What are good sites to get cheap airline tickets ?

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Mr. T's Pretty Cuzzin

http://www.ryanair.com 1 penny + tax

Mike R

Booking through the airline's website is the cheapest options. I always check sites like expedia.com or travelocity.com and then see which airline has the cheapest option, and then I go to that airline's website and look for the exact same flights, and it's always the same price or cheaper - plus all of those sites charge a "booking fee" of $5 or more so it's actually more expensive to go through those sites. And plus many airlines guarantee that you'll find cheaper fares through their websites. Travel agents also charge enough fees that you probably won't find anything cheaper through them. Also check out the websites of the "low-fare" airlines (like Southwest Airlines, JetBlue) because they only have their fares on their own websites and not ones like expedia. Although I always find that they're at least as expensive as the other airlines. (Side note: One really bad thing about "low-fare" airlines: In the event that there's a major weather problem and your flight gets cancelled, they can only re-book you on another flight on that airline. Major airlines, like United or Delta or American, have agreements with other airlines so they can book you on another airline if you need, but the low-fare airlines don't have such agreements).

Other than that - just be as flexible as possible with your travel dates and times and stuff like that. Also if you can fly into an "alternate" airport - like Baltimore instead of Washington or Oakland instead of San Francisco - then it might offer cheaper airfares. However keep in mind that going out of a less convenient airport can actually cost more money if you have to take a shuttle to the airport or something - if it's farther away it might cost you more to get to the airport then you save by having cheaper fares.

LilB

Some airlines have better fares directly on there website. Northwest Airlines (www.nwa.com) guarantees that there fare on there website will be lower then buying NWA tickets from a third party website.

Southwest Airlines (discounted carrier) does not post there fares on third party websites.

I always first look at the airlines website if you cannot find any through the airline that are cheap, use the following list...

Orbitz.com
Travelocity.com
travel.aol.com
CheapTickets.com

Good Luck!

Sean S

ive heard expedia.com is pretty reasonable or wait till whatever airlines has a special and then get tickets

Palmisan

cheapoair.com

alicias7768

www.cheatickets.com
www.expedia.com
www.travelocity.com

Keith

Travelzoo.com

aerbare

I always check Travel Zoo first and then I compare to all those other sites, but honestly, I always go back to www.travelzoo.com or Hotwire.com. Hotwire is always the cheapest flight around. On top of that...call the airline directly and tell them you want a better price, you'll usually get it.

My favorite site is: www.kayak.com.

This site pulls information from over 150 other sites. One of the coolest thingsis to watch trends in prices. I recently purchased a roundtrip ticket from Washington, DC (DCA) to Seatle, Washington (SEA) for under $300.

Good Luck!

Midori

I always buy my tickets on priceline.. I find it the cheapest.

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