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In 2024, there was a lot to celebrate as far as cheap flights were concerned.
Throughout the year, we sent more than 3,000 alerts letting members know about amazing deals and mistake fares in the Going app, from airports big and small to destinations big and small. Among them, you’ll find:
- Super-popular routes like NYC to Paris, Rome, and Berlin
- Dallas to Fiji (one of our picks for Where To Go in 2025)
- And several US cities to Costa Rica for more than 70% off the average price
Our members leveled up their points-and-miles knowledge, and we sent them a slew of deals—like all over the US to Japan, in either economy or business class—bookable with points so they could put that knowledge to good use. And when it came to mistake fares, travelers were gifted with opportunities to travel to six different destinations on three different continents with rock-bottom fares seemingly too good to be true.
It turns out: Amazing deals were all around us. Here is a sampling of some of the best cheap flight deals that we found in 2024. Read our guide for more—and cheers to all of the deals you’ll find in the Going app in 2025!
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Best Going mistake fare
Ireland – From $114 roundtrip
Regular price: $800 roundtrip
Departure cities: Chicago, Minneapolis
Travel period: June, September–October 2024
This was a fun one. In May 2024, we sent out a mistake fare from Chicago to Dublin or Cork for $221 roundtrip for travel in October. Because the cheap flight overlords apparently decided that wasn’t good enough for our Premium and Elite members, we sent another mistake fare less than two hours later. This one had flights departing from both Minneapolis and Chicago for as low as $114 roundtrip. And, because October was just too far out to reap the benefits of this delicious fare, the updated deal included availability in June as well.
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Best Going economy-class deal
Tokyo – $436 roundtrip
Regular price: $1,200 roundtrip
Departure cities: Los Angeles
Travel period: December 2024–February 2025
There’s nothing like an end-of-year deal to make you wish you were spending Christmas in Kyoto or New Year’s Eve in Tokyo rather than heading home for the holidays (just don’t tell your mom we said so). Thanks to this deal—the lowest nonstop price to Japan from the mainland US with a full-service carrier that we’ve seen since 2020—it was possible. Even if you departed from San Francisco, you could’ve gotten there for just $587 roundtrip.
And this deal was no anomaly. It was a big year for cheap flights to Japan. In May, we sent another deal from LAX to Tokyo for $595 nonstop roundtrip, and in August we sent a deal from half a dozen other airports across the US to Tokyo for $660 roundtrip.
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Best Going premium-class deal
Buenos Aires – $894 roundtrip in business class
Regular price: $2,500 roundtrip
Departure cities: Denver
Travel period: August 2024–January 2025 (excluding holidays), March–May 2025
We didn’t technically call this a mistake fare, but it was uncannily good and very well could have been one. With lie-flat seats on the long-haul leg, this was as good of a chance as any to fly in style down to South America.
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Best Going points deal
Japan – 40,000–60,000 points roundtrip
Regular price: 90,000–120,000 points roundtrip (can vary by program)
Departure cities: Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle, and more than 80 other US airports
Travel period: October 2024–March 2025
In August, we sent out a dreamy points deal to our Premium and Elite members with wide-open availability on Delta’s award space to Tokyo. Unlike most other deals, this one needed to be booked through Delta as a roundtrip itinerary and couldn’t be purchased as a one-way at the same price.
One of Delta's quirks is that their cheapest award tickets book into basic economy, which means they have more restrictions for seat selection, don't include checked bags, and aren't free to cancel, unlike their competitors. However, you could upgrade to main cabin for as little as 10,000 points to get those things included.
This is just a sampling of all of the wonderful flight deals that we sent out in 2024. Check out our guide for more!
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Book your summer 2025 trip now!
Why do we highlight our best deals year after year? Aside from the fact that we like to toot our own horn, we like to help our members find amazing deals a whole lot more.
While it’d be nice to buy a cheap ticket today and hop on a flight to Svalbard to see the northern lights tomorrow, that’s unfortunately not the way the gingerbread cookie crumbles.
The not-so-secret secret to finding the cheapest flights: Book in the opposite season. Want to go somewhere tomorrow? You should’ve been looking at tickets in July. Hoping for the cheapest fares for your European getaway in summer 2025? You should be looking and booking right about now! (Hoping to stick around the lower 48 over the summer? You have a bit of time ‘til you need to start looking.)
The reason why: We’re currently deep in the Goldilocks Window for summer travel, the time frame when cheap flights are most likely to pop up. For domestic travel, that’s 1–3 months ahead of your travel dates; for international travel, it’s 2–8 months. However, if you’re hoping to travel during a peak time, like at the height of summer or over New Year’s, you should add a few months to that—more like 3–5 months for domestic and 4–10 months for international.
Read more: How booking in the opposite season leads to the cheapest fares (and more happiness!)
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