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Archive for November, 2005

Cheap Flights Roundup: Where I go for fares online

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

I just wrote this email to a friend, and it’s worth sharing. In the past year the online cheap flight-deal landscape has changed. Things aren’t as simple — no, but they’re better. Witness the CheapAir flexible travel search: You don’t need to enter your desired dates, just your destination. Type in where you want to go and it returns all your options, with what dates they’re available. That’s pretty sweet functionality you couldn’t find last year.


So, here are the places I go now when looking to fly:

  1. Air Fare Watchdog: I start here, scouting any deals on destinations that the flight searches might not turn up.
  2. Orbitz: I go here next if my dates are set in stone.
  3. CheapAir: I go here if my dates aren’t concrete.
  4. Mobissimo: I finish here to make sure I didn’t miss anything.

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Kayak Buzz is pretty cool: Find the best fares from the most popular places

Monday, November 14th, 2005

… and find them with a cool map that pinpoints your location, and all the other places you can go for cheap (or kind-of cheap) dollars. Kayak Buzz is the best use of google maps and air fares I’ve seen yet, and I like that they took the time to put this together. I haven’t used it to book a flight yet, but I might. Here’s a link to Kayak Buzz. Now if only airfarewatchdog would put something like this together :) .

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