best site for booking airlines?
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Usually Kayak. I'll also check Allegiant directly as they do not sell on the middleman websites only direct.
Use the airline website and monitor the flight even after purchase. I have tickets to Aruba in July direct from BWI and the price has dropped three times. They won't refund the difference but I received credits that I can use on my next flight. It's a game.
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Delta.com / Google.com/flights
travelocity....I was amazed at how much cheaper they were than the airlines.
And I always check the airline site after I get a price from Travelociy to be sure.
Never tried Kayak or Google Flights
And I always check the airline site after I get a price from Travelociy to be sure.
Never tried Kayak or Google Flights
Add another vote for google.com/flights have booked my last 3 flights through the airline site via Google and had been significantly cheaper.
Additionally, I think that google has a contract to be in the databases of the airlines, as any glitch in pricing shows up there too. Haven't heard about such glitches making their way to Orbitz/Expedia/kayak/etc.
Additionally, I think that google has a contract to be in the databases of the airlines, as any glitch in pricing shows up there too. Haven't heard about such glitches making their way to Orbitz/Expedia/kayak/etc.
If it just takes you to the airline site to book, why not just go there in the first place?
Can you see seat availability on Google flights?
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Because that's not all Kayak does. It pulls up all of the other middlemen websites (like Travelocity, Orbits and Priceline) and the airlines plus it's own prices and then gives you all of the results so you can pick the cheapest. It doesn't even select itself most of the time, I've used it for probably hundreds of hotels in the past five years and more than a few flights and it probably selects its own service as cheapest 15% of the time.
They go by the same policy that the airline you are flying has.
They can then credit if they like to their account. We had a client back out the day before I had trip. The airline was going to charge a large fee to cancel. I called travelocity told them the situation and they gave me a full credit for my next purchase. Only catch was that the credit had to be used for that airline.
So using them worked to my advantage that day.
Thats true. Also recently read you should clear your browser and search histories and reset every so often while Flight searching.
It's my favorite of the Kayak commercials and as soon as I saw the thread I knew I was going to post the gif. I just looked for a Kayak related comment to reply to, so yes, you were.
I always use private or incognito browsing when searching for travel. I've also heard that using a proxy will net you different prices, but haven't tried it myself.
I just purchased 4 airline tickets. I shopped a gazillion websites- expedia, cheapoair, Travelocity, priceline,travel zoo, kayak, orbitz, trip advisor, seat guru and the list goes on...
The cheapest I could find for the tickets and destination I needed? Southwest. What's funny is you can't buy Southwest tickets off any of those sites and yet they were still by both a little and a lot cheaper than the other airlines. I looked at Allegiant but they only fly certain days and only to a handful of cities.
Just from my recent experience,I have no idea how those orbitz type companies exist. Even the Delta prices all those sites were giving me weren't as low as the actual Delta website.Delta was the next cheapest after Southwest.
Maybe mine was out of the ordinary?
The cheapest I could find for the tickets and destination I needed? Southwest. What's funny is you can't buy Southwest tickets off any of those sites and yet they were still by both a little and a lot cheaper than the other airlines. I looked at Allegiant but they only fly certain days and only to a handful of cities.
Just from my recent experience,I have no idea how those orbitz type companies exist. Even the Delta prices all those sites were giving me weren't as low as the actual Delta website.Delta was the next cheapest after Southwest.
Maybe mine was out of the ordinary?
They sell advertising, they're not really in the travel business. The content drives users to the site.
I never book anything except directly from the company's website. Airfare, rental car, hotel etc. I use other sites to search for the best price, but I couldn't imagine trying to settle a dispute when booking through a third party website with no customer service. When booking a recent trip to Europe, I found google flights the easiest by far to compare prices and quickly see the price effect on changing dates.
Agree.
Only exception is I will use booking.com for hotels. Saves time searching, the prices are generally the same and the cancellation policies are based on the hotel's policies.
