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Flight finder by Google. Total cost across all airlines including taxes and fees. Can filter out long layovers, risky connections, and sort by number of connections. Perfect for finding the best flights to wherever you are going.
That's one where I spend a lot of time. Google's backend matrix here is a bit more complex but will get you even better results: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Once you find a cheap fare on google there are a number of other places to look to make sure its genuinely the best deal. Momondo.co.uk picks up fares from the cheapest agents.
Another option for those that are VERY flexible with the amount of stop-overs is lesser-known kiwi.com. They search a lot more options for each route than even Google and Skyscanner does. The deals I send out tend to be a max of 1-stop unless it's a vastly discounted fare on a 2-stop long-haul.
Also highly recommend the fare alerts on skyscanner.com. I have about 1000 of those set up so far :)
EDIT: One more - if you're booking with a foreign airline, always log into their local sites to see if you can get a cheaper price that way. They often will offer lower prices for locals, but it is perfectly legal to book using that method. A VPN connection is a good idea when looking at local sites. You can try tunnelbear, which has a chrome extension.
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This is the backend of many travel websites, run by Google. You can't book anything here, but you can look up flights and then go to the airline's website.
It lets you see when the cheapest flights are within a leave/return range.
Also, if you're really slick you can tweak Sales City (and internationally Currency) and sometimes find lower fares (try buying from poorer areas, especially your destination). If you can find a way to spoof your IP from that location, often the airline's website will show lower prices. Market segmentation is horrible.
Boil the Frog... The name is derived from being able to slowly alter the water temperature around a frog until it has gone from cold to hot without it realizing.
Basically you punch in two bands/musicians & the site builds a Spotify playlist that gradually takes you from one sound to the other.
Also, I'm currently trying to find the cheapest flight for the holidays & discovered older Reddit posts suggesting the ITA Matrix. Turns out it has tons of flight search customizations to really present a bevy of options.
Edit: Forgot to add The Wayback Machine – view decades old versions of different websites on specific dates. Bit of a trip.
Edit: Spelling
ITA MATRIX by Google is less known. They can't actually book flights for you, but they search for the best airfare.
skiplagged is also great. Great for hidden city ticketing as well. For example if I want to go from New York to Miami, it will search all flights that have a stop in Miami and you'll just get off in Miami and not continue to the final destination. Doesn't work if you have checked baggage of course but it has saved me loads so far.
Point of clarification: Google DOES have real-time flight status data, but it isn't on the linked site. If you type in the flight number into the search engine, it'll give you flight status. Google Now will also give helpful suggestions.
The linked site is for fares, and it is NOT real-time. Google heavily caches these results which is why it's so fast, but fares may not be valid by the time you get to it.
Google does also have a power-user solution called ITA Matrix for fare searching, which is great, but it's slow because that one IS indeed real-time.
Echte Profis benutzen https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Ist quasi das Backend von Google Flights mit jeder Menge suchoptionen. Einziger Nachteil ist, dass die Buchung nicht direkt da vorgenommen werden kann. Aber es gibt ne Seite in die man einfach das Suchergebnis rein kopiert und die einem dann die konkreten buchbaren Flüge findet.
Kayak's Flight Explorer is also a great tool if your travel dates and destination/departure airports are flexible.
Google's ITA Matrix is probably the best tool, in terms of flexibility, in my opinion.
FYI there are several websites that cover a lot of this:
I personally search all my flights through the ITA Matrix
I believe Google Flights is powered by ITA Software (after Google bought them).
ITA has a service called Matrix which is very powerful and comprehensive for flight searches. To get the most out of it you need to read up on how to do searches, but it's great if you don't necessarily want the fastest or cheapest flight.
e.g. if you want indirect flights with long stop overs because you want to spend a day somewhere, it's great. Or if you want to fly on a weird combination of airlines in weird classes to maximize your airline points.
It'll show you a lot of combinations of flights that other websites will filter out for being stupid or too similar to other flights.
Try the advanced, multi-city search using the ITA Matrix. They got bought by Google a few years ago and this is the tech that powers the Google Flights search. But this is still way more powerful. You can put in day ranges and it'll show you the prices for stays of varying lengths starting every day for a month.
The only downside is you can't directly book the flights though that site; you have to go to Kayak or another site and manually input the details. I used a browser plugin a few years ago that would feed the info to an Expedia search and let you book directly, but I don't remember what it was called.
While I don't exactly fit your specifications as a source of advice, I have moved between climate zones before and I would say that you might do well to leave Florida. Before you make that decision, do two things --
- Take inventory of your possessions. Gather your important documentation (birth certificate, Social Security bank accounts, etc) if you have any and put it in a thin waterproof container that might fit in a backpack. Go through your things and determine what you can sell or get rid of, and what you truly need to keep. Use the money from selling extraneous possessions as an emergency fund, or add it to a fund you may already have.
- The second step is to contact these relatives in Ohio. Do your best to answer their questions about your situation, even if they've heard about it through the grapevine, and ask how they would feel about having you stay with them. Emphasize that you don't want them to feel obligated, and that you would participate actively in their household -- that you won't be a leech on their funds and their livelihoods. If they give you the okay, inform your sister and plan out your departure. This site is really useful for air travel prices if you want to give it a try.
