75 Flights Later, Here’s What Works

Ep.146 We've booked 75 flights on 34 airlines. All in under 3 years. We've learned a lot and we share what actually works. Whether you fly often or just once a year, our strategies will help you avoid the mistakes that cost time, money, and peace of mind. Join Our Community: https://findingginamarie.com/join Our Travel Gear: https://findingginamarie.com/gear Briggs & Riley Collections: https://link.findingginamarie.com/brzdx 💥 Go to https://findingGinaMarie.com/join to join our free travel forum and learn more about our Gelato Levels! 💥 SUBSCRIBE: https://youtube.com/FindingGinaMarie/... 🎥 How we avoided a huge REGRET (and how we NAMED OUR CHANNEL):    • How We Avoided a HUGE REGRET and Why Our T...   📝 Why our channel is called "Finding Gina Marie" https://findingginamarie.com/articles... LINKS 🤓 CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE FOR TIPS, TRAVEL GUIDES, AND MORE: https://findingginamarie.com/tips 🎥 Ep.136 What’s New for 2025: Our Complete Travel and Budget Planning Breakdown    • What’s New for 2025: Our Complete Travel a...   🎥 Ep.132 The Reality of Full-Time Travel: How We Plan Trips    • The Reality of Full-Time Travel: How We Pl...   🎥 Ep.131 Costly mistakes to avoid when booking travel in 2025    • Costly mistakes to avoid when booking trav...   🎥 Ep.119 Avoid Airline Carry-On Fees | What We Pack for World Travel 2025    • From 16kg to 10kg! How We Beat Airline Car...   🎥 Ep.81 What we pack in 2024:    • WHAT WE PACK in 2024 as Full-Time Traveler...   😍 Using our affiliate links below helps us to bring you videos from around the world at no cost to you. Thank you very much if you choose to use them! 🧳 Explore All Our Travel Gear: https://findingginamarie.com/gear 🧳 Explore Briggs & Riley Collections: https://link.findingginamarie.com/brzdx 👗 Judy's wool clothes (Wool&): https://link.findingginamarie.com/Wom... 👕 Kevin's wool clothes (Wool& Prince): https://link.findingginamarie.com/Men... 📩 Traveling Mailbox (Mail forwarding service to wherever we travel): https://link.findingginamarie.com/tra... 💳Earn 60,000 bonus points with Chase Sapphire Reserve: https://www.referyourchasecard.com/19... 🧾 Our packing list: https://findingginamarie.com/articles... 🎵 Music from Epidemic Sound: https://share.epidemicsound.com/747rgk 23andMe: https://refer.23andme.com/s/judy49 Ancestry: https://refer.ancestry.com/judy43 Chapters: 00:00 - Start 01:05 - Our travel philosophy 02:06 - Saving money on airplane seats 03:22 - We book one-way flights 04:09 - Sharing a travel email address 04:38 - Sharing documents on the cloud 05:02 - Using our Travel Planner tool 05:22 - Start with big picture planning 06:03 - Accommodations first, flights last 07:09 - Staying flexible to make connections 07:42 - Cashflow is critical 08:57 - How we find flights 10:05 - How we pick our seats 10:52 - Avoiding airline gotchas 11:35 - Avoiding checked bags 11:53 - More ways to save money 12:47 - When things go wrong 14:02 - Chase Travel aren’t travel agents 14:52 - When we use points for travel 15:07 - Why we use budget airlines 16:08 - Beware of bad airlines 16:47 - Full-time travel changes everything 17:37 - When we use Google Flights Finding Gina Marie is where we share our lives as full-time travelers and the connections we make along the way. ✈️ FOLLOW US 🦋 Bluesky: https://KevinHoctor.bsky.social 🦋 Bluesky: https://JudyHoctor.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@KevinHoctor Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@JudyHoctor ✅ FOLLOW FINDING GINA MARIE Website: https://findingGinaMarie.com YouTube:    / findingginamarie   Podcast RSS feed: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1967301.rss 📸 Instagram:   / findingginamarie   🦋 Bluesky: https://findingginamarie.bsky.social 📹 VIDEO EQUIPMENT Primary Camera: Sony FX30 Primary Microphone: Sony ECM-B10 B-Roll Camera: DJI Osmo Pocket 3 B-Roll Microphone: DJI Mic 2 B-Roll Camera: iPhone 15 Pro Editing: Final Cut Pro X on a 16” M1 Max MacBook Pro Key Light: ZHIYUN MOLUS X100 Bi-Color 100W COB Video Light Diffuser: ZHIYUN Quick Release Mini Softbox To see all our camera gear, visit https://findingginamarie.com/gear #findingGinaMarie #worldtraveler #worldtravel #livingthedream #slowtravel #digitalnomad #digitalnomadlife #europetravel #retireearly#retireearlyandtravel