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Trying to book a cheap flight can be demoralizing. You find a perfect nonstop flight that's miraculously in your price range, but while you take a day to think it over, the fare increases. Or, you book what seems to be a once-in-a-lifetime fare only to realize you arrive at your destination two days later after three layovers and an overnight in an airport.

It's all too easy to give up, book a significantly more expensive flight, and cut your losses. But as any seasoned traveler knows, when you give in, your wallet takes a hit.

There are people who've made it their career to find cheap flights and beat the system, and Scott Keyes, co-owner of Scott's Cheap Flights, is one of them. Keyes' team of flight experts spend their days deal hunting so you don't have to. Whenever they find a killer deal (think an average of $550 in savings per ticket booked), they send their newsletter subscribers an email.

Keyes, who got hooked on deal hunting after once finding a $130 roundtrip ticket to Milan, is all about saving money on airfare. Here are his personal tips for planning travel.

Everyone says they want cheap flights, but Keyes says that considering the way most people go about planning their trip, "it's not surprising that it ends up resulting in not very good fares."

A typical person's booking process, he says, is: Figure out where you want to go, come up with travel dates, and then look at tickets. Keyes turns this strategy on its head by first looking at what destinations are offering cheap tickets and picking dates based on when there are low fares. "By doing that, rather than trying to pigeonhole the exact city and dates, you're much more likely to get a deal," he said.

Keyes says if there's one thing the travel industry doesn't want you to know, it's that, "Almost all advertised fares are frankly pretty garbage and you can do yourself a service by ignoring them." Why? Because the truly good fares sell and market themselves.

For example, Keyes says airlines will advertise flights to Europe for $600 to $800, but the real deals are the $400 fares that his team sees pop up fairly regularly.

When Keyes knows he wants to go to a certain destination, he'll start watching flights early, monitor prices, and purchase when the ticket price drops. He says that the theory that you should wait until the last minute to book flights because airlines will drop prices to fill the plane, is completely untrue. With business travelers booking last minute, airlines will actually boost fares when the departure date looms.

When his team found a ticket from the U.S. to Japan for $170 roundtrip, Keyes – and practically everyone on the Scott's Cheap Flights team – jumped on it.

This sort of deal is what Keyes calls "the holy grail of the cheap flight world" – they're mistake fares, or prices that airlines publish on accident. Finds like this are only sent to Scott's Cheap Flights' premium members. Premium members pay $39 a year for access to these mistake fares, deals for peak seasons and holidays, coveted flights to Hawaii and Alaska, and early review of the deals regular members see.

On April 18 the premium membership fee is increasing from $39 to $49 a year, but since Keyes says, "Members never see a price increase," deal hunters can sign up at the lower price and maintain the $39 a year cost until they cancel their membership.

Keyes takes full advantage of the 24-hour free cancellation window when booking flights. Thanks to strict regulations by the Department of Transportation, any flight brought to or from the U.S. (on either domestic or foreign airlines) can be canceled without penalty, for at least 24 hours after the reservation is made as long as the ticket is booked at least one week prior to the flight's departure.

"So let's say that the $130 flight to Milan pops up and I'm trying to get ahold of my wife. Because it's a mistake fare there's a good chance that the flight won't be around for three hours," he explained. So rather than waiting around and hoping the airline doesn't correct their mistake, he'll book "a few different travel dates with the understanding that you've bought yourself 24 hours of time to make a decision."

Keyes warns the 24-hour rule only applies to flights booked directly with the airline or with certain booking engines – like Priceline.

"I don't have a favorite airline and purposely so," Keyes said, since his true loyalty is to cheap flights, no matter what airline they're on.

But that doesn't mean he doesn't get into frequent flier miles. In fact, this summer, he plans to travel domestically to take full advantage of his wife's Southwest Companion Pass. Anytime she has a ticket on Southwest, he can fly for free along with his daughter, who's still a lap child.

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Jet Airways will have the best possible app, website and IT systems and services among all Indian carriers without losing the human touch, its CEO Sanjiv Kapoor said on Friday.

"Human interaction cannot be fully replaced by technology -- it must always be there as a backup, especially when things go wrong (during irregular operations, etc)," he stated in an email to employees.

The airline will announce its aircraft order soon after it receives its air operator certificate (AOC), Kapoor noted.

On May 5, Jet Airways conducted its test flight to and from Hyderabad in a step towards obtaining the AOC.

The airline in its old avatar was owned by Naresh Goyal and had operated its last flight on April 17, 2019. The Jalan-Kalrock Consortium is currently the promoter of Jet Airways.

Kapoor's email, which has been accessed by PTI, said the airline will "very soon conduct" its proving flight, the last step before obtaining the AOC.

Proving flights are similar to commercial flight with officials of aviation regulator DGCA, executives and flight crew of the carrier concerned on board.

After obtaining the AOC, Jet Airways plans to restart commercial flights in the July-September quarter.

Kapoor said, "?The Top 3 priorities for any CEO should be to 1. Create the right culture, 2. Hire the best people, treat them well, and pay them fairly and on-time, 3. Help develop the best strategy. In that order."

The CEO, in his email, enlisted 10 guiding principles for employees.

The tenth principle said that Jet Airways is a people-focused airline for the digital age.

"?We will have the best app, website, and IT systems and services possible. However, we will not give up the human touch -- there will always be the option to speak with a human. We are in the people and customer business," Kapoor elaborated.

The first principle stated that as an airline, safety is paramount and therefore, there will be absolutely no room for short-cuts or compromises.

The second principle stated that common sense, values and principles will guide Jet Airways and not some "rigid" rulebook.

"At all levels, people will be empowered to make decisions by values and common sense; values such as respect, fairness, empathy, transparency, decency and hard work," Kapoor elaborated.

The third principle mentioned that the company's culture will be based on love, passion and mutual respect and not fear.

Open, transparent and regular communication between senior management and other employees will be the fourth principle, according to Kapoor.

Political views should be kept outside the office, the fifth principle said.

There should be no "chalta hai (anything goes)" attitude, the sixth principle noted.

The seventh principle elaborated on the fact that professionalism must be maintained in "our dealings and our appearances, at work or outside of work".

The eighth principle stated that the results and output of each employee will be the final adjudicator for efforts and contribution, and not face-time.

"A desire to 'Think Different' while being customer-driven" will be the company's ninth guiding principle, Kapoor mentioned.

(Only the headline and picture of this report may have been reworked by the Business Standard staff; the rest of the content is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)

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