Hope this is useful.
I found https://www.theflightdeal.com to be the best when looking for flight deals to Europe and Asia. I also use google's ITA software matrix to plug in the dates found on flightdeal in order to find better deals: https://matrix.itasoftware.com
Hope someone finds these useful!
Matrixi on aivan ylivoimainen. Aina saanut halvimmat liput sieltä.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com
Kannattaa myös Norwegianin sivuilla käyttää koodia "ALLE26", jos siis on alle 26-vuotias. Joka lennolla on varattu jotakin 5 paikkaa alle 26-vuotiaille halpaan hintaan, joskus olen löytänyt parinkympin lentolippuja tällä tavalla kahden päivän päähän.
Hey there, I was reading this thread and am not a lawyer, but travel frequently and thought I might be able to offer some advice. These are the sites I use to find cheap flights when I travel: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ and http://hipmunk.com
Make sure to run your searches in incognito mode. Use the first site to cast a wide net - it will allow you to specify multiple origin and destination airports, as well as a flexible departure and arrival times. The second site sometimes catches deals the first one doesn't, for some reason. I usually use them in conjunction to eachother when looking for a deal.
AirBNB is good advice as far as accommodations go, but I think you might be able to save even more money if you look up hostels or couchsurfing alternatives. I stayed at a hostel in San Francisco when I was on vacation in California 5 years ago, and it was super cheap. I don't know if there are any hostels in Los Angeles, but it's worth checking.
Hope this helps! and good luck
Google Flights (dá-te preços de companhias, sem promoçoes de resellers, etc)
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ (kung-fu ninja shit com detalhes como pré-determinar a cidade de onde estás a comprar o bilhete - já que isso tem influencia no preço)
jetcost.es
ctrip.com (tenho apanhado bons preços aqui)
farecompare.com
kayak.com
Não recomendo NADA edreams - ignorem todos os resultados porque são todos baseados num CC que eles vendem.
Tanto o Skyscanner (recentemente comprado pelo ctrip…) e o momondo tem mostrado preços mais altos que os que refiro. Skiplagged é porreiro para os EUA.
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Put in your cities and length of stay (or vary it) and you can see the lowest prices.
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For advanced users, try ITA Matrix - https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Here let me help all of you with your travel "hacks". Be flexible, go off peak.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
https://bookwithmatrix.com/ (soooo good)
and if you just want some ideas on places to travel from a major city that are typically good deals.
Congrats you've now saved money.
I fly domestically 12+ times and internationally (always under $500 r/t for europe/asia) 2-3 times a year. I've been to over 40 countries scattered throughout the globe and those three are the most consistent despite the 72 other sites popping up claiming to do xyz as they are all just crunching the same data and loop holing something that might end up with you getting your trip denied or worse if you're a heavy traveler getting your status dropped/miles revoked for repeat offenses.
So why do we need another one of these sites?
I spend a lot of time in Google's backend matrix, it’s slightly more complex but gives you better results: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ tip - also try changing the sales city at the bottom and you may be surprised at the difference in price sometimes.
Once you find a cheap fare on google you should check other sites to see if you’ve really got the best deal, I use Momondo.co.uk for example which picks up fares from the cheapest agents.
If you’re flexible with the amount of stop-overs then also checkout kiwi.com. They search a lot more options for each route than Google and Skyscanner for example.
I like this site: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
It shows you all the airlines that operate flights between your selected cities and allows you to compare prices, times, aircraft types, layovers. All fairly well laid out. You cannot purchase tickets directly through the site, you will need to go to the airlines own site to book it. It also offers an easy way to send the "fare construction" to your travel agent if you use one.
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I would recommend caution f buying from "cheap online resellers" for flights, especially international flights. I recommend booking directly with the airlines. If anything goes wrong with your booking at any time, if you book with a third party (discount online booking place that you found a great deal through) then you will have to get ahold of them to fix the issue. If you book directly with the airline, you only have to deal with the airline which makes life easier.
Many cheap flights and packages are found online, however the low price you see is usually only for a selected flight, usually with horrible timings and bad connections. If your flight is important, book direct with the airline. if you dont really care about your trip, sure, book online.
I took a look, and similar to you I couldn't get the website to return anything for some random dates in June 2021 - so I took a look at regular flights to see what fare class they were selling in, and there are definitely flights available in the fare classes you need to use the companion pass for. Sometime the website can't handle certain itineraries and you have to do it with a phone agent (which isn't ideal right now since the waits are terrible).
Certain fare classes have to be available I or Z for First Class, W for Delta Comfort+, and L, U, T, X, or V for Main Cabin. You can do some pretty good searches for these using ITA Matrix, and I was able to find plenty of flights in June that have 2 passenger availability for those dates, so it may be worth calling to try to use it.
