Scott's Cheap Flights is a website service that sends emails to users about cheap airline tickets. It was founded by Scott Keyes and grew due to word of mouth, particularly on Reddit. As of July 1, 2017 it has more than 730,000 subscribers. It has been cited as a quality means by which to find cheap airline tickets, and Scott has been quoted as an authority on the subject.
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Concept
Scott's Cheap Flights works by monitoring airfare and alerting subscribers when abnormally cheap fares pop up. One type of deal that is listed through the service is called the "fat-finger discount," which refers to discounts that are available because a typographical error was made in the price. Two other deals are due to conversion errors and dated technology. Scott's Cheap Flights serves the following regions: the United States and Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, the UK and Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand.
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History
Scott's Cheap Flights was created by Scott Keyes in late 2013 as a personal hobby to alert his friends when cheap fares arose. It gained prominence in 2015 thanks to a Business Insider report in 2015, which lead to his email newsletter going from 300 subscribers to 3000. After the increase in subscribers, Keyes transformed the email list from a hobby to a business. This service launched on August 23, 2015, and after three months, he had generated in excess of $6000. He would later earn a total of $24,376 from 1,687. As of November 2016, Scott had earned $963,234.48 and had 233,660 subscribers (of which 29,639 of them are paid). As of April 2017, the subscriber base has grown to more than 424,000. According to Scott, he only spent $500 on marketing. He cited the success of his business being caused by word-of-mouth, particularly through Reddit. Scott explains that another part of his success is airlines' reluctance to create bad public relations with customers. As such, they honor these tickets instead of potentially being on the wrong end of a social media campaign. He claims that airlines refuse to honor about "one in 10."
Reception
Scott Keyes and his website have been the subject of media coverage, including an interview with The Independent. The website has also been covered in a number of travel blogs, including The Huffington Post, which called it "one of the best" newsletters for finding cheap fares. Scott Keyes was quoted by Travel and Leisure in the United Express Flight 3411 incident, claiming that the average price of United Airlines tickets had dropped following this incident. The Washington Post writer Jonnelle Marte included Scott's Cheap Flights in her list of the best deal tracking tools. She specifically cited it as a good choice if a traveler cared more about travel than the destination. Another The Washington Post writer, Jen Ruiz, included it in her list of ways she gets cheap travel deals. She claimed that the newsletter worked better than any flight tracker app she had tried. A writer for the website Cartography & Cloture compared Scott's Cheap Flights with Airfare Watchdogs. In it, they note that both services offered a lot of the same deals, but each had deals the other did not. They also noted that Scott's Cheap Flights had a better social media presence and that both their tweets and emails were easier to understand than Airfare Watchdogs. They suggested that casual fliers or people who tend to fly domestically may prefer Airfare Watchdogs, but that more hardcore fliers or international fliers may prefer Scott's Cheap Flights.
References
External links
- US Scott's Cheap Flights site
- Scott's Cheap Flights on Indie Hackers
Source of article : Wikipedia
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