Best flight search engines for Europe / Middle East

[kamadzu4]

I've been using kayak.com mostly, but for flights between western Europe and Israel, kayak only searches like 6 different sources.

Are any other sites better for this part of the world?

[crhptic]

Well, those 6 sources search the vast majority of scheduled airlines (basically anything that puts fares into a major GDS) so I'm not sure what else you expect some other source to find. You could also check Opodo (www.opodo.co.uk) but I'd expect results to be fairly similar. Also, be aware that sometimes European Expedia sites (for example, Expedia.de) will have fares that Expedia.com doesn't have or vice versa, due to sales restrictions - might want to check both.

Finally, whichbudget.com is a good reference of LCC's that might help you identify smaller carriers that don't participate in the major GDS, so you can look into booking directly.

Hope that helps.

[Argonaut1000]

Try skyscanner.net

[Romelle]

If you search on "budget airlines Europe" you get tons of responses. You can refine it a bit with "budget airlines" and the two cities in which you are interested at the moment.

There are some that list city and which airlines serve it. Just don't have one of the addresses in front of me at the moment.

Romelle

[msk6261]

Copied from WikiTravel.org which had a wealth of info on the topic :

http://wikitravel.org/en/Discount_ai...mparison_sites

Low cost airline comparison sites

These meta search engines look through many of the websites above and compare prices on one page.

* Volagratis.com Cheap flights and discount airline tickets search engine within and to Europe and worldwide.

* AirlineTickets.de Search & price comparison engine for very low airfares within and to Europe and worldwide.

* FlyCheapo.com Low-cost airline route search and news.

* Flylc.com European discount flights search engine.

* FlyLowCostAirlines.org Search engine of low-cost airlines' flights.

* TheLowcostAirlinesBlog.com lists the latest offers from discount airlines.

* Kayak Popular flight search engine which includes some European low-cost airlines.

* OptiFly.com Flight Search Engine and Visualization Tool for optimizing your trip using a combination of low cost carriers and major airlines.

* Momondo.com Low-cost airline search engine.

* Skyscanner.net Search engine that started out covering pan-European destinations and expanding to other countries around the world. Most discount airlines are covered, and the most useful feature is a monthly bar chart that allows you to compare the cheapest dates to travel on a calendar. The second most useful feature is the ability to define start- and destination by country instead of by city, with summary of best fares found for each city, if maximum flexibility and lowest fares are desired.

* WiseTravelSearch.co.uk This sites helps you search and compare the top online travel agents (including Kayak and Skyscanner) for low-cost flights.

* Travelmarket.com Search engine with agencies, low cost carriers and regular carriers.

* CheapOnlineFlights.com Compare scheduled, charter and lowcost airlines from the UK.

* Viviro.com Compares airfares from tradtional and lowcost airlines in addition to travel agencies. No cached prices

[dmatorin]

This one is new to me but from what I can see its pretty good so far:

http://www.edreams.com/edreams/english/

[migajos]

For British / Irish I'd recommend http://www.flyography.co.uk It's an interactive map showing all low-cost airlines connections from all UK and Ireland airports with direct links to airlines.