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Serra is our community travel deal guru. he/She has been posting some killer travel deals. I would just follow that account

Paying for flight deals is really unnecessary. They're selling you publicly available information that others are providing for free.

LOL, keep thinking that because it leaves more deals for the rest of us! Everything on Slickdeals is also "publicly available information" but you use it because it potentially saves you hours per day having to search every retail site individually (if that were even possible).

And while SD isn't a pay site, there is no free SD equivalent in the travel world. FlyerTalk is probably the closest but it isn't particularly user friendly and you'd better be prepared to monitor it hourly because the really good deals appear and disappear in a flash. The travel blogs (TPG, OMAAT, YMMV, etc.) each print some of the deals but usually only the ones that will be available for a while, usually days. Serra does a great job, but those postings are primarily mainstream, fleet-wide sales, not error fares or individual routing bargains or very-limited-availability opportunities. The pay sites (at least the good ones) have a team of people combing all the sites and email you immediately when they get a hit on your chosen airport(s). Different target audiences.

NO single site catches all of the deals so if you're smart you'll use a combination of sources (pay and/or free) to increase your odds.

I had no idea you could follow users. Do you get a ping every time they post, similar to a deal alert?

Like swimsoon said, you can setup location based alerts for deals on Secret Flying for free. You can also track routes on Google Flights for free and get notified of price drops. You can setup alerts for Flyertalk deal threads to get notified of new posts immediately. The flight deal blogs are always rushing to post deals as fast as possible because they want that site traffic. The only sites holding back deals are the ones that sell some sort of premium membership.


Flyertalk, Theflightdeal, Secretflying, Google Flights are really all you need.

Paying for flight deals is a sucker move. It's like paying for picks in sports betting.

Mfgibbins what flight deals did you buy this year that didn't make it to the travel blogs?

If you think Google Flights notifies you immediately you've never used Google Flights. You've likely missed the deal by the time (or day) the notification arrives.

I've subscribed to the sites you mentioned for years. And I've also tried different pay services and I've experienced the difference. Have you, or is this all theoretical knowledge on your part? Pay sites aren't perfect but they have their role. That's why I recommended a combination of sources (pay and/or free, as I said).

Which deals didn't make it to the travel blogs? Unknowable, because there are dozens and dozens of travel blogs. Do you review dozens of them every day? If not, then you don't know what each offers and there are definite differences between which and how many deals they post. If time has any value to you then in some circumstances it may be worth paying for a search engine to find them.

I fly Business Class exclusively and almost always internationally, so finding a deal can literally save me thousands (or more accurately, it will decide trip or no trip). Who performs that service best for BC deals, in your opinion? (Go ahead and Google it, I'll wait.) And I'll fly to anywhere internationally if I haven't been there before and the deal is cheap enough. Who performs the [these four airports]-to-[anywhere internationally] service the best, with immediate notifications?

And by the way, TheFlightDeal site you recommended also has a premium, pay version ("Receive first, business and premium economy only deals for about a quarter a day"). Fine site and I used to subscribe.

Your whole premise is this site helps you find deals before the free options, but you can't name one deal that this service helped you get? Not even one?