Anyone who’s into travel has probably heard of flight deal finders that find deals and send automated emails with lower-than-usual fares.
I’ve dabbled with a few throughout the years and found options that helped me get back to California via Singapore from Rome (what a whirlwind that was!), to more simple options that will get me from my home airport to Europe this summer for less.
How does the Dollar Flight Club (sponsor of this post) measure up to the others I’ve tried (P.S: my readers can try the club for just $1 today)? Here’s everything to know:
How Dollar Flight Club Works
Dollar Flight Club’s MO is to save members $500+ on flights via email alerts. When you sign up for Dollar Flight Club you’ll input your home airport and and email address. Dollar Flight Club combs deals throughout the day and sends you alerts via email or SMS whenever they come across one that matches.
How many deals you get, what class of service they’re in, and how many departure airports and dates you can choose depends on your membership level:
Free Membership
The free membership will allow you to choose one departure airport, and you’ll receive periodic deals when there’s a match. However, you won’t get quite as many deals as Premium and Premium+ members receive.
I fly out of a rather small local airport and always have to have a layover to fly internationally, so I like to input any of the major airports I could fly out of. This opens me up to way more deals, which leads me to the Premium benefits.
Premium
The premium membership allows you to choose up to 4 airports as well as enjoying both domestic and international deals. In the example image above, I received an alert about deals from San Francisco to Amsterdam, which is a fantastic jumping off point to explore or fly elsewhere in Europe, for a pretty wide range of dates from fall through spring.
They include instructions on where to find the deal, with links to Google flights and skyscanner. True to their email, I found plenty of deals for the prices they mentioned, and less than $500 from Northern California to Europe is a steal.
The Premium membership costs $69 per year (billed annually) and offers a 14-day $1 trial (note that it will automatically charge your card after the 14 days is through).
Premium+
What about economy plus and business class deals? We love flying business class, but it can obviously be super pricey, so when there’s a good deal, it’s really a great deal.
The Premium+ membership offers everything the premium does, but includes economy plus and business class deals. It costs $169/year and also offers a discounted two week trial.
My Experience with Dollar Flight Club
To test out the service, I put in some major US airports, including ones that I fly out of myself, like JFK, SFO, Los Angeles, and Seattle.
I started receiving deals immediately. So far, I’ve been averaging five deals per day, both domestic and international.
You can also note your dream destinations and airlines, and if you’d prefer to receive the alerts via text rather than email (or both!).
I like that this service has some helpful explanations on where to find the deals and how to book them with their tips. In the example above, they have detailed directions to help you find the exact deal they’ve found.
I also think it’s promising that I have so many deals to Europe in particular in my inbox, considering that those deals have been harder and harder to find lately. So far, I’m pretty impressed with what they have found, and interestingly, these are entirely different deals, than some of the other services I use.
Is Dollar Flight Club Worth It?
Dollar Flight Club can be a great tool if you are open to being serendipitous with your destinations, because as with any deal finder, it’s going to be every deal under the sun. That said, let’s say you want to go to Europe for Christmas markets, flying into Amsterdam, London, or Paris could all make sense. From there it’s easy to get onward to wherever you’re trying to go via train, and as they say, a stopover in Paris is always a good idea.
Dollar Flight Club in particular is pretty cheap at $69 for Premium as far as deal finders go (FareDrop, which is another tool I use and one that interestingly has completely different deals, is $100 for their similar membership plan).
Plus, you can try before you buy with a $1 introductory 14 day membership. Just remember that you’ll be in for an entire year’s membership after that trial period if you don’t cancel.
We travel often, and I am subscribed to several flight deal finding services. I typically find one deal per year per service that I take advantage of. This means I’m saving anywhere from $500 for me as an individual to $1500 plus for my family. So I consider these services a fantastic tool.
*Some links in this post are affiliate links that support us at no extra cost to you when you purchase through them. Thank you to Dollar Flight Club or sponsoring this post. My review of the service and deals I received are my own.
Molly G says
Going (formerly Scott’s cheap flights) is cheaper for their premium service ($49 a year, and when you threaten to quit, they give you the next year for $25) and you can pick up to 10 airports to track deals from. I know this is sponsored by Dollar Flight Club, that this seems like a big omission…
Kristin Addis says
I haven’t tried that one so it wasn’t an intentional omission! Thanks for letting us know.
Scott says
DON’T DO IT! On the 14th day of my 14-day trial for of the Premium+ membership (a membership I was unaware that I signed up for) I was charged $99.
They would not refund my money and told me they were a small business and needed the money. I also run a small business and care for my customers. BAD way to run a business unless your goal is grab subscription money without giving any value.
I would highly suggest not giving them anything.
Ravi says
Dollar flight club is completely worthless. They are a typical organization who simply accept your money and provide no service at all. There are numerous travel services you can join to get a service. In fact you can easily do that yourself without joining this useless club
Gerald Nonaka says
I am enjoying the comedic value of the flights they select. Recently, they had a post for a LAX to Havana flight on Viva Aerobus Airlines. The connection time in Monterrey is only 20 hours. The connection time for the second flight is much shorter – 13 hours (and there is this little issue for US Citizens that travel is banned to Cuba.) They actually posted this “deal” twice. Today’s post was for LAX to Buenos Aires on Avianca. I figured that you would connect in Bogota. The outbound flight duration is 20:45. A little long, but acceptable. Here is the itinerary of the trip to EZE: Los Angeles to San Salvador to Panama City to Medellin to Buenos Aires. The return trip takes you from Buenos Aires to Guayaquil (I always wanted to visit there) to San Jose to San Salvador to Los Angeles. Any chance of missing a connection? It might be easier to take a bus. I am enjoying torturing the staff at Dollar Flight Club. They actually responded to my emails about their selections.