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| pmoisse |
www.expedia.com
In my shopping over here, I've actually found that the best deals are on the airlines websites themselves |
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| tubularbills |
| almost every flight i've found that was the cheapest and had the best selection was orbitz. |
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| The17sss |
| 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. |
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| lenazi |
| 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. |
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| iammesol |
| Cheers everybody. Means a lot. :) |
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| 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. |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | 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.
| quote: | | 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. |
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