If you'd like to search on ITA Matrix on your own you can do so this way:
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
- Departing from: MGM
- Outbound Advanced Routing Code:
- Textbox 1: DL+
- Textbox 2: F BC=L|BC=U|BC=T|BC=X|BC=V|BC=I|BC=Z|BC=W
- Destination: SEA
- Return Advanced Routing Code:
- Textbox 1: DL+
- Textbox 2: F BC=L|BC=U|BC=T|BC=X|BC=V|BC=I|BC=Z|BC=W
A few years ago I flew quite frequently (enough so that I had oneworld lounge status, despite only buying bargain fares).
I always found I got the best price by using ITA Matrix and then booking directly with the airline for the flight I wanted.
You can't book directly through them (you have to book manually through the airline), but ITA Matrix is the most powerful and underrated flight search engine: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
You can see prices on a calendar, check prices in other currencies or countries, filter by airlines, pick the max number of layovers...
> ITA's air pricing engine is coded in Common Lisp. It's probably the most advanced air fare pricing engine around, often delivers better results than the airlines intended to sell. Was purchased by Google in 2010.
Can be used here: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
ITA Matrix
Die Technologie hinter Google Flights mit der Möglichkeit mehr Parameter einzugeben. Vor allem sinnvoll für Gabelflüge oder wenn es auf mehr ankommt als den niedrigsten Preis.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Die Buchung muss man dann allerdings außerhalb der Seite vornehmen. Dafür gibt's eine Seite in die man einfach das Suchergebnis reinpastet... Weiß allerdings nimmer wie die heißt.
Und nicht vergessen das CO2 zu kompensieren!
The best search engine for flights is ITA matrix. It is the software that provides the backend for Google Flights.
But it isn’t a booking site. So once you know the flights you will have to book them with the airlines.
Amarillo is usually expensive to fly out of. Southwest will have a good sale to Dallas about three times a year and then fly wherever else from Dallas.
If your dates are flexible, I use this website. It checks everything except Southwest and Spirit (because never fly Spirit).
I’ve even driven to OKC or ABQ to fly cheaper. So check Lubbock too.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Put in an airport that is pretty central to where you want to leave from, then the "Nearby" button appears. Set your range to the maximum and click select all.
It may take some time to search but it will find the cheapest flights to your destination.
Google Flights for sure, but if you need more sophistication, it's powered by Matrix by ita software, which you can access here (not as user friendly):
Honestly, yeah. I'm from California, in my bank account at the start of my trip a month and a half ago was US$6000. I went to Brazil first, and even in São Paulo I felt like a king. Now I'm in Argentina -- I overspent a lot on my trip to Iguazu, so I have to live "really frugally". Even despite this, I'm paying ~$500/month for my own (studio) apartment with a full bath in a decent area. I got dinner, steak with appetizer and a whiskey, whole thing under $30.
I definitely don't feel "rich" because I still think in terms of my own standards, but it really gives you a good perspective on other parts of the world.
If you would like to try to visit somewhere:
Contact everyone you know and see if they know someone there they can put you in contact with. Best case scenario you have a place to stay for free/cheap, worst case at least you have someone that can show you around or give you pointers on what to see. It's important to have someone, even if you aren't staying with them, because it can get really lonely if you're not the most social person in the world like me.
For flights, look on https://matrix.itasoftware.com -- I got my round trip ticket SF → São Paulo, Buenos Aires → SF for US$705. Now, both ways is basically a full day's travel, since because it's Air Canada I have to go by way of Toronto both legs. However, it's still hella cheap, and my money is more valuable than my time at the moment.
Learn as much of the language as you can. If you're with someone, you don't want to have to be overly reliant on them, and if you learn enough, maybe you can make friends there. Check out /r/languagelearning for tips.
Skyscanner for a first flight overview, https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ for more complex flights.
Then I check booking, hotels, expedia or airb&b for accommodation. For some countries I check the hotels directly as they sometimes offer rooms that are just a bit older or smaller and not listed on booking and co. Just did this for a Utah Nationalpark trip and saved a lot of cash on accommodation. Sometimes I just search for hotels or b&bs on google maps if portals only return really expensive hotels. I also often find good deals by searching in various other languages. Some people avoid big portals and only advertise in their own language. This way I found a private home on a finca on Teneriffe for $8 per night, access to pool and gym if I really want to.
Firstly, I have subscribed to your email and there are indeed some amazing deals to be had within.
My questions:
What is the best Star Alliance LHR/MAN/BHX - LAX one-way ticket you can find for me with departure on Jan 2,3 or 4?
Any tips for finding a good fare like #1 in the future?
I sometimes use ITA matrix to find fares. Once I find a fare, where should I go to actually purchase it?
Do you personally belong to any airline loyalty programs? If so, which ones and why?
Why are one-way tickets almost always more expensive than return tickets?
Norwegian Air is an international discount airline that recently moved into the US (similar to WOW Air). It's only based out of a few major cities (Los Angles, New York, etc.). The reason you don't see these prices is that they probably don't have a hub near you.
It's generally $400-600 to get a round trip from them. The tickets are $223 right now because they are trying to edge into the LAX market. Now when I say discount I mean you don't get to pick your seat, there isn't food/water on the plane, and you pay a ton for baggage. The last time I flew with them I had a broken seat and a broken TV.
Still, cheap flight tix are awesome! Check out https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ if you're looking for cheaper ones (use the "See calendar of lowest fares" option).
