Highly customizable flight search engine?
Oct 21, 2008, 7:51 pm
#1
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Highly customizable flight search engine?
I'm looking for a flight search engine for a multi-city itinerary that will allow me to customize alternate airports.
This is kind of complicated to explain, so hopefully I can make myself clear. Basically, I'd like to take a trip from NYC to ITH to TUL to NYC, but am willing to consider SYR as an alternate airport for ITH (even though they're not typically considered a pair) and OKC as an alternate airport for TUL, in order to save some money and hit my stops at the times I need to be there. This all gets further complicated by the fact that my last flight (TUL to NYC or OKC to NYC) can be on either one of two consecutive days, but the first two legs must be on certain days.
Is there any flight search engine that allows price comparisons with this level of customization? I realize I may be asking for the moon here
This is kind of complicated to explain, so hopefully I can make myself clear. Basically, I'd like to take a trip from NYC to ITH to TUL to NYC, but am willing to consider SYR as an alternate airport for ITH (even though they're not typically considered a pair) and OKC as an alternate airport for TUL, in order to save some money and hit my stops at the times I need to be there. This all gets further complicated by the fact that my last flight (TUL to NYC or OKC to NYC) can be on either one of two consecutive days, but the first two legs must be on certain days.
Is there any flight search engine that allows price comparisons with this level of customization? I realize I may be asking for the moon here
Oct 22, 2008, 1:43 am
#2
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Location: San Jose, CA
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I'm looking for a flight search engine for a multi-city itinerary that will allow me to customize alternate airports.
This is kind of complicated to explain, so hopefully I can make myself clear. Basically, I'd like to take a trip from NYC to ITH to TUL to NYC, but am willing to consider SYR as an alternate airport for ITH (even though they're not typically considered a pair) and OKC as an alternate airport for TUL, in order to save some money and hit my stops at the times I need to be there. This all gets further complicated by the fact that my last flight (TUL to NYC or OKC to NYC) can be on either one of two consecutive days, but the first two legs must be on certain days.
Is there any flight search engine that allows price comparisons with this level of customization? I realize I may be asking for the moon here
This is kind of complicated to explain, so hopefully I can make myself clear. Basically, I'd like to take a trip from NYC to ITH to TUL to NYC, but am willing to consider SYR as an alternate airport for ITH (even though they're not typically considered a pair) and OKC as an alternate airport for TUL, in order to save some money and hit my stops at the times I need to be there. This all gets further complicated by the fact that my last flight (TUL to NYC or OKC to NYC) can be on either one of two consecutive days, but the first two legs must be on certain days.
Is there any flight search engine that allows price comparisons with this level of customization? I realize I may be asking for the moon here
ex:
flight 1: origin: NYC
destination: ITH;SYR
Oct 22, 2008, 5:40 am
#3
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Try Kayak, multi-city, include alternate airports. Not sure if it will do what you need, but I've used it for flexible planning with alternate connection cities, layover durations, total flight times, etc.