Former flight attendant reveals her trick for booking cheap flights

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A former flight attendant and TikTok travel advisor, @hacks.travel, posted her number one tip for finding cheap flight fares online, in a video that has already garnered 2.4 million views. In the video, the social media star opens by saying, “Here’s one of the cheapest ways to plan your trip - and guess what, it’s super easy.” She then reveals her favourite booking tool for flights - not Skyscanner, Expedia or an individual airline website, but Google Flights. Selecting “one week” and “March”, the TikTok star says, “What this is going to do is it’s going to search all the flights in March to find you the cheapest option.” She demonstrates how the flight aggregator shows her various possible destinations for March on a map of North America, with options including LA, Chicago, Miami and Toronto at different starting prices. “But wouldn’t it give you those trips that are like 32 hours long?” commented one follower, while another added: “Might get a deal but will end up on low budget airline with three stops.” Others posted their own flight-finding tools, with one writing: “Doesn’t work.