CruisingwitSmile

How to find the cheapest airline through the use of google search engine:

Parameter's => Cheap Monday airline deal, Cheapest Tuesday airline ticket...ecc

Use this parameter's when searching for last minute deal:

=>Monday last minute airline
=>Tuesday last minute airline'A ...ecc

Inserting such parameter's on search will pull related last minute offer's base on departure date.

Thanks

LAXlocal

can you add a price range ? or a city ?

MitzEclipse

Hi all
i'm trying to fly 2 people from SEA-ZRH. Trying to find the cheapest tickets and looking to the FT community for a strategy how to best approach this as usually I am constrained by dates. Duration for the trip will be around 2 weeks +/- a few days and I only want them to have one stop. Alliance doesn't matter.

Is the best way to search a query like this is via Kayak/Hipmonk/etc? Are there any other better ways to find the best combination?

Many thanks in advance

moondog

Google flights

ChangingNappies

matrix.itasoftware.com

pinniped

Agree with both of those: IIRC, Google bought ITA. Google Flights is the easy-to-use interface, but the direct link to ITA lets you enter some power-user codes to do advanced filtering.

For your purpose, Google Flights is probably the best place to start.

Yoshi212

I concur with google.com/flights and also look at flights from nearby/easy to get to airports such at PDX, YVR, BLI and even SFO as getting there is easy and relatively inexpensive.

MitzEclipse

many thanks all! appreciate the tip forgot about google flights - it's exactly what I'm looking for. Cheers

ChangingNappies

A good way to find routes between alternate airports is rome2rio.com. It will suggest such airports and give you duration/price of transit to/from those airports. Then you need to run the suggested routes throught google flights / itasoftware to get price accross multiple dates.

JY1024

Moving this over to the Travel Tools forum, which covers software tools/services. Thanks. JY1024, TravelBuzz co-moderator

gsusser

My travel dates are flexible. I would imagine an app or site is available for my purposes but can't find one. I tried skyscanner but that didn't seem to give me the info I want. Can someone point me in the right direction? The primary criteria:

-Travel dates are flexible by 1 week

-I don't want more than 1 stop or greater than a certain amount of time to get from A to B

Thanks.

pinniped

ITA should work.

CruisingwitSmile

@LAXlocal, you can add cities to help narrow your search and filter unwanted result.

Secondly, i donot suggest adding price range when making research b/c most travel search engine's can set-up promotion offer's with low price just to entice customer's.

Infact, i suggest doing this manually directly on the homepage of a specific travel site. Because doing so directly from google will only yield what we call promotional offer (price quotation) the actual price for a given destination changes when you land on the homepage of the travel site.

NOTE: Below are other travel researching tool. They are very popular tool's but, may be unknown to many traveller's:
booking buddy & Hotel combine

The 1st is for research of cheap flight while the 2nd tool is used to check & compare available room's and prices from major travel search engines including expedia


Thanks

pinniped

Use ITA. It will show the current available fares, regardless of whether the airline is marketing them as "promotional" or "sale" or not. Find your ideal flight there, and go directly to the airline site to buy it.

(Talking published commercial flights only, of course.)

Flight + hotel combos are almost never a good deal, IME. Either (a) I can simply get the same or better deal by booking both directly, (b) I don't get my hotel elite benefits when I book the combo, or (c) the combo ends up booking through a third party agent for *both* the airline and the hotel, thus exposing me to greater risk during IROPS, greater hassle if I ever need to change or cancel a trip, and often less functionality (check-in, seats, etc.) on the airline and/or hotel websites.

If somebody has a travel agent or website that actually has screaming-good package deals, I'd be interested to hear it. At the end of the day, it would have to be a TA with access to amazingly cheap (as in...damn near free) hotel inventory that somehow nobody else has. The other way...a TA with amazingly cheap (yet still mileage, status, and upgrade eligible) airfares that they use as a hook to get you to the hotel seems like an extinct species unless you're in a targeted high-value group for a particular casino hotel.

Kagehitokiri

are there still search options for having no destination city as well, showing cities by price?

pinniped, there is discussion of AA packages with great J fares (ignore hotel)
im curious whether % off package deals can ever apply to expensive hotel/suite
also, why "amazingly cheap" / "free" as opposed to just good deals ?
some good agents may pass on most of savings on J/F 'net' airfares