Meet the man who quit his job and has made a fortune finding you cheap holidays from his own BEDROOM
The 30-year-old Londoner, who has an eye for numbers, currently has about 21,000 paid up members - worth about £750,000
A YOUNG Londoner is quids in after he escaped the rat race and spent his days working on a laptop in his bedroom finding cheap holidays for others.
Jack Sheldon describes himself as a "flight hacker" and has saved Brits about £5million on airfares, all while building a booming company from any spot he could find.
The 30-year-old, who has an eye for numbers, currently has about 21,000 paid-up members on .
If all these premium members pay the £35 annual fee for travel deals, the project that was born in cafes and his room has raked in about £750,000 in membership fees in the past two years.
He is "not yet" a millionaire, but describes his life as "comfortable" - with the ability to move around the world at ease.
Now the travel fan works wherever he fancies visiting, and his growing team of six are free to set up their own makeshift offices in Paris, Hawaii or even Antarctica - if they can get a good deal to fly there.
He told the Sun Online: "I spent most of my 20s in London working. I was always wanting to see the world but flights was always the biggest barrier.
"I could rent a cheap hostel and find cheap food, but airfares were always the biggest barrier.
"Being a bit of a numbers guy myself I just got into it.
"It's just a matter of the right time to book rather than the right place to book.
"I was following prices and I would notice these fluctuations and I would start finding the deals that were available.
"After a while I just started noticing how a lot of my friends were very interested in booking deals.
"I decided why not try to start it as a newsletter."
After sharing the tips for free with his pals he rapidly gained more subscribers, as hundreds of eager travellers began to sign up to get the offers every day.
The former business development worker set up premium memberships and officially set up the "club" in September 2016.
He scours websites looking for errors in fares and patterns which lead to drops in fares - one of the best he has found was an £18 return from London to Belize.
The full-time deal hunter spends his days sending out emails packed full of cheap holiday options.
Initially from Texas, the geoscience major counts London as a "home away from home" and picked the UK as the place to build his business as "the citizens love to get out there and see the world".
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With his huge success Sheldon could have bought a number of luxury items but said: "I've never really had an urge for the finer things, that's why I'm into cheap travel.
"My lifestyle hasn't changed but getting freedom was the only thing I have really craved."
Jack's Flight Club has 300,000 people signed up to the free newsletter, and as of early January 2018 had 21,000 people as premium members, although a spokeswoman for the businessman added that is "at last count, though the number is shifting daily".
HOW TO SPOT AN ERROR FARE
ERROR fares - when airlines and booking websites accidentally list flights at rock-bottom prices are often hard to spot. But here are some tips to spotting them.
- Do a broad search on a flight comparison tool like SkyScanner or Google flights. Look for fares from one airport to your destination of choice and select an entire month. It will be easy to spot if there are any really low prices.
- Look at flights where the departure airport is different from the return.
- Sign up to the to get alerted about error fares.
- Search forums like SecretFlying.com, Flynous.com and FlyerTalk.com and see if you can crack the secret code.
- Wait...once you find an error fare, you'll need to see if the airline or booking website will honour it.
Last year Jack shared his tips on how to find error fares, he said: "Do broad searches using tools like SkyScanner and Google Flights."
"For example, check for fares from Birmingham to all of South America for the month of August and see if anything really low appears."
"Another method is to make the departure and return airport different (this is called an open-jaw route)."
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