Fares by destination city
 

On the Yahoo! Travel page, there's a section to browse for travel info (material provided by Lonely Planet). If you select a particular city, sometimes it lets you look at Best Fares to that city from an extensive list of US departure points.

Is anyone familiar with the search engine that powers this? I'm hoping there's an easier way to access this kind of search without clicking through all the links on Yahoo! Travel.

Yahoo travel is porting travelocity, and it looks like the data presented in that fare roundup is similar to that on the travelocity dream maps (also available through yahoo). Since the dream maps are always round trip searches, and the fares shown *usually* are the same in both directions, you could use dream maps.

If your destination city is covered by the "best fares" feature of www.air-fare.com, you could also look there.

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Actually, I have found it to be the opposite, especially with international destinations.
I like this "fares by destination" method because I can see if it's significantly cheaper to fly out of a certain airport (and then maybe get a cheap flight to that particular airport).

Use Travelocity. Right on the homepage you can enter your departure and arrival cities and the fares it lists are usually among the best possible.

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Izzik - had I seen any international destinations on the yahoo page I woulndn't have said that. What international dests do you reference? I found the "best fares" button greyed out on such common ones as London, so I figured this was a domestic tool.

fholt - I don't think you are looking at the right place. The page for London, has a best fares link that works, although it's inexplicably linked to LGW.

A quick look at the URL, and experimentation, shows that you can simply edit the last three characters with the airport code of your choice:

http://search.travel.yahoo.com/search/best_fares?n=300&s=deptcity&str_ intl=us&txt_tpl=iy&txt_arrcode=LHR

(The LHR at the end, you can change to whatever airport code you want.)

izzik - Here is another URL hack that will help you even more. You can change the list to be sorted by price instead of departure city:

http://search.travel.yahoo.com/search/best_fares?n=300&s=price&str _intl=us&txt_tpl=iy&txt_arrcode=LHR

(In this URL, the s=destcity [sort by destination city], has been replaced by s=price [sort by price].)

[This message has been edited by flightrisk (edited 12-16-2001).]

Wow, thanks ! Admittedly, I didn't think of looking at the URL .. but I see that works fine. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif As for substituting 'deptcity' with 'price', was that a guess?

Indeed - I must have been looking in the wrong place, I see it now.

Good tip on parsing the URL, I see that there are many international dests available this way, and it satisfies the OP's quset to reduce clicks.

I see that you can also use the common "multi-airports, one metro area" designators, such as "LON" to get "London All Area" without having to enumerate each 3 letter airport code.

This site is just another example of how AMAZING flyertalk.com is...thanks for all your help.

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Does anyone know of any new sites, or other ways to search for low fare by destination? I have used yahoo travel in the methods outlined, but I would like to know if anyone knows of anyother sites that do this kind of search...

thanks

This might not be what you're asking, but I often look at a website called http://www.air-fare.com. You may pick an origin city and it will give you a list of destination city (from this origin city) with lowest fare displayed - you just click the destination city you want and it'll tell you which airline and what fare codes are offered.

Hope this helps!
Jamester

Actually i didn't do very good job at explaining what i was asking..

I would like to select a city, and see prices for fares to this city from all the given cities in a region & less than a certain amount of money. Something like dream maps, but where you put in your destination and prices from different origins are displayed.

Does this make more more sense?

use this from Travelocity
 

use this link to get "best fares" to XXX. Not all airports are supported. http://search.travel.yahoo.com/bin/s...intl=us&dc=CVG