Finding the Best Deal on Flights with Zach Resnick

All the Hacks with Chris Hutchins

Chris Hutchins

Business, Education, Investing, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Self-improvement

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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#156: Flight deals expert Zach Resnick and Chris share every way they know to save money booking flights, including hidden city ticketing, VPN arbitrage, travel agents, buddy passes, and more. They also cover their favorite award search tools and share insights into the secret world of buying and selling points and miles. Zach Resnick is the founder of FlyFlat, a luxury concierge platform that offers great deals on long-haul, international, business and first class tickets. Link to Full Show Notes: https://allthehacks.com/zach-resnick-flight-deals Partner Deals Fabric: Affordable term life insurance for you and your family Trade Coffee: Free bag of the best coffee to upgrade your morning routine Copilot: Free 2 months access to my favorite personal finance app with code HACKS2 MasterClass: Learn from the world's best with 15% off DeleteMe: 20% off removing your personal info from the web For all the deals, discounts and promo codes from our partners, go to: allthehacks.com/deals Resources Mentioned Zach Resnick: Email | Twitter FlyFlat: $250 off your first ticket | Deals Page | Example Points Optimization Plan The Points Guy: Battle of the credit card travel portals Flight Award Search Tools: seats.aero PointsYeah AwardLogic Point.me AwardCat 10xTravel Acquired Podcast: Costco: The Complete History and Strategy Hidden City Ticketing: Skiplagged Credit Cards: The Platinum Card® by American Express | Chase Sapphire Reserve® CardPointers: 30% off the app that helps you earn more cash back, points, and miles (50% off for ATH Members) All the Hacks: All the Hacks Membership Follow or Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Email for questions, hacks, deals, feedback: [email protected] Full Show Notes (02:28) Biggest Mistakes People Make with Flight Deals (05:48) Where to Start Your Flight Search (08:30) Best Timeline to Book Flights (09:30) Travel Portals (16:37) The Waterfall Approach to Save Money on Travel (19:08) Flight Award Search Tools (26:22) FlyFlat Services (29:05) Brokering Points (41:52) What If You Don’t Have Points/Miles but Find Great Deals? (42:46) Using Gift Cards & Travel Credits (44:00) Hidden City Ticketing (53:04) Why You Should Read the Contract of Carriage (54:10) VPN Arbitrage (58:13) Consolidators (1:01:47) Travel Agents & IATA Numbers (1:04:42) Airline Business Programs (1:08:24) Buddy Passes (1:16:13) Utilizing Credit Cards Connect with All the Hacks All the Hacks: Newsletter | Website | Membership | Email Chris Hutchins: Twitter | Instagram | Website | LinkedIn Editor’s Note: The content on this page is accurate as of the posting date; however, some of our partner offers may have expired. Opinions expressed here are the author's alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, hotel, airline, or other entity. This content has not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of the entities included within the post. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of all the hacks a show about upgrading your life money and travel I'm your host Chris Hutchins and today we're going to run through all the different ways that you can save money when booking flights. Now I think we might skip a few of the basics like checking nearby airports or looking at different
0:18.1	dates but we are going to cover everything else.
0:21.7	That includes points including a rundown of our favorite tools to search
0:24.9	for availability, Hidden City ticketing, VPN arbitrage, Consolidator Fair's Buddy Passes,
0:31.0	and so much more, including a peak behind the scenes of the secret world of buying and selling points and miles
0:37.2	And here to join me for this conversation is Zach Resnick who is an absolute expert at finding the best flight deals.
0:44.3	He's the founder of Fly Flat, an amazing site focused on finding discount premium cabin
0:48.9	flights.
0:49.9	I am pretty sure that most of you will end up saving money from this episode and if so please
0:53.9	reach out and let me know how much so let's get into it right after this.
0:59.8	When it comes to managing my money there is one app I check almost every day and it's
1:04.3	co-pilot, our sponsor today. It's one of my all-time favorite apps. It's on my home
1:08.8	screen and it makes it so seamless and easy to track your spending and manage your entire financial
1:13.8	picture and just this week they launched an importer for all your old mint data
1:18.1	which is amazing because I just imported 9,9,917 transactions dating back to 2012, which means I now have over
1:27.2	a decade of all of my financial data in one place.
1:30.9	Now I've tried so many apps for tracking spending.
1:33.4	Last year I evaluated over a dozen of them, but Co-Pilot is the only one I've kept using.
1:38.5	You can link your accounts at over 10,000 institutions and their expense categorization is the best I've used with custom
1:45.3	Amazon and Venmo integrations that make it even better.
1:48.4	You can completely design your spending categories and subcategories and easily set up rules to assign transactions
1:54.3	to them automatically.
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