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If you’re like me, you’ll search nine or ten travel websites before you book a flight. You’re not loyal to any airline or any website. You don’t necessarily care when you fly, as long as it fits your schedule. All you want is the absolute best price you can find.

That being said, my latest website for the best ticket prices is CheapoAir.com. The site promises to save 65% off published fares. I’m not good at math and I’m sure exactly what the published fares might be since there are so many out there, but the site did save me about $50 bucks over Yahoo Travel, the next best rate I could find. Yahoo in turn saved me about $50 bucks over Expedia, which saved me $15 to $20 bucks over several other sites like Orbitz.

HotWire.com would’ve saved me big bucks if I could travel at any time of day, but I’m constrained by work hours and travel time to and from the airport. Priceline’s prices were pedestrian at best. So was the site functionality, to be honest. My old standby, CheapTickets.com” was down for maintenance.

Kayak.com was pretty useless. I used to think that site was pretty good.

Anyway, just thought I’d share. Thanks to CheapOAir.com for letting me spend the weekend fishing at Cape Hatteras with the boys.

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6 Comments

  1. Mike says:

    Good find. I’m trying to take the family to England over the Summer, and this definitely came in handy. Thanks.

    8 January 2007, 10:46 pm

  2. Kehaar says:

    I always feel like there’s a better deal out there. The one thing I didn’t mention is that there are a few Firefox extensions that have been useful for me. There’s also a Yahoo Widget that has been useful but I don’t have it any more.

    9 January 2007, 11:07 am

  3. Mike says:

    I feel the same way about finding the better deal. It’s out there, you just have to invest the time to search for it- which is a pain in the ass. What are those extensions for Firefox?

    9 January 2007, 3:19 pm

  4. Kehaar says:

    I think I used FareCompare

    9 January 2007, 10:51 pm

  5. james says:

    Hi,

    Take a look to Trabber website. This site retrieve air fares directly from online travel agencies and airline website. Here is the address: http://www.trabber.com

    10 January 2007, 3:16 am

  6. Kehaar says:

    Thanks, James. Nice site. I’ll have to use that next time I need to fly. Doesn’t look like it would’ve saved me any money on this trip, but it’s really last minute now.

    10 January 2007, 11:17 am

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