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Flight Hack #2: Book multi-city

A few years back, when planning my visit to Lithuania, I tried to book a return flight to Vilnius from London, but prices were north of £100. However, I noticed that the outbound flight would only cost £14 and it was only the return leg that was too expensive. When I searched a bit more, I found that flying back from Riga (the capital of the neighbouring country, Latvia) on my original date I wanted to return was only £17 and the bus between the two cities only costs £10 for a 4-hour journey. In this example I saved more than £60 by exploring two cities instead of one, but the potential of this hack is far greater.

You don’t always have to explore multiple places, just use their airports for your return flights. In many places, especially within Europe, you can often reach multiple airports by taking a cheap train or a bus. You can look up multi-city options yourself, add nearby airports when you search or simply use the multi-city search tool of Google Flights.