Does a site like this exist?
Dec 31, 2009 | 3:45 am
#1
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Does a site like this exist?
I'm looking for a travel site that will allow me to input my current city and show me cheap flights from that city. I don't care about specific destination--I'm just looking for somewhere to go!
Does a site like this exist? Right now I am in Hong Kong but I'm backpacking and have wished for something like this many times.
Does a site like this exist? Right now I am in Hong Kong but I'm backpacking and have wished for something like this many times.
Dec 31, 2009 | 4:04 am
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It's not quite what you're looking for, but what I usually do is to pull up the local airport's Wikipedia page which almost always lists airlines and destinations to pick out likely candidates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHHH#Ai...d_destinations
One thing to keep in mind in HKG is that quite a bit of the LCC traffic goes through Macau instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_I...d_destinations
In Hong Kong you can often get very cheap fares to BKK on random airlines that fly XXX-BKK-HKG or XXX-HKG-BKK and discount the tag-on leg to fill seats. These include:
Royal Jordanian
Ethiopian
China Airlines (of Taiwan)
Kenya Airways
Emirates
Sri Lankan
With the exception of China Airlines these flights are not daily though, so shop around and be flexible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHHH#Ai...d_destinations
One thing to keep in mind in HKG is that quite a bit of the LCC traffic goes through Macau instead:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau_I...d_destinations
In Hong Kong you can often get very cheap fares to BKK on random airlines that fly XXX-BKK-HKG or XXX-HKG-BKK and discount the tag-on leg to fill seats. These include:
Royal Jordanian
Ethiopian
China Airlines (of Taiwan)
Kenya Airways
Emirates
Sri Lankan
With the exception of China Airlines these flights are not daily though, so shop around and be flexible.
Dec 31, 2009 | 9:17 am
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I think this is close to what you are looking for. But, it is a bit US-centric. Depending on your "home" airport, it gives you more/fewer options:
http://www.farecompare.com/maps/comp...tinations.html
http://www.farecompare.com/maps/comp...tinations.html
Last edited by scoow; Dec 31, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Dec 31, 2009 | 11:47 am
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These are both for United States departures I believe, so it probably would not help so much if you are traveling international.
Airfarewatchdog.com -- Simply input your departure city and you'll get a list of destinations and their fares.
BestFares.com has a feature like this, but I am not sure if you have to be a member of the site to get these fares or what. Here it is anyways: http://www.bestfares.com/SnoozeYouLose.php
Airfarewatchdog.com -- Simply input your departure city and you'll get a list of destinations and their fares.
BestFares.com has a feature like this, but I am not sure if you have to be a member of the site to get these fares or what. Here it is anyways: http://www.bestfares.com/SnoozeYouLose.php
Dec 31, 2009 | 8:32 pm
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Thanks for all of the suggestions. Most of these don't really work for non-US locations very well. But I had totally forgotten about Skyscanner--I dumped them a few years ago for a reason I can't remember and didn't know they had this functionality. Thanks for the suggestion! I'm looking for a stop between HKG and Vietnam and I just found a good deal to the Philippines. Woo!
Jan 3, 2010 | 8:18 pm
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Jan 3, 2010 | 8:46 pm
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Kayak buzz is one that I've already been using. Unfortunately they don't have a lot of great fares from international locations, because they only show fares that other people have searched on.
So if they don't have a fair number of people based in a city doing searches, they don't have a lot of good results. Kayak isn't very popular outside of the US and has limited functionality for intl cities (it searches the American site prices rather than the Asia site prices of an airline which often has much higher fares) so you don't get great results in most cases unfortunately.
So if they don't have a fair number of people based in a city doing searches, they don't have a lot of good results. Kayak isn't very popular outside of the US and has limited functionality for intl cities (it searches the American site prices rather than the Asia site prices of an airline which often has much higher fares) so you don't get great results in most cases unfortunately.
Jan 10, 2010 | 11:04 am
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Jan 11, 2010 | 6:21 am
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