Originally Posted by
wanaflyforless
Basically, my primary method to find MR fares is:
1) Go to FareCompare and search from your city sorting by price.
Open up a separate browser and look up the routing for each interesting fare on FareCompare.
Don't book anything most days.
2) Keep going to FareCompare everyday until one day an unusually low fare with a juicy routing comes along. After exploring availability and best schedules (on the longest routes permitted by the routing rules) book with haste. The better the fare, the less likely it is going to stick around for long.
Kudos for this entire post. It may be the best summary of how to approach the whole process that I've read in the past year and a half, and certainly made me consider some alternate MR ideas. Thanks!