What are "the blogs"?
 

Hey guys!, I really enjoying coming out here and sharing deals left and right. more common than not, I notice people mentioning a fare and then saying something along the lines "its already on the blogs" or "havent seen it" what do ya'll refer to?

Theflightdeal.com for one is a great blog.

They are pages which copy deals posted on here and try to make money out of them as they get remunerated when you click on their pages or take a commission when you book through the OTA they refer to.

Posting links to their pages is not allowed here as links to websites with a commercial objective violate the FT rules.

This thread is not about a mileage run, so it will be moved/closed.

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OP check out the travel buzz thread under travel & dining

Actually, the appropriate forum is External Miles and Points Resources.

The fare deal and the flight deal are the 2 best (only?) fare-centric blogs. I am RSS subbed to both. Airfare watchdog also has a great tool to follow fares.

When a really good fare is discovered, it gets coverage on the big travel blogs (OMAAT, VFTW, MMS, etc.) so sometimes "the blogs" refers to those.

Was once true. Now a days, it feels like the better deals appear on the blogs well before someone gets around to posting them here - after having seen them on the blogs. Sometimes, a good blog deal never appears here at all. If they are copying these, I wonder where they're getting them from....

They definitely are not stealing deals from flyertalk. I set up IF notifications on my phone for all new blog post deals and new MR posts. 90% of the time a deal posted on a website will not appear here. And the ones that do show up here I think are often times sourced from one of those sites. The MR forum is still good for people who want to do true mileage runs, but I think the deals on the websites are more geared toward deals that the average consumer would use.

this is what I follow:

http://www.theflightdeal.com/
http://www.secretflying.com/usa-deals/
http://www.fly4free.com/
http://www.airfarespot.com/
http://www.dansdeals.com/ (airfare is a small focus of this one)