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Best Cheap Discount Airfare Sites
By travelanswerman | June 9, 2009
Finding reduced discount airfares these days can be a real challenge, so check out these websites before you book your next flight to see if you can’t lower your costs. You might also review our past postings for blogs that have highlighted reduced air fares.
Kayak: Kayak is one of the best sites to find national fares. The site draws from more than 140 sources to help you find the best deal. You can’t buy the tickets directly on the site, but Kayak is more than happy to direct you to the site where you can. Features include the ability to search for fares up to 3 days before or after your chosen travel dates to see if there is any substantial discount.
Farecast: Before you book any flights domestically, give Farcast a quick check. Farecast predicts whether or not rates will go up or down using past fare trends to make its estimations. You can use this information to know if you should purchase your tickets immediately or wait a few days for a better deal.
Airfare Watchdog: Find listings for fire fares, fare wars and blooper fares on this site that gives you access to some of the most ridiculously low fares, provided you’re prepared to book immediately and have some flexibility in your destination and travel dates.
LowesTravel: Find some of the cheapest international fares for over 60 airlines worldwide on LowesTravel.com. While you’ll get the best deals on airfare, you can also book hotels and rental cars from this site as well.
WebFlyer: Frequent fliers will find WebFlyer a great help in making the most of airline miles. Users will find how they can best use their miles or points to get upgrades, free flights or even how to combine different programs to get the best deals.
dohop.com: Search over 660 airlines everywhere in the world to find the best deals and fastest routes on airfare on dohop.com. The site remembers your departure city and displays cheap domestic flights on the front page every time you visit.
Qixo: Users can find everything they need to travel on Qixo, but they’ll find the greatest selection and value on airline prices from the site. One of the largest airfare search engines, Qixo scours 28 online airfare retailers to bring you the cheapest prices for your travel dates.
Farechaser: Use this online search engine to find the best deals on flights, where to find ticket brokers, and how to find and book travel packages.
BestFares.com: This site is one of the best places to look for discounted airfare. Browse through destinations or check out the top 30 cheapest fares departing from your home city.
Southwest.com: Southwest is one of the best airlines to visit when looking for travel bargains, but many of the larger fare search sites don’t include it, so it can be a good idea to check the airline directly to see if there are any deals to be had before purchasing tickets elsewhere.
Sidestep: Sidestep is a great price aggregator for finding airline deals. A matrix gives you the results with prices from over 600 different airlines on 200 sites across the Web.
FlyCheapo: While the name might not inspire the greatest confidence, this site is a great way to get the lowest rates on flights from discount carriers within Europe. Enter your departure and destination cities and you’ll find a listing of the airlines with connecting flights between them.
CheapTickets: Use CheapTickets to find a bargain on your next flight. Search the site for prices or take advantage of the special partner deals on the site’s main page.
SkyAuction: If bidding on low airfare doesn’t put you off, then try out this Internet airfare auction site. You can find deals on tickets going to almost anywhere worldwide, and if you’re lucky, you can score them for considerably less than you would have paid elsewhere.
TicTrip: Search through prices from the biggest online ticket retailers with this site. Simply put in your departure and destination cities, click on one of the 12 sites TicTrip searches and get results which you can easily compare to find the best deal.
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June 22nd, 2009 at 10:43 pm
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