Flexible search engines needed for flights

Azcentral · **Posted:** Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:42 pm

I have always relied on cheaptickets.com to find great weekend deals or compare prices in a month. But now they also have stoped flexible searches for outside the US. Anyone have a solid alternative recomendation for searching multiple weekends and carriers at once?

Palynx · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:35 pm **Posts:** 757

I have never been able to use cheaptickets for flights originating outside the US. Kayak.com is very good for this. That is my second choice to use.

Diablo · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:04 am

http://www.onetime.com/

Delaware Guy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:09 am

Check out this short thread of only about 2 weeks ago:

https://costaricaticas.com/phpBB2/vi ... highlight=

Travelman · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 6:42 am

Try kayak.com. Always works for me.

Azcentral · **Posted:** Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:28 pm

That sucks. We lost a great search tool for flights. These others are good if you want to check different weekends in a month by reinputing new dates. But with the old cheaptickets you could show a whole months worth of weekend travel dates and pick a cheaper weekend to fly in a month.

Delaware Guy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:05 am

For some reason all the reservation systems stopped letting you search for the cheapest tickets over a broad range of dates on anything invloving international travel. They call it a security issue. If anybody has an explaination for that one I'd love to hear it. Maybe they figure when the terrorists are plotting the next great airline hijacking they'll want to do it with the cheapest tickets avaialble.

Berk2302 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:55 am **Posts:** 2171

This really pisses me off. I just discovered Orbitz has dropped the flexible dates for travel outside the country. I signed up with Kayak and at least I can get a weeks spread at a time. That's better than nothing.

Berk......

Prowler · **Joined:** Sun Mar 14, 2004 10:40 am **Posts:** 46

Still using Sidestep.com, I believe it's been mentioned on the board before.

Downandup · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:32 am

Delaware Guy wrote:

For some reason all the reservation systems stopped letting you search for the cheapest tickets over a broad range of dates on anything invloving international travel. They call it a security issue. If anybody has an explaination for that one I'd love to hear it. Maybe they figure when the terrorists are plotting the next great airline hijacking they'll want to do it with the cheapest tickets avaialble.

It wasn't so much of a security issue as the fact that there are a lot of additional fees added to the fare that were not disclosed up front. When you do a search it gives you the results without those fees added. So when you see a fare for $499 it does not include $200 of various additions. Only when you book your ticket would you see these additional fees totaled up.

XMan · **Posted:** Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:23 pm

I kind of feel like the airlines were making it harder for frequent travelers to find cheaper fares. So I call them have them find the dates that are cheapest, tell them I will think about it and buy them at their website.

Xman

Berk2302 · **Joined:** Sat Aug 28, 2004 6:55 am **Posts:** 2171

Downandup wrote:

Delaware Guy wrote:

For some reason all the reservation systems stopped letting you search for the cheapest tickets over a broad range of dates on anything invloving international travel. They call it a security issue. If anybody has an explaination for that one I'd love to hear it. Maybe they figure when the terrorists are plotting the next great airline hijacking they'll want to do it with the cheapest tickets avaialble.

It wasn't so much of a security issue as the fact that there are a lot of additional fees added to the fare that were not disclosed up front. When you do a search it gives you the results without those fees added. So when you see a fare for $499 it does not include $200 of various additions. Only when you book your ticket would you see these additional fees totaled up.

Orbitz dropped the flexible search and showed the total cost upfront.

Berk.....

PacoLoco · **Posted:** Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:47 am

Here's some sites that have been previously posted:
www.kayak.com
www.sidestep.com
http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch
www.farecompare.com
www.travelope.com
www.qixo.com
http://www.mobissimo.com
http://quickfares.bestfares.com/quickfa ... quickfares
http://www.zuji.com.hk/web/content/hk/index.html
http://farechase.yahoo.com/
http://www.milemaven.com/ - get the most miles from your trip, also shows fares.

PacoLoco · **Posted:** Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:39 pm

A few more handy sites for air travel...
Delays & flight stats-
http://www.avoiddelays.com/
http://www.flightstats.com/go/Home/home.do

Security threats-
http://www.asigroup.com/HOTSPOTS.asp

Blue skies!

Palynx · **Joined:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 11:35 pm **Posts:** 757

Try this one ---> www.farecast.com

It is new and does a real good job at calculating When to buy your tickets for the best/lowest price. They are building up so your destination may show up in the future.

www.CostaRicaTicas.com

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