Google flights Maxxing

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The video provides a practical, actionable tip for a common user pain point (finding flight deals) by leveraging free tools. The demonstration is clear and shows tangible benefits, making it highly shareable and useful.

Summary

This video demonstrates how to use browser extensions like Points Path, Leg Rooms Plus, and seats.aero with Google Flights to find award flight availability and details. It highlights how these tools can reveal information about points costs, seat configurations, and transfer options that are not immediately visible on Google Flights alone.

Structure

1Introduce Google Flights hack
2Install recommended extensions
3Search for flights with extensions
4Showcase extension features (points, seat maps)
5Compare free vs. pro versions of extensions

Product placement

Google Flights (ACTS - interface operated to search for flights, result is flight information, removing it would change what happens in the video) Points Path (ACTS - browser extension that adds frequent flyer points prices to Google Flights, removing it would change the information displayed, it is operated by being added to the browser) Legrooms+ (ACTS - browser extension that helps find the best flight with optimal legroom and cheapest price, removing it would change the information displayed, it is operated by being added to the browser) seats.aero (ACTS - browser extension that easily searches for award availability on Google Flights, removing it would change the information displayed, it is operated by being added to the browser)

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Google flights Maxxing FLIGHT HACK. DON'T KNOW ABOUT ONE. FLIGHTS HERE TO THIS LITTLE SQUARE WHERE IT SAYS SEARCH EXTENSIONS ADD POINTS PATH, LAG ROOMS PLUS AND SEATS DOT ARROW. MAKE SURE YOU'RE YOU'RE GONNA GET BLOWN AWAY. WITH WIND EFFECT. LET'S LOOK AT INDIANAPOLIS BUSINESS CLASS ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5TH. THEN AT YOUR RESULTS, ALL OF THIS INFORMATION JUST EMBEDDED RIGHT INTO GOOGLE FLIGHTS. LIKE LOOK AT THIS FLIGHT RIGHT HERE. THERE'S THE DOLLAR BUT UNDERNEATH IT IS SAYING, BOOK THIS WITH FOR 85,000 POINTS AND FOURTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS. THIS IS SEATS OVER HERE IS POINT PATH. AND WELL ACTUALLY WE FOUND SOMETHING DIFFERENT. IT'S GONNA BREAK HOW MUCH TIME IF YOU CLICK ON THAT, IT ACTUALLY POPS IT WE CAN BOOK FOR THIS MANY, ALASKA FOR THIS MANY, QANTAS FOR THIS MANY. AND THEN THIS HERE IS ACTUALLY TELLING YOU WHAT YOUR PLANES ARE. THIS IS LEG ROOMS PLUS RIGHT HERE. WELL WHAT IS THE A THREE EIGHTY ON LIKE IT WILL KICK YOU OVER TO SEAT MAPS. RIGHT AT IT CAN JUST TOGGLE BACK OVER RIGHT AND YOU'RE BACK INTO GOOGLE FLIGHTS. HOW AWESOME IS THAT? BOTH POINTS PATH AND SEATS AERO HAVE PRO VERSIONS A LOT MORE FEATURES, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE FREE VERSIONS. IS SEATS DOT AERO HAS CACHED AWARD SPACE FOR THE FREE VERSION FOR THE LIMITED AIRLINES HAS ALL LIVE SPACE. THAT'S WHY DISCREPANCY THERE.

Transcript

Here's a Google flight hack. I bet you don't know about one. Go to Google Flights. And then up here to this little square where it says search extensions. Add Points Path, Leg Rooms Plus, and seats.aero. Make sure you're you're gonna get blown away with wind effect. Let's look at Indianapolis to London in business class on Wednesday, August 5th. Then at your results, you'll actually see all of this information just embedded right into Google Flights. Like look at this flight right here. There's the dollar amount, but underneath it is saying, you could book this with Alaska miles for 85,000 points and $1400. This is seats.aero over here is Point Path. And well actually we found something different. It's gonna break how much time, how much time you're in first class, how much time you're in business. If you click on that, it actually pops it down and says we can book for this many, Alaska for this many, Qantas for this many. And then this here is actually telling you what your planes are. This is Leg Rooms Plus right here. Well, what is the A380 on BA like? It will kick you over to Seat Maps. Right at it. And then you can just toggle back over right here and you're back into Google Flights. How awesome is that? Both Points Path and seats.aero have pro versions, a lot more features, but they also have free versions. The biggest difference is seats.aero has cached award space for the free version for the limited airlines has all live space. That's why there's some discrepancy there.