in the long term, you can choose if you want direct or indirect flights, as well as how many bags you want to take and even what airports you want to fly.

This may not seem like a big problem, but some airports make the connections much easier. See the Changi airport and Doha airport to see the best places (and avoid San Francisco airport, whatever you do).

But the best hack, if it still does not plan to reserve a flight, is the “tracking prices” button.

Add all your information, mainly destination and date, and keep it informed when flight prices go down.

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Even without flight tracking, Google has the data to tell you if the month you are looking for is cheaper than usual or not.

For example, when looking for London flights to Seville next Month, he told me: “prices are currently low = £ 39 cheaper than usual for your search.”

It will even give difficult prices: “The less expensive flights for similar trips generally cost between £ 50 and £ 130”.

Therefore, you don’t have to worry about being cheated if you are not in a hurry to travel.

When using Google Flights, a flight back to New York in February began from £ 439, the cheapest of other reserve sites was £ 449.

To warn, this was when it went through a holiday reserves website such as Lastminute.com or Booking.com, going directly through the airline was a similar price.

But well, that extra ten will be useful for an airport breakfast.