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Flight websites

www.airfarewatchdog.com
www.kayak.com
www.priceline.com

Any better ones out there? Looking for London on November 6th to 8th.

www.expedia.com

In my shopping over here, I've actually found that the best deals are on the airlines websites themselves

Go to the website that I created, and use the booking engine that I worked on with a team of developers.

http://www.thetravelauthority.com/

http://www.travelzoo.com/ !!

almost every flight i've found that was the cheapest and had the best selection was orbitz.

no matter how many complex and tricky ways I try to get breaks on plane tickets, the price is always the cheapest through Travelocity. Priceline, Expedia, Orbitz, Kayak, Bing..... I've tried them all. Some look cheaper at first, but then you'll see added fees pop up right before the last step to purchase the tickets... when the price inevitably is at most $1 cheaper than Travelocity.

i always find that dealing with the airlines directly and doing a little research on their discount policy always saves me more than the search engines.

Cheers everybody. Means a lot.

By the way, we have some winners.

www.asaptickets.com
www.cheapflights.com

There is no best website. Sometimes you'll find that one website might have an 'Expedia Special Deal' or the like, in essence where that site have bought a job lot of flights from the carrier at a discount and are passing that on to customers. That'll separate them from the rest but that could be any website and unless you trawl every single one you aren't going to know about it, if it even exists!

Most online travel agents just source tickets from the GDS, essentially the online reservation system the airline subscribes to Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo, Worldspan etc...

I find that for travelling within the US it makes most sense and is easiest to book directly with the airline. When changes to flight schedules occur and you need an involuntary reschedule it can be a hell of a lot easier to work with the airline than it can with the morons at Expedia, Travelocity etc. who are really just monkeys and know jack all about ticketing. That's not to say the airline's personnel are much better but you at least take one level of complications out of the equation.

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Originally posted by fbgdavidson There is no best website. Sometimes you'll find that one website might have an 'Expedia Special Deal' or the like, in essence where that site have bought a job lot of flights from the carrier at a discount and are passing that on to customers. That'll separate them from the rest but that could be any website and unless you trawl every single one you aren't going to know about it, if it even exists!

Yes, all travel agencies receive special deals from carriers, not only Airlines, but Cruise lines, Hotels, and special vacation packages. The thing to do for cheap deals would be to just contact a travel agent, but it probably won't have a deal for exactly what you want. If you are a registered travel agent, you can probably get deals booking as an agent. That's why I can get really good deals, but I can't get anyone else good deals.

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Most online travel agents just source tickets from the GDS, essentially the online reservation system the airline subscribes to Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo, Worldspan etc...

Exactly. The booking engine on the website that I posted is written in Java and receives GDS information from a source called Farelogix. All the travel agents in our company directly work with the GDS and have certain rates with the ticket price, but will charge you booking fees and even service fees for particular airlines. No matter who you use (Orbitz, Expedia, etc) you will get hit with service fees.

dammit i read fight websites...i was intrigued

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Originally posted by DjWhooCares dammit i read fight websites...i was intrigued

same here.

i'm a fan of farecast.com as well

i bought through flightnetwork.com

to london too

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Originally posted by ziptnf Go to the website that I created, and use the booking engine that I worked on with a team of developers. http://www.thetravelauthority.com/

Ahaha I drive by that place almost every day. On an unrelated note: Do you know who Figure (Josh) is? He's close with Mendel and Tye.


Also, if anyone hasn't said so yet: Bing. srsly.

Unless you're around southern indiana, you don't drive by the headquarters, probably just one of the stores. You know we have like 50 stores in like 13 states

www.itasoftware.com is another good website

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Originally posted by fbgdavidson There is no best website. Sometimes you'll find that one website might have an 'Expedia Special Deal' or the like, in essence where that site have bought a job lot of flights from the carrier at a discount and are passing that on to customers. That'll separate them from the rest but that could be any website and unless you trawl every single one you aren't going to know about it, if it even exists! Most online travel agents just source tickets from the GDS, essentially the online reservation system the airline subscribes to Sabre, Amadeus, Galileo, Worldspan etc... I find that for travelling within the US it makes most sense and is easiest to book directly with the airline. When changes to flight schedules occur and you need an involuntary reschedule it can be a hell of a lot easier to work with the airline than it can with the morons at Expedia, Travelocity etc. who are really just monkeys and know jack all about ticketing. That's not to say the airline's personnel are much better but you at least take one level of complications out of the equation.

Figured that out by searching all of these. It varies, and the best way to find cheap ones is just to constantly research all of them.

Cheers, everyone!

i like www.yapta.com it sends you notifications of fare changes.

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Originally posted by ziptnf Unless you're around southern indiana, you don't drive by the headquarters, probably just one of the stores. You know we have like 50 stores in like 13 states

I go to IUS... is it around there? I usually see the one on Bardstown Rd the most.

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Originally posted by tctitan i like www.yapta.com it sends you notifications of fare changes.

orbitz automatically sends you a refund if someone buys the fare lower than you after you purchase it. talk about no worries if the price goes down after you buy it.

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Originally posted by tubularbills orbitz automatically sends you a refund if someone buys the fare lower than you after you purchase it. talk about no worries if the price goes down after you buy it.

Hardly. If you read through the T&Cs and know anything about ticketing the chances of getting a refund are exceptionally remote.

That person needs to book through Orbitz for the exact same itinerary (in both directions) but also in the same booking class. That isn't just coach/business/first but the sub-booking class of that cabin. As the price of the ticket is determined by the booking class of that ticket it is unbelievably unlikely that someone will end up with the same booking class but have paid a different price. OK, so in some cases it is possible but they usually apply for different city pairs so that rules out the Orbitz guarantee.

The thing is a gimmick. At a guess I'd say your chance of getting a refund from Orbitz are less than 0.01%.

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Originally posted by Banora I go to IUS... is it around there? I usually see the one on Bardstown Rd the most.

That's the closest one to my house, I live just a little bit past the expressway near Bashford Manor. The headquarters is right across the bridge in southern indiana, we get the best view for Thunder

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