Use this ITA Matrix to quickly find most flights out of all potential airports for the days in question: https://matrix.itasoftware.com
Not all airlines are included in the search, but honestly, how many flights to the Middle East can their be out of OK and TX right now?
El tramo de Lax a Lima es el 7 o el 8? Según flightradar24 no hay LA601 desde LAX para el 8 link
Si fuese vos estaría llamando al 1800 que tienen allá hasta que te aclaren el tema de los horarios.
También no está de mas decirte que por un cambio de horarios involuntario tenés derecho a cambio de ruta. Yo aproveché una situación similar para sacarle una conexión al vuelo. Por ejemplo podrías hacer Lax Lim y lim cor directo. En la matrix ITA podes ver opciones mas cortas, estas en tu derecho que te metan en otro vuelo sin costo adicional. Si te interesa, filtrá por latam y American que ellos tienen codeshare, y listá por duración, anotá los números de vuelo y preguntá si tienen lugar para meterte.
I use Google Flights and Skiplagged, but I don't think the latter will help you get to Hawaii (basically you find longer, one-way flights and bail before getting on connecting flights.) Matrix Airfare search offers flexible flights, similar to google.
Sometimes it's cheaper to get one way flights to a different city, then make that your base. Flying to Dublin, for example, then to just about anywhere in Europe was cheaper than flying straight to destination last year.
Having flexible dates or checking nearby airports can help your bottom line. Good luck!
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
It’s the only site I’ve found that lets you select multiple origins to multiple destinations. Keep in mind that it doesn’t have all the low cost carriers so you might want to check Norweigan Air, Wow Air, etc…
Select a city in Europe (I would recommend something central like Zurich)
When you select a city, a “Nearby” button will appear to the right. Select your max distance and select all the airports
Search
Google's ITA Matrix can probably automate the process a little more. When you enter your "Departing From" airport, a link on the right side will appear that reads "nearby". Click on it, and it can generate airports up to 2000 miles away. Click the distance you're willing to travel (~300 miles will get you airports that are about 5 hours away), and then click "select all" at the bottom of the pop-up. That will automatically enter all airports within 300 miles of the one you first submitted. You can do the same with your destination airport.
Warning: when you search like this with the ITA matrix, most of the time is will automatically select the cheapest flight pattern, which means you depart from Aiport A but arrive back at Airport B. If you are driving yourself to the airport and leaving your car there, this will present a slight problem but is not the end of the world. Many airports (especially within the same state) have fairly cheap shuttle buses that run between them, so check those out before you write off a travel plan entirely!
Best days to look for tickets is on the first monday of the month, they normally have a lot of specials offers. Always clean your cookies or use private browsing when looking for tickets. I like to use the https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ you can't buy tickets but its the best search engine for cheap tickets. I manage to find round trip to Puerto Rico from Bogota for 200 dollars when they are normally cheap for 430 and the normal price is 600. What I do is I check everyday in the search engine when I find a great deal go in private browsing and buy the tickets. I also sometimes use hopper.com when I don't have an specific date for traveling but their accuracy in the prices is not 100% that's the drawback. Hope this helps
I tried using the one my employer suggests (because it's integrated with our expense reporting — no names here, I'm sure you'll agree). Once. They started off listing pages and pages of 15 hour trips (it's 5 hours direct). Eventually I tweaked enough knobs to find a sane flight — or so I thought. Next morning I get email from them: We were unable to complete your booking; phone us to continue, and oh by the way, the flight has tripled in price since yesterday. I just said fgsfds, went back to using ITA Matrix (the nerd version of flights.google.com), and promptly found a flight better and cheaper than the original.
tl;dr internet wins again.
If you truly want JFK to RIT, Jet Blue is the obvious choice. Yah, they pretty much suck balls these days, but there's a direct flight between the two (several a day) and they tend to be cheap. Of course there's a good chance they'll have a 98 hour delay, because that's their model these days, a far cry from how it was around 2000-2005.
I've done Amtrak once, and obviously that puts you in to Penn Station circa 32nd and 7th; if you're looking to be in the city, that's not so bad. It's not going to be much cheaper than flying though, and you'll spend ~8 hours with no delays starting at 5:30-6:30am. If you wanna see the scenery on the 5/20 corridor and whatnot, it's not so bad. If you're looking to head up to Connecticut, out to Long Island, etc... not so good.
United flies direct to Newark and is usually pretty cheap, so if you're looking to head out towards Jersey that can be a plus. Also, the Newark Airtrain which ends up in Penn is seemingly less time consuming and annoying than the AirTrain from JFK to Jamaica than the E or the J/Z toward Manhattan (or the LIRR), though I think it might end up costing a bit more, I'd have to check.
I've never taken Greyhound and I think I'd probably rather die than do that. Greyhound is going to run you ~$45 this Wednesday as an example, Amtrak about ~$65, and I'd say the $20 is worth nicer seats and the ability to get up and walk around. Jet Blue is about ~$100 and United to EWR is ~$209. The airline prices are going to be higher because the ticket is 2 days away compared to if you booked it out further. Amtrak and Greyhound are less affected by close in booking.
See also: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/#view-flights:research=ROCNYC A few weeks out, JB, Delta, and United all run $109 to JFK, EWR, and LGA respectively.
Okay, here's where ITA Matrix comes in handy. Its advanced search fields let you narrow things down, including by connection airport and by connection time.
Europe, 1 stop: IKA-FCO-MEX, MEX-AMS-IKA. 3h40 connection on the outbound, 2h40 connection on the inbound. 1975 EUR pp.
Europe, 2 stops: IKA-VIE-FRA-MEX-MUC-VIE-IKA. 3h10 and 2h50 connection in VIE and FRA, 2h10 and 1h25 on the way back. 1649 EUR pp.
Don't go through Europe: IKA-DXB-GRU-MEX and reverse (with an overnight in GRU on the outbound). 1337 EUR pp.
How to search:
Go to ITA Matrix.
From:
IKA, To:MEX, MTY, GDL, TIJ(I chose the four intl airports in the north and central).Click advanced controls.
Outbound routing codes:
~iah,lax,jfk,mia,iad,atl,mco,ord,sfo,dfw,bos,ewr,fll(no USA airports). The number of times you repeat that string is the number of connections you'll allow (1 = once, 2 = twice, etc). To generalize, the~means "don't connect" at the list of airport codes after it.Outbound extension codes:
minconnect 1:00; maxconnect 6:00.Put same routing and extension codes in the inbound.
"See calendar of lowest fares", departing: "07/07/2018", length of stay: "30-36" (to allow for +/- 3 days around the 10th).
To avoid Europe, just add major European hubs onto that long list of routing codes (I think I used ~FRA,VIE,MUC,LHR,CDG,AMS,FCO,ATH as my list). When you add the Europe restriction, you can remove the maxconnect restriction.
Maybe try https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ The website allows you to specify several departing and destination airports. Furthermore, it allows you to search for flights plus/minus 1 or 2 days before/after your preferred outbound and return date and so on. Depending on how many conditions you set the results may take some time. But all in all this website should give you the cheapest flights possible.
Aggregator sites like Kayak usually have deals worked out with the specific airlines and get a feed directly from them. Web scraping is also a possibility, but many small-time operations like flight deals newsletters use ITA.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/#view-flights:research=TSFDME-DMETSF
If you have to add in additional parameters, set the dates to the ones that I provided and it should show up.
Honestly, I'd eat the extra $7 and fly into DME if that's where your friends will be.
using ITA Matrix (it powers Google Flights but has more options when used directly, but is slower) I see Glasgow to Hartford on varies dates, returning from boston logan to birmingham (uk) is £466 or so , flying with Aer Lingus. It involves a change in Dublin. screenshot
tell me your exact required dates, and preferred airports and i'll see if i can narrow it down further.
ALSO you need an ESTA to enter the US assuming you are on a UK passport - be sure to get that applied for RIGHT FUCKING NOW. It's recommend to apply 72 hours before departure. Apply at https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/
https://www.google.no/flights/#search;f=OSL,TRF,RYG;d=2016-12-14;r=2016-12-18;mc=e
or
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
I am sure you have tried both, but in case you have not here are some options.
on Delta! :-D I also periodically check this website
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ --> you can't buy the flights directly from the website it provides you an avenue to check a bunch of airlines at once.. and then you go to for example (delta) if the flight was in delta and buy it. Have fun and good luck!
I had a friend find the same prices in flights from Austin to all over Europe.
- Buy early
- Check out Skyscanner and Matrix in incognito mode
- Sometimes SQ will have its own promos so do check out their FB page or their website.
I bought really cheap tickets to Korea for next year's CNY despite it being a busy period. And on Korea Airline's own site some more - after finding that it was cheaper than the ones available on Skyscanner.
Are you using Google Matrix ITA? You can search using a calendar of the lowest fares.
I've also had luck using the Hopper app. It allows you to save flights+dates and sends you notifications about when to book.
Lets look at return trips in May 2016, 5-9 days:
London -> Thailand: €509 with 1 stop, €670 nonstop
London -> Colombia: €590 with 1 stop, €674 nonstop
As you can see, the prices are not that different.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Najlepsza online wyszukiwarka lotów. Składnia wymaga pewnego nauczenia, ale jeśli kogoś nie interesuje najtańsza oferta, ale trochę droższa, ale z jakiegoś powodu lepsza (dłuższa czy krotsza przesiadka, omijanie jakiś lotnisk, tylko pewne linie, bez code-shares, bez nocowania w drodze, albo właśnie ze stopover), albo chce zobaczyć dostępnośc taryf, czy szczegóły taryfy i multum jeszcze innych rzeczy, to nie ma to równych, a wyświetlanie "time bars" to już w ogóle miodzio. Oczywiście problem jest potem to kupić, ale biuro podróży powinno to na ogół (choć nie zawsze) załatwić.
Just one more reason to always book through a company and not use a third party site. Matrix.itasoftware.com is an excellent resource for finding the cheapest flight.
My friend swears by ITA. She and her husband flew to Ireland, round trip, for less than $1,000 total. She said that you’d have to be flexible with some aspects but if you’re not on a tight schedule, not as strict about your destination, then it helps save you money.
What you need is called an open jaw ticket. You fly from ORD to VYR, and then from ANC back to ORD. You can use the web site called ITA matrix to look at possibilities. https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ Once there, select multi-city
I got one from an online article, it works everywhere in the world.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ Though the look is poor it gives cheaper tickets. The article link : https://www.tripoto.com/trip/i-have-flown-199-times-and-i-am-telling-you-my-secret-to-booking-the-cheapest-flight-5afa74ee5c89c?fbclid=IwAR0xAn9sok-FYrLHHztpuN0Ixy42SSR03rW7hR1nLLv57l5ih-SQ8MStfBs
> If anybody plans to attend...do you have any intel on cheapest flight from the US over there? I’d be flying out of Chicago.
use ita matrix. it accepts comma separated lists of source/destination airports, and you can view 30 days worth of flights with hyphen separated numbers of days (ex: 8-12 days).
i don't know what the relevant airports are for you in chicago, but for the destination you would put NRT,HND (this is narita and haneda, the two big tokyo area airports). if you're interested in getting the full japan experience and going all over honshu while you're there (this is the main island) you can also check out KIX as well (this is kansai airport, and it's near osaka, which isn't super close to yokohama, but isn't unreasonably far away either. it's an hour and a half to two hours by shinkansen).
i don't have any prior go fest experience, and haven't been to yokohama before (other than being on a shinkansen that stopped there for a minute before going to the next city) but have been to japan twice. if you have any japan questions, feel free to ask (preferably here in this thread rather than via pm since whatever questions you can come up with, others are probably wondering the same thing).
something to be aware of, if you want to get a japan rail pass, you MUST order that from home, and with enough lead time that you have the voucher in hand before you get on the plane. the rail pass is AWESOME.
i've been watching japan flights for early august, and at least for my area, the prices kind of suck right now.
This is the best flight search engine publicly available. It shows market prices of tickets and availability, but you can't book tickets. For that you need to go to airline sites.
Check out https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ for flights. It's what I use whenever I research airfare. It will give you almost every conceivable route and airline to where you want to go. It's a pretty powerful tool. Only caveat is you cannot book through the site, you'll have to go through the airline. If you find a better price on Expedia or something call the airline and see if they'll price match. Always better to book directly with airline over third party.
Have a look at a site called "ita matrix software" (I think). On the train/mobile so I can't link it right now. It gives a good perspective of flight prices across so many airlines.
Edit: Bit late but here is the link.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
You should have bought tickets months ago though. Prices always go up during the holidays.
If you're flying international, look at the Yokota/SeaTac/Mildenhall/Ramstein (whichever) Space-A Facebook pages to see when the Patriot flies.
Oh god, I could go on about this for hours. [The Flight Deal](www.theflightdeal.com) is a good place to start for newbs. They post specific airfare deals and lay it out pretty clearly how to find them. For more experienced people, the Mileage Run message board and ITA Matrix are great tools as well. I usually always use the ITA Matrix when I'm planning any travel. Notable rountrip tix I've book include $80 Philly to Vegas, $400 Newark to Copenhagen, and $400 Philly to Dublin.
Google flight matrix is pretty good to find a cheap flight, but it takes some effort to really learn how to search for the good deals (https://matrix.itasoftware.com/).
If you want hotels/package deals, I think most of the travel deal sites are pretty similar and timing is usually how to get the best deal. I like to go places during the month before their high tourist season. Things are cheaper, rooms are easy to get, and the tourist sites aren't jam packed.
Yep! Google designed it. https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ is what I use. It often shows me flights under what Kayak shows me, especially if my dates are somewhat flexible. There's also just their basic Google Flights tool, but it's a little more rigid.
Delta's a fine airline. I believe they have fees for checking baggage, but they're reasonable.
for long international flights:
- select a middle seat while booking. so most couples, families will opt out. if the flight is not full you will get probably the entire 3 seat to sleep
- cheapest flights are usually 45 days before journey. use https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ for complex booking options/dates. no crappy ads and 10 MB payload pages
- mention you are diabetic or veg. your food arrives first. but then you cant enjoy drinks and then food.
- carry a mobile charger or backup battery all time. charge mobile during stopovers
- carry a pullover. international flights are super chilly
- check airport site before travel to see where you get places in airport to sleep
- avoid using airport wifi unless urgent
- a neck pillow is a bliss. you will get good sleep
- have chamomile tea without milk to make you drowsy and get sleep
- most flights have cheap wine. vodka quality is ok. whisky and beer is usually standard
- ensure there is 3 to 4 hours if you have a connecting flight. ensure your seat is near door so you have quick exit for immigration and connectivity
- if you have time take flights via places which offer on arrival visa. visit the place. turkey, south korea, indonesia and some countries.
- carry your watchlist movies in your mobile
- some credit cards like amex, icici, jet offer lounge access in 2 rs on indian and international airport
- visit https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ for more tips
Check out Google's Flight Matrix and try moving things around a bit to find the best flights. It might be cheaper to fly out of a nearby airport for example or move the day you come back etc.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Also try flights.google.com
As others have said just plug in the dates of when you will travel to get an idea of the range of the cost of airfare. AirAsia, Tigerair, Jetstar, and Scoot will be the lower cost airlines.
Here is a Seven day round trip flight from Boston to London for $370. I'm not sure where you are, but flights to Europe have never been cheaper. You should at least look into it.
Yup, sorry, hardcore frequent flyer...
- EMD = Electronic Miscellaneous Document
- vMCO = virtual Miscellaneous Change Order
- OTA = Online Travel Agent
- ITA Matrix = The flight tool of the Gods
Yo uso skyscanner y y el matrix airfare search. Si sale muy caro y tienes ganas de andar posiblemente dando vueltas por ahorrarte unos euros, puedes probar buscar vuelos redondos a aeropuertos grandes con vuelos directos al DF ( Paris, Londres, Munich, Frankfurt, Madrid, por ejemplo ) y de ahí ver si te conviene tomar otro medio de transporte para llegar a Barcelona. Casi nunca conviene pero igual y te sale algo.
Por ejemplo, igual y encuentras un vuelo redondo barato a Madrid o a Londres, igual y te sale mas barato comprar ese y luego tomar un vuelo de aerolinea barata ( tipo RyanAir o EasyJet ), un autobus, un tren o deplano un blablacar hasta Barcelona. A veces llega a funcionar, aunque definitivamente es mucho mas trabajo ( buscar y andar haciendo la conexión entre los viajes, sobretodo si ya vienes madreado por el primer viaje ).
Use this search tool to find a deal by specifying your destination airport as well as anything within [x] miles. You can also make your departure variable, as well as the date. Has helped me out a lot in trying to find flights, as sometimes it can be cheaper to fly to a different city and then to go from there. Also can be cheaper to fly on mondays, etc. Their calendar and ability to leave everything open should allow you to find deals much easier than by searching through each possible route and time individually.
Google's ITA flight matrix has always served me well. For the smaller airlines that aren't a part of aggregate websites like sky scanner, ITA, and Kayak, I recommend looking at whatever airport's websites you want to fly into/out of and see if there's a common carrier. If so, goto their websites and see what their costs are for the flights. It takes more leg work but I've found flights as much as a couple hundred US dollars cheaper than others.
I really like ITA Matrix as you can select a calendar of lowest fares over a month at a time. Flying on a Tuesday is often very preferable, as compared to a Friday or Sunday. Mid-October is not a bad time to fly, but avoid Columbus Day weekend if possible, as fares are more likely to be higher with people off for the holiday.
I've heard numerous reports that say anywhere between 47-54 days is the best time to buy domestic air fare. It's in the middle between "people who planned an early vacation" and "last minute business travellers".
Try spoofing your location so that it looks to the booking system like you're buying from your destination country. Airfare can vary depending on where you happen to be when you book the ticket. Check out https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ to see it in action, just set the Sales City to your destination. Buenos Aires often turns up a dramatic difference, but YMMV.
Unfortunately, most cheap ticket deals/tricks are really only applicable to domestic flights. International flights are another game, and a rigid one. My suggestion is to fly during off-seasons, not during holidays or common times people take vacation. Fly mid-week if possible, when costs are down. Is it cheaper to drive to a big city and fly from there? Sometimes, but think about parking costs as well. Maybe public transport would be cheaper, but as the other responder says, it's probably not a vast difference, all things considered. There will of course be a tradeoff with time spent getting to an airport that isn't near you, but it's worth it to look into alternate nearby airports. I usually take the same flight (Manchester/New York) now that I've done it often enough, but I have travelled extensively abroad and I like a combination of Kayak.com and ITA Matrix which was bought by Google:
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
That's a nice site for statistics on prices. Also, in general, for international flights, there's no magic window for finding the best price. The earlier you book, the better. Sometimes you'll see prices go down right after you book, this is typical; but if you wait until the last few weeks, you'll be paying the highest fare, guaranteed.
Seems to be a connection in korea
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Fare for 1 adult
Fare 1: Carrier KL IS50AEN2 AMS to FUK (rules)
Passenger type ADT, round trip fare, booking code I, Z
Covers AMS-ICN (Business), ICN-FUK (Business)
€2,340.49
Fare 2: Carrier KL OS57OBN2 FUK to AMS (rules)
Passenger type ADT, round trip fare, booking code Z, O
Covers FUK-ICN (Business), ICN-AMS (Business)
€1,090.49
Carrier-imposed surcharge (YQ)
€27.58
South Korea International Psc Departure Tax And Global Disease Eradication Fund (BP)
€14.78
Netherlands Passenger Service Charge (RN)
€16.47
Netherlands Dutch State Tax (VV)
€7.85
Netherlands Security Service Charge (CJ)
€12.72
Carrier-imposed surcharge (YR)
€300.00
Japan Passenger Service Facilities Charge International (SW)
€7.50
Japan International Tourist Tax (TK)
€7.66
Subtotal per passenger
€3,825.56
Number of passengers
x1
Subtotal For 1 adult
€3,825.56
This ticket is non-refundable.
Fare Construction (can be useful to travel agents)
AMS KL X/SEL OZ FUK 2711.38IS50AEN2 OZ X/SEL KL AMS 1263.30OS57OBN2 NUC 3974.68 END ROE 0.863211 XT 12.72CJ 16.47RN 7.85VV 14.78BP 7.50SW 7.66TK 27.58YQ 300.00YR
Total Airfare & Taxes
€3,825.56
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ITA Matrix is probably what you're looking for, but if you're apparently not going to be able to use any of the flights in the first place it's not like it's going to make a whole lot of difference.
This is a software I’ve been using for years to get together a flight that I like and is within my price range. Then I take this to a travel agent and they’ll book the flights I chose at the price I want. Because they have special access to booking that we don’t haha
You might checkout ITA Flight Matrix. You can't actually buy tickets through it, but there are sites that will help you with that part. If you find an airfare on Flight Matrix and you can't figure out how to book it with the airline, a travel agent could do it.
Depends. Where are you departing from? Some metro areas like New York City and Tokyo have their own three digit codes. NYC for New York City (home to JFK, EWR and LGA) and TYO for Tokyo (HND and NRT).
Matrix has the ability to search nearby airports too. It's a powerful consumer level tool. https://matrix.itasoftware.com
It's a bit of a pain, but you can use the ITA Matrix to search for flights by specific fare classes, which should help you narrow it down. If I recall correctly you would want to put "DL+ /f bc=l|bc=u|bc=t|bc=x|bc=v" under "Outbound routing codes" and "Return routing codes." This was really helpful as I was trying to use my companion certificate last year but kept running into the issue you're describing.
I typically run parallel searches on Google Flights and Kayak. If there are cities that most flights have layovers in, I’ll see if I can get a cheaper price by breaking it up into 2 round trips (home<->city a, city a<->destination). Skyscanner is good for European flights. I know it’s probably superstition but I typically use a different browser than normal with all trackers disabled, might not do anything but I figure it can’t hurt. This is another software I use, it’s a good starting point to find out the cheapest departure/arrival airports in a general area.
Ik heb 3 soloreizen gemaakt. De eerste naar de balkan: Slovenië - Kroatië - Bosnië & Hercegovina - Kroatië. De tweede naar Thailand en Cambodja en de derde naar Georgië.
Hoe begin je aan je eerste solotravel? Wat ik deed is vantevoren wat onderzoek doen naar de landen: hoe goedkoop is eten/slapen, hoe makkelijk is rondkomen met het OV, wat zijn de leuke plekken om te bezoeken, etc.
Voor hostels: Hostelworld, Hostelz, booking.com als het echt niet anders kan.
Eten/drinken/dingen te doen/zien: vooral Tripadvisor, maar ook /r/travel , /r/solotravel , /r/backpacking .
Dan stippelde ik een route uit, gewoon een losse planning met wat ruimte voor verandering van plannen. Vooral Hostelworld is hier heel geschikt voor omdat je vaak voor een euro ofzo meer bij reservering kosteloos kan annuleren.
En natuurlijk vluchten, hier gebruik ik vooral https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ voor (en dan boeken bij de luchtvaartmaatschappij zelf), maar soms ook Skyscanner of Momondo.
En dan de voorpret :D Ik vind het zelf altijd heel leuk om wat van de taal te leren, wat enorm helpt als je met het OV reist. Vooral in Georgië was het superhandig dat ik gewoon de bestemming van de marshrutka's kon lezen, en dat ik provisorisch in het Russisch de weg kon vragen. En in Thailand was het grappig om te zien dat ze toeristen aan het 'oplichten' waren (de prijs was goedkoper voor Thaise mensen bij een bepaald tempelcomplex)
I used IAT Matrix https://matrix.itasoftware.com to plot a 6800 MQD run from JFK tomSEA and back for about $650. Combine the search there with Book With Matrix https://bookwithmatrix.com to put it together on one ticket (thanks to lifehacker for that website).
But the best bang for your buck if you need more than that is booking Premium Economy on Virgin Atlantic to Hong Kong or Shanghai which yields about 27K MQMs and 4000 MQDs from JFK. Spent a weekend doing that to bump to PM.
I plan pretty far out in advance (luckily my schedule is set quite far in advance), and often look for direct flights when that's possible. I usually use matrix.itasoftware.com to search (since the search can be customized in a tons of ways), sometimes other search engines. The more you do it, the easier it gets. Also, everybody discovers their own preferences (early or late flights, where they like to sit on a plane, airports they prefer to avoid).
Kayak.com is a decent site to check cheap fares or the https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Also, one thing I have done is to buy the one way ticket with 1 paycheck and with the next available paycheck get the return flight. For my trip to Prague, round trip was ~650$ and I got 2 one way tickets ~300$ each.
Do you have or have thought about a Costco membership? I've booked two separate PR vacations through Costco Travel and been very satisfied both times. A Costco package will take care of you from boarding your flight state side all the way through departure day. Might look more expensive on the surface, but including airport transportation and an excursion can potentially save you money overall.
Another alternative is book separately. I've also flown Southwest to PR twice and been happy with the flights. Southwest doesn't publish or share fares with booking sites so the only way to find their pricing is to search directly.
Searching Google Flights is the fastest way to get an unbiased easily searchable