A group of friends got the surprise of a lifetime that landed them across the world for an unbelievably low cost.
Stacey Leasca got a text from her editor, Tanna Saunders that read, "We booked $202 flights to Japan, round trip," Travel and Leisure reported. Thinking it was a joke, Leasca opened her email and saw the same deal highlighted on the Scott's Cheap Flight newsletter.
"I had just got home from an errand when I saw the deal from Scott's and panic grabbed my computer to see if it was still up," Saunders says. "My boyfriend and travel companion was about to start a meeting so I just told him, 'I'm about to book us tickets to Japan next year if you want to go, it's too cheap to not.' I played around with the dates and before his meeting finished, I had secured us two American Airlines tickets to Japan at the end of February 2022."
The amazing deal included two round-trip tickets that totaled almost $500 exactly with insurance. This is about the same price Saunders would pay to visit his family who lives outside of Lubbock, Texas.
"Even if the borders don't end up reopening," he said, "With the insurance, the deal was totally worth it. I'm still in shock."
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Scott Keyes, founder of Scott's Cheap Flights and author of “Take More Vacations”, tells “Travel + Leisure,” "It's not like buying a gallon of milk where the price yesterday is about the price today, which is about the price tomorrow. With airfare, we'll see flights that are $800 round trip on Monday and $300 round trip on Tuesday. And, on Wednesday it's $1,300 round trip and it's the exact same flight."
He continued, "Not only is it incredibly volatile, but it also doesn't fit a lot of our sort of mental models of how things are supposed to be priced."
Keyes says that this deal is likely to happen again.
"I have no idea when the next amazing deal is going to happen," he says, "but it will. I am 100% certain about that."
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