Best Air Ticket Prices?

monster · 10-20-2009, 09:53 PM

need to book flights to Florida for Feb. What vendor would you use? Currently favoring Expedia, but do you have a better suggestion? I nixed Travelocity already -their site is horrid and you go through all the rigmarole of entering the data and three seconds later they tell you the flight you just selected is no longer availabale due to hight traffic atm and dump you back at the data entry point -wtf? it's Tues night, I'm trying to get flights from mich to flo in feb I find it hard to believe the flight sold out in the time it took to get to the confirm screen. bullshitting whatsits.

OFFS I always forget to check the heading for typos and it's the only thing I can't change -bruce/Wolf/UT, please take pity on me again

monster · 10-20-2009, 09:56 PM

In the meanwhile, I welcome the sub/dom crowd this post will attract....

Clodfobble · 10-20-2009, 10:00 PM

I've found that nowadays the airlines themselves offer prices just as good on their own websites. In theory it's a little extra work checking multiple websites, but I think the travel agent websites are all really user-unfriendly anyway, so the time spent seems to work out about the same.

monster · 10-20-2009, 10:09 PM

thanks. will do that. I usually go to the sites of the cheapest find on expedia and have never found them cheaper, but forgot to do it this time.

monster · 10-20-2009, 10:13 PM

exactly the same to the penny. will now check the car hire....

wolf · 10-20-2009, 10:16 PM

Book directly with the airline. Easier to fix screwups, and you have the whole frequent flyer thing going for you.

monster · 10-20-2009, 10:17 PM

car rental same too

monster · 10-20-2009, 10:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf

Book directly with the airline. Easier to fix screwups, and you have the whole frequent flyer thing going for you.

orly? have always had great service from expedia and occassionally shitty swevice from airline booked direct. thnaks for the heads up, though, will give it more consideration

monster · 10-20-2009, 10:20 PM

thanks for the title fix, btw

Cloud · 10-20-2009, 10:55 PM

According to Times 2009 50 best websites:

Quote:

Which travel site should you turn to when booking plane tickets: a) Travelocity, b) Expedia or c) Orbitz? The answer is d) All of the above — by using Kayak, a meta-search site for travelers. Kayak scours more than 100 search engines in order to find the lowest possible price. One tip: before you buy from any travel site, always check Southwest. It's the one major airline that refuses to play ball with the ticketing sites, so sometimes they have the best deal and even Kayak doesn't know about it.

http://www.kayak.com/

haven't used it myself tho

Undertoad · 10-20-2009, 10:57 PM

Southwest books separately from all those, but the only nonstop MI to FL is detroit to orlando. Wanna get away? southwest.com .

Perry Winkle · 10-21-2009, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cloud

According to Times 2009 50 best websites:

http://www.kayak.com/

haven't used it myself tho

Kayak is good. I use it and Expedia.

richlevy · 10-21-2009, 09:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

In the meanwhile, I welcome the sub/dom crowd this post will attract....

Actually, everyone who flies these days has to be a masochist.

pocono101 · 11-06-2009, 02:45 PM

I like to use Priceline and then Hotwire and then to comparison sites.

xoxoxoBruce · 11-07-2009, 02:04 AM

Welcome to the Cellar, pocono101.

You're not going to try to rent/sell us Pocono properties, right?

10-20-2009, 09:53 PM	#1
monster eyeball-driller Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brit in Ann Arbor MI Posts: 10,493	Best Air Ticket Prices? need to book flights to Florida for Feb. What vendor would you use? Currently favoring Expedia, but do you have a better suggestion? I nixed Travelocity already -their site is horrid and you go through all the rigmarole of entering the data and three seconds later they tell you the flight you just selected is no longer availabale due to hight traffic atm and dump you back at the data entry point -wtf? it's Tues night, I'm trying to get flights from mich to flo in feb I find it hard to believe the flight sold out in the time it took to get to the confirm screen. bullshitting whatsits. OFFS I always forget to check the heading for typos and it's the only thing I can't change -bruce/Wolf/UT, please take pity on me again __________________ chaos is my co-pilot

10-20-2009, 09:56 PM	#2
monster eyeball-driller Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brit in Ann Arbor MI Posts: 10,493	In the meanwhile, I welcome the sub/dom crowd this post will attract.... __________________ chaos is my co-pilot

10-20-2009, 10:00 PM	#3
Clodfobble Gives sound advice Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 8,770	I've found that nowadays the airlines themselves offer prices just as good on their own websites. In theory it's a little extra work checking multiple websites, but I think the travel agent websites are all really user-unfriendly anyway, so the time spent seems to work out about the same. __________________ My new cooking blog

10-20-2009, 10:09 PM	#4
monster eyeball-driller Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brit in Ann Arbor MI Posts: 10,493	thanks. will do that. I usually go to the sites of the cheapest find on expedia and have never found them cheaper, but forgot to do it this time. __________________ chaos is my co-pilot

10-20-2009, 10:13 PM	#5
monster eyeball-driller Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brit in Ann Arbor MI Posts: 10,493	exactly the same to the penny. will now check the car hire.... __________________ chaos is my co-pilot

10-20-2009, 10:16 PM	#6
wolf chews 3 times on each side Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 17,203	Book directly with the airline. Easier to fix screwups, and you have the whole frequent flyer thing going for you. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

10-20-2009, 10:17 PM	#7
monster eyeball-driller Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brit in Ann Arbor MI Posts: 10,493	car rental same too __________________ chaos is my co-pilot

10-20-2009, 10:20 PM	#9
monster eyeball-driller Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brit in Ann Arbor MI Posts: 10,493	thanks for the title fix, btw __________________ chaos is my co-pilot

10-20-2009, 10:57 PM	#11
Undertoad has ass cheeseburgers Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Valley Forge Natl Park Posts: 18,799	Southwest books separately from all those, but the only nonstop MI to FL is detroit to orlando. Wanna get away? southwest.com .

11-06-2009, 02:45 PM	#14
pocono101 Kinda New Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1	I like to use Priceline and then Hotwire and then to comparison sites.

11-07-2009, 02:04 AM	#15
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 32,457	Welcome to the Cellar, pocono101. You're not going to try to rent/sell us Pocono properties, right? __________________ Excuse me Miss, does this handkerchief smell like chloroform?

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