Which website do you use to book flights at the best price?

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Ryan Hoover · Accepted Answer

I default to Hipmunk when searching for flights.  It sorts flights by "agony" which takes into account departure/arrival times and obnoxious layovers.

Shreya Bagaria · Answer

Love that I can set my location and it suggests me dates with the cheapest airfares.

Mark Kiner · Answer

Very simple, compares basically every airline flying from destination, can do multi-city, and don't have to know dates.

Michael Facchinello · Answer

Crazy amount of control with search queries that enables flexible travelers to get the best rate.

Maya · Answer

For more complex trips or long distance trips, I get a trip that isn't too painful at a great price

Anne-Laure Le Cunff · Answer

I use Momondo - only their hotel search product is listed here, but I've found amazing deals through their flight search engine. They have a "flexible" option so you can get the cheapest date to go to your destination.

Digrammer · Answer

the only one service which shows you flights with hidden-city option

Dimitar Raykov · Answer

Love the multicity option the radius search. :)

Gert Hattingh · Answer

Compare multiple airlines. Multi city flights and multi airline return flights.

Vincent Pauwels · Answer

follows changing prices of your flight

Jason Rados · Answer

The clean UI and speed make searching, exploring and monitoring flight prices a breeze.

Sambruce Joseph · Answer

It works perfectly almost in any countries.

Vinit Agrawal · Answer

They have a calendar feature, which shows all the cheapest flights in a give time range. Great place to get an idea about the prices, before you dig deeper.

PS: If you are travelling in India.

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In an abstract way - Chase's Ultimate Reward program is really great.  Essentially you find and book flights for free on points that don't expire.

Pavan Sethi · Answer

Skyscanner is great!  Especially if you're travel is somewhat flexible, it does an awesome job at recommending flights at the best price closest to your desired time/day.

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Definitely Skiplagged. I've saved hundreds of dollars on flights with it... for example, turns out a flight from Cleveland --> Houston --> Cancun is $300 cheaper than a flight from Cleveland --> Houston. That's what Skiplagged can show you. It's wonderful.

Alix Axel · Answer

I use Adioso when I feel like travelling but I don't exactly know when/where, it has a intuitive UI and quite some exploratory features. Together with Google Flight Search these are my tools of choice.

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They have very good prices.

Debitoor · Answer

I'd also highly recommend Skyscanner! You can filter the results with different criteria, so if you only want direct flights, you can get rid of any that involve transfers. It also lets you search for nearby airports to find the cheapest deal.

My only criticism is that Skyscanner doesn't take into account certain fares - for example, SAS does 30% discount for under 26s, but Skyscanner doesn't show this.

Paul Martens · Answer

Google flights is always my first place I visit. No, it doesn't have Southwest, but I don't often fly them for some reason.

Neil Cocker · Answer

Yeah, Google Flights is my go-to. It's got loads of flexibility, and it's really clean. No pop-ups, no attempts to sell you other stuff.  The rates tracker is incredibly useful, too.

Luis Miguel Pena · Answer

Radius search, Clean UI, Fast Bookings and best prices.