Comments on: Another way to find a cheaper ticket

By: Cheap airfare deals

Cheap airfare deals — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:04:16 +0000

I already familiar with another site only4deals. Its really good working and i was happy with mt recent trip to Canada 15 days back. It’s better worth.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:34:11 +0000

Great to meet you too, Lefty.
Premier Executive is the best level to be at – lots of perks. The only additional perk that 100K offered that I liked was 6 system wide (i.e. world-wide) upgrades. But it’s not worth flying another 50,000 miles for!

By: Lefty

Lefty — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:31:41 +0000

Another site much like Kayak is Sidestep.com; it works quite nicely for me…
I’m happy because this last trip to Istanbul bumped me up to Premier Executive/Star Alliance Gold. I’m starting to pick up the really good perks now!
Great to meet you, Stormy, and I’m looking forward to working with you.

By: Stormy

Stormy — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 14:49:25 +0000

I actually paid $1650.
I also forgot to mention that I tried to buy the ticket direct from both United and Turkish Airlines and neither one of them could book the combined ticket that Orbitz sold me.

By: Joe Shaw

Joe Shaw — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:50:16 +0000

There’s a good possibility that the price that Orbitz quoted was the full fare price plus fees like the 9/11 security fee, airport fees, etc. A lot of sites don’t include that information until it’s time to actually buy your ticket to make it seem like they have cheaper fares. In the end, was the amount your CC was charged actually $1650 or $1806?

By: Patrick Wagstrom

Patrick Wagstrom — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:38:03 +0000

Another great site, which really epitomizes the web 2.0 concept of mashups is Kayak. It’s one click for searching a huge number of travel sites and the filtering tools make it really top notch (I’d like to leave sometime between 7am and 9am, land sometime between noon and 2pm, and only have 1 layover on star alliance carriers). They also provide helpful indicators when a flight is nearly full or has a really long layover to help in the booking process. Sadly, they don’t yet take into account checked baggage fees to give a complete cost of travel.
Their hotel search tool is great too — everything is plotted on a familiar and friendly google map. There’s even an option to have it give distances from a particular location or landmark. For the computer nerd, Kayak’s a seriously powerful travel booking tool.
The only issue I’ve really had is the pervasive problem with airline systems offering a ticket and then saying it wasn’t available. Seems to happen pretty often on transatlantic flights booked through orbitz – click for the ticket and get a pleasant message telling you that it will be $200 more.