Secret Flight Club Cheap Flights

Our interest: we earn a commission if you subscribe through the link on this page. It costs you nothing. We have left in everything we found that counts against it, including the renewal terms, because that is the part people get caught by.

Secret Flight Club sends flight deals by email for £36 a year — about £3 a month — after a seven-day free trial. If one alert saves you £60 on a single fare, it has paid for itself twice, and that is a reasonable bet for someone with flexible dates.

It is also admirably clear about what it is not. Its own words: “Secret Flight Club finds and shares the deal, but we do not sell the flight.” You book with the airline. More bluntly, in the terms: “SecretFlightClub.com are strictly an advertising and marketing company.”

The company behind it is Secret Marketing Group Limited, number 12627422, registered at 167–169 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PF, incorporated 27 May 2020 and active. It traded as Travel Circus Group Limited until 1 May 2024.

What you pay, and when the money actually leaves

There is one UK tier and no monthly option. The “£3 per month” you see on the homepage is the annual £36 divided by twelve, not a monthly plan you can stop in March.

The homepage calls the trial “no up front payment”. The terms describe something slightly different: “We will pre authorize payment of your membership fee… This may show as pending on your bank statement and will hold funds”, and anyone without the funds available “will be declined the trial period”. So nothing is taken, but £36 is reserved on your card from day one.

What the subscription buys, from its own list: international flight deals, European weekend deals, error fares, 8 to 12 deal newsletters a week, business fares, peak-travel fares, deals from UK airports, and a hotel-deal membership it values at £34. The FAQ describes the volume differently — “often daily, although the number varies” — so treat 8 to 12 as the ceiling rather than a promise.

The renewal terms, which are the most important thing here

If you read one section, read this one. Four clauses, all quoted from the site’s own terms, combine into something you need to diary.

One. “For first year subscriptions that go past the 7 day free trial, we cannot offer a refund if not cancelled before 00.01 am on the morning after the trial ends on day 8… Payments will be taken without notification.”

Two. “We do not issue notification of your membership renewing annually as we provide the service daily during working days.” No reminder email, by design.

Three. “We offer a no hassle free cancellation up to 7 days prior to your annual renewal… following renewal, if not cancelled we are unable to cancel any previous renewals or refund any previous years renewals.”

Four. “Please note that unsubscribing to the flight deal alerts does not cancel your membership. This must be done via our secure ‘My Account’ page.”

Put together: you must cancel through the account page, at least a week before an anniversary you will not be reminded of, or you are charged £36 again with no refund. The refund policy is explicit on all three points — automatic renewals are “non-refundable”, a post-trial charge gets no refund, and “we do not offer prorated refunds”.

That sits awkwardly beside the marketing. “FREE CANCELLATION” is listed as a membership benefit and the site says it is “free to cancel at any time”, while clause 17.3 restricts free cancellation to more than seven days before renewal. Both statements are on the same website.

There is also a clause we have not seen elsewhere: “Any customers/members joining and cancelling membership within the free cancellation period will and can be blacklisted and prevented from joining at Secret Flight Club management’s discretion without explanation or reason.” Cancelling in the trial is within your rights, and it may cost you the ability to rejoin later.

What to do about it: put a calendar reminder 14 days before the anniversary of the day your trial ended, and cancel through My Account rather than by unsubscribing from the emails.

It is not a travel company, and that changes your protection

Secret Flight Club does not hold ATOL and is not an ABTA member, and it does not claim to be either. It is registered at Companies House under SIC code 63110 — data processing and hosting — not travel.

It passes the check to you, in writing: “We check our advertisers hold all the relevant ATOL, ABTA and bonding where it is relevant to their model. However not all holidays and flights shown… feature bonding… Please check with the operator before booking that they hold the relevant bonding.” And on liability: “We accept no liability for any bookings made with any of our advertisers or the flights we promote.”

That is honest, and it is also the right way round for a deal-alert service — you are buying information, not a holiday. But it means the protection on your trip comes entirely from whoever you book with, so the practical advice is the old advice: book direct with the airline where you can, pay by credit card, and buy travel insurance at the same time as the flight rather than later.

One flat-footed line in the terms gives away how little of this is tailored to the UK: “even though the secret deals are often less than $32, please still ensure you take the usual precautions”. Dollars, on the page selling a sterling membership.

What an alert is actually worth

Error fares and mistake fares are real, and they are genuinely hard to find yourself. The service’s own caveats about them are fair:

“Rates are correct at the time we send emails… however flight prices change rapidly and we cannot guarantee rate remain available after publication for any amount of time.” And: “Some fares remain available for several days, while mistake fares and particularly low flight prices can disappear much sooner.”

There is a practical limitation in how the deals arrive, too: “The link may open a sample search showing one available combination of dates and airports. You can adjust the search to suit your plans, although changing the dates, route or number of passengers may change the price.” In other words, the advertised price exists for a specific combination, and your dates may not be it.

So the honest version of the value proposition is this: you are paying £36 for a stream of leads, most of which will not suit you, in the hope that two or three a year do. If your dates and your destination are both fixed, that hit rate will be poor and a fare alert from the airline itself may serve you better. If you can fly in February instead of April, or to Lisbon instead of Madrid, it is a much better buy.

On coverage, the claim is broad: deals “from airports across the UK, Ireland, Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand”, and the pricing box promises “DEALS FROM ALL UK AIRPORTS — Yes, all UK airports”. We could not verify that. No airport list is published, and the public feed we could see is labelled only “UK | IRELAND”. If you fly from a small regional airport, treat the trial as the test.

The savings claims do not hold still

The UK page is consistent, claiming an average saving of “£143+”. The US version of the same site, however, gives four different averages: US$196+, US$228, US$163 and US$169 per return flight.

Four numbers for one statistic means at most one of them is current. The methodology is described only as a comparison of “average fares for routes vs what our technology and flight deal experts find”, with no baseline, no sample size and no date range. We cannot check any version of it, so we would not lean on the £143 either.

Two more claims we could not stand behind. The “100,000+ members” figure is unaudited and unverifiable from outside. And the trademark cited in the terms as UK00004209765 may well be registered, but the Intellectual Property Office served a security check when we tried to look it up and we did not work around it, so we are reporting it as the company’s claim rather than a confirmed fact.

The terms themselves were “Last updated 5th March 2024” and contain no price at all. The £36 figure lives only in the marketing copy, which means the contract you agree to does not state what you are agreeing to pay.

Getting hold of them

There is no phone number. We looked across the homepage, the contact page, the about page and the team page and found none — no landline, no mobile, no click-to-call.

Support is one email address, members@secretflightclub.com, with the stated turnaround “During business days we usually respond within 24 hours”. No opening hours are published, and no UK trading address beyond the registered office in the terms.

Two limits are set out on the contact page itself. “We cannot issue cancellations or refunds via this email” — cancelling must go through My Account. And “we are unable due to the large amount of members, respond to individual flight deal requests”, so do not expect to ask for a route.

For a service costing £36 a year that is defensible. For a renewal dispute, an email address and no phone number is a thin channel, which is another reason to cancel early rather than argue later.

Figures were taken from each provider's own published terms on 8 October 2026. Variable rates can change at any time — confirm the current rate with the provider before applying.