Most of the time I make a thread, its to ask a question or advise. I realize that I take more than I give to this forum, so before I start I just want to say THANK YOU, c0r, for always being friendly and kind enough to help.

Here's my question: Basically I want to take a vacation to a major city. I don't really care where, as I'm pretty sure I can party down anywhere in the world, as long as its a known hot spot. As far as dates go I'm very flexible. So I know there are these super cheap flight deals every once in a while, where you can get wicked low rates to certain cities on certain dates.

Is there any website where I can browse all the special deals for any destination or dates?

c0r version: Want to take vacation. Where, doesn't matter. When, doesn't matter. Flight rate - MATTERS. How to search?

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Also , random question - but do most people here use travel agents or online sites? Normally I find that half the time one is cheaper and half the time the other - but the difference in price is a LOT, sometime double. Have no clue why?

My assumption from the lack of response is that these kinds of sites are not very well known or don't exist - which indicates there is a great business opportunity here! Anyone know how to make a website? I'll put down the money if you do the work!

I typically use kayak.com for flights in north america. Dont bother scoring a 'deal' theyre all fucking expensive. A flight from Toronto to Montreal, which is a 1 hour flight goes for $250. I can get a flight between Breslau and Oslo, a two hour flight for $120.

Flying in North America is a joke, and I've yet to figure out why.

It wouldnt hurt at all if you talked to a travel agent. In fact, it'd be a good idea to do so and tell them what you wrote here; 'I want to go to a major city on the cheap, I dont care when or where $XXX.XX is my budget.'

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the internet has kinda make travel agents redundant. But in NA, it just doesn't happen. I mean even standby costs 100 + with those passes you get from staff.

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try to fly into hub cities that makes for cheaper flights as they have more traffic which makes the overall costs go down sometimes.

I just looked at flights to Canada from closest major airport (Zürich, Switzerland) and then another one that is an hour further away (Frankfurt, Germany).

Same destination dropped from 950 euros to 540 euros. Not bad for having to drive a little farther to the airport.

Chose the Explorer section (hidden a bit) of KayaK

http://www.kayak.com/explore/

select direct from where you are, and it gives you an idea how much it costs to go anywhere for a given month.

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Checkout JetBlue (random deals), Southwest (cheap in general), and searches on Kayak.

The KLM website often has some pretty great international deals. The flight times will of course not always be ideal, but their prices are pretty good.

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I still don't understand how people don't know about cheap travel? all it takes is doing your own damn homework. go to orbitz, travelocity, expedia, etc...and click and compare. pic thursday thru sunday or monday thru thursday. compare again. check same dates with different airports. compare again. try three days versus four days. compare again. check against southwest. compare again

if you just spend the time to do it yourself, you'll really find what you're looking for.

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Originally posted by tubularbills I still don't understand how people don't know about cheap travel? all it takes is doing your own damn homework. go to orbitz, travelocity, expedia, etc...and click and compare. pic thursday thru sunday or monday thru thursday. compare again. check same dates with different airports. compare again. try three days versus four days. compare again. check against southwest. compare again if you just spend the time to do it yourself, you'll really find what you're looking for.

Great.

But its still ridiculously expensive to travel in north america.

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Originally posted by kamil Great. But its still ridiculously expensive to travel in north america.

totally depends on timeframe and location. I've flown from New Orleans to Chicago for $198 over Thanksgiving Weekend....but if I wanted to fly from Gulfport to Chicago (closer, but smaller airport to where I was living), it would have run me $398.

smaller airports generally (not always) are more expensive. but I flew from Longview, TX to Dallas and it was like $98 plus $3 a day for parking lol.

Amtrak (rail service) still, however, blows my mind as to how pricey it is