The video from @frank.travel, an account named Frank Travel, runs 28 seconds and opens with a plain warning. “Do not book a flight until you know these three secrets,” the creator says, while text across the top of the screen reads “Never Book a Flight Before Knowing These 3 Tricks.” The first frames show a man with glasses speaking to the camera on a patio, and the rest of the clip cuts between him and short footage of airports, calendars, cash and laptops. Each secret gets about six seconds.
Secret number one is a day of the week. “So always book flights for Tuesdays, Wednesdays, or Saturdays,” he says. “These are usually the cheapest days to book any flights.” The footage shows a hand marking days on a paper calendar and a hand counting dollar bills, and his words appear on screen one at a time over the footage.
Secret number two is student pricing. “Always check to see which airlines give student discounts,” he says. “Sometimes these discounts can be 50% off the original price.” The graphic that goes with it shows a student in a graduation cap beside the word “discount” and a full price tag crossed out in red.
Secret number three is the one in his caption and hashtags. “Lastly, always use incognito mode when looking for tickets,” he says. “Flight booking websites track your activity and if you check certain tickets, often they increase prices because they know you’re gonna buy them.” The footage over this line shows a laptop with a private browsing window and a flight search results page. The video does not show a price changing between a normal window and a private one, so this is his explanation rather than a demonstration.
His caption sums up the clip as “3 secrets to save money” and promises to show “which days are cheapest, how to find student discounts, and why incognito mode can lower prices.”
Turkish Airlines, on its own student page, lists 20 percent off the base fare on domestic flights, 10 percent on flights departing from or arriving in Türkiye and 15 percent on international flights with a layover there. Taxes are excluded. Eligibility depends on age: ages 12 to 34 for international flights and ages 12 to 25 for domestic ones. To claim it, a traveler joins the airline’s loyalty program, submits proof of student status such as a student ID or certificate and waits about seven business days for approval. The status expires after one year, and the student must carry the original document to check in. Those figures are lower than the “sometimes 50%” in the video, which is one reason to read each airline’s own terms.
For a reader about to book a trip, the video’s list turns into a short checklist. Search the airline’s own site for a student or youth fare before paying the standard price, and have the proof of enrollment ready, since approval can take days. Check the fare in a private window and a normal window and compare the two, which tests his third secret on your own route. Book on one of his three days and compare it against the price on another day before assuming any weekday is always cheapest.
