@flightswaubrey, whose account shows the name aubrey, opens her video with text on screen that reads “don’t book your flight yet! (do it like this).” She then introduces herself: “As a flight attendant for about three years. I just recently quit my job.” She says she is sharing the top four hacks she gives to friends and family “so that we can all travel cheap now that I’m not in the industry anymore.” The video is marked as a paid partnership, and one of her four tips involves an app she names in the video.
Her first hack is about the day you buy, not the day you fly. “You’re always gonna want to book your flight on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday,” she says. “Not take off on those days, but book those flights on those days.” Her second tip goes with it: book very early in the morning or very late at night. “Usually 3 to 4 o’clock in the morning is peak,” she says, and then admits, “I don’t really know why.”
The third hack is a flight deals app that sends automatic notifications when a price drops. The frames show a phone screen with a map of destinations and prices listed beside each city, and she describes scrolling the map to find random places she wants to go and setting up notifications. Because the post is a paid partnership, this tip is her sponsored recommendation, and this article does not name or link the app.
Her fourth hack concerns how you search. She says to use incognito mode or a VPN when booking from a browser or in a big city, because “airlines will literally look at your demographic and where you live or where you’re booking from and up those prices because they think that you can afford more.” She calls it “super not cool, but I guess that’s how it works.” The video does not show an example of a price changing, and she gives no source for the claim, so it stands as her account of how pricing works.
Her tips are simple to test. Pick a booking session on one of her days and compare it against the price on another day. Set price drop alerts for the route you want so you are told when the fare moves, instead of checking by hand. To test her fourth point, open the same search in a normal window and in a private window and compare the fares side by side, which costs nothing and answers the question for your own route. She says she does not know why 3 to 4 in the morning works, so treat that one as a claim to check on your own route.
