I know airfarewatchdog, yapta, kayak, skyscanner are popular websites I've learned of from the board.
The Week magazine had a list for booking flight websites, I'm curious if you've used any of these?
-Tripwatcher.com sends alerts for airfare changes on routes you choose. An offshoot of Hotwire, it gives you lowest rates in real-time via email, Twitter or FB
-Pintrips.com acts like a digital bulletin board (think Pinterest) by letting users compare flights from multiple sources. Instead of opening multiple borwers tabs for orbitz, deltc, etc. View all fares on one page.
-Routehappy.com targets those interested in more than just price. You can search flights based on details like age of plane, WIFI availablity, legroom and in flight entertainment
-Getgoing.com provides deep disconts for those willing to gamble. Choose 2 different destinations and the site picks one of them, saving you up to 40%. The drawback is tickets are nonrefundable.
What sites do you like to use when researching or booking?
Post by udscoobychick on Aug 8, 2013 9:11:38 GMT -5
Some of my sister's friends built www.hipmunk.com, and I really like how the flights are displayed (I'm a visual person). I also love their "agony" sort feature--it factors in price and length of layover! I'm not sure whether it can handle flexible dates, but for exact dates, I really like it.
Post by emilyinchile on Aug 8, 2013 11:24:41 GMT -5
Hipmunk is great! I honestly don't get a lot of use out of the agony feature, but I have been finding them to be cheaper than Kayak lately. I've also been checking out Adioso, which is kind of slow and a pain to use but has good prices too. It lets you type text instead of using little fields for each thing, so you write "Santiago, Chile to San Francisco for 8 days in July," which is cool, but I haven't figure out how to get it to understand off the bat I want to do a RT on specific dates (can fix later because the search results do show the usual to/from/dates fields).
I haven't used any of these. The last one is a definite no go for most of my trips. Second to last is not something I'm usually that concerned about either. The first two I might use, but being based in SCL means that usually price predictors and ideas of fares based on other searches aren't available to me because you don't have the same volume of searches for the trips I do.