I built Detour Flights because I travel like a backpacker — flexible dates, flexible airports, and very flexible routes. Leave from the cheapest airport, find the cheapest multi-country path, and catch insane flight drops before they vanish.
three little ways to fly cheaper
When I'm ready to move, I'll fly out of wherever's cheapest. If that means a $15 bus to a different country — even better. More exploring, more money for the next trip!
Going from Thailand to Japan? As a backpacker you have time but not money. You'd rather stop in the Philippines or Vietnam if it saves you hundreds — and see more world.
The craziest deals — 50% off, mistake fares, sudden drops — are always locked behind a paywall on other sites. I wanted to spot them for free. So I built it.
from my travel diary
two flights, two problems, two little tools ~Luang Prabang is gorgeous — until you need to get to Seattle in a hurry. Every route home was priced $900 or more, and the clock was ticking. I refused to believe those were my only options.
One airport at a time — Laos, then Vietnam, then the rest of Southeast Asia. After way too many tabs, I found it: an overnight sleeper bus to Bangkok, then an affordable flight home.
One click does the whole search. Fares climb the more you check a route — that's dynamic pricing reacting to your clicks. Reverse Flights looks once, with no cookies and nothing tracking you, so your hunting never costs you extra.
Try Reverse Flights →It became my accidental home base. Beyond the mango sticky rice and thai iced tea, Bangkok is a hub with insanely cheap connections to nearly anywhere — flying through it again and again kept saving me real money.
New friend, new plan: I met an Aussie and decided to follow him home to Perth. The direct flight from Vietnam was outrageous — so I went through Kuala Lumpur, a massive hub, and turned it into three days in Malaysia plus a cheaper fare. Win, win, win.
Two boxes — where you are, where you're headed. I'll dig up the detour routes airlines never surface, the ones where an extra stop actually drops the price, and hand you the cheapest way there with a built-in stop to see somewhere new.
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