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monster 10-20-2009 08:53 PM

Best Air Ticket Prices?
 
need to book flights to Florida for Feb. What vendor would you use? Currently favoring Expedia, but do you have a better suggestion? I nixed Travelocity already -their site is horrid and you go through all the rigmarole of entering the data and three seconds later they tell you the flight you just selected is no longer availabale due to hight traffic atm and dump you back at the data entry point -wtf? it's Tues night, I'm trying to get flights from mich to flo in feb I find it hard to believe the flight sold out in the time it took to get to the confirm screen. bullshitting whatsits.


OFFS I always forget to check the heading for typos and it's the only thing I can't change -bruce/Wolf/UT, please take pity on me again

monster 10-20-2009 08:56 PM

In the meanwhile, I welcome the sub/dom crowd this post will attract....

Clodfobble 10-20-2009 09:00 PM

I've found that nowadays the airlines themselves offer prices just as good on their own websites. In theory it's a little extra work checking multiple websites, but I think the travel agent websites are all really user-unfriendly anyway, so the time spent seems to work out about the same.

monster 10-20-2009 09:09 PM

thanks. will do that. I usually go to the sites of the cheapest find on expedia and have never found them cheaper, but forgot to do it this time.

monster 10-20-2009 09:13 PM

exactly the same to the penny. will now check the car hire....

wolf 10-20-2009 09:16 PM

Book directly with the airline. Easier to fix screwups, and you have the whole frequent flyer thing going for you.

monster 10-20-2009 09:17 PM

car rental same too

monster 10-20-2009 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf (Post 602321)
Book directly with the airline. Easier to fix screwups, and you have the whole frequent flyer thing going for you.


orly? have always had great service from expedia and occassionally shitty swevice from airline booked direct. thnaks for the heads up, though, will give it more consideration

monster 10-20-2009 09:20 PM

thanks for the title fix, btw

Cloud 10-20-2009 09:55 PM

According to Times 2009 50 best websites:

Quote:

Which travel site should you turn to when booking plane tickets: a) Travelocity, b) Expedia or c) Orbitz? The answer is d) All of the above — by using Kayak, a meta-search site for travelers. Kayak scours more than 100 search engines in order to find the lowest possible price. One tip: before you buy from any travel site, always check Southwest. It's the one major airline that refuses to play ball with the ticketing sites, so sometimes they have the best deal and even Kayak doesn't know about it.
http://www.kayak.com/

haven't used it myself tho

Undertoad 10-20-2009 09:57 PM

Southwest books separately from all those, but the only nonstop MI to FL is detroit to orlando. Wanna get away? southwest.com .

Perry Winkle 10-21-2009 07:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cloud (Post 602331)
According to Times 2009 50 best websites:



http://www.kayak.com/

haven't used it myself tho

Kayak is good. I use it and Expedia.

richlevy 10-21-2009 08:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 602310)
In the meanwhile, I welcome the sub/dom crowd this post will attract....

Actually, everyone who flies these days has to be a masochist.:cool:

pocono101 11-06-2009 01:45 PM

I like to use Priceline and then Hotwire and then to comparison sites.

xoxoxoBruce 11-07-2009 01:04 AM

Welcome to the Cellar, pocono101. :D

You're not going to try to rent/sell us Pocono properties, right? :eyebrow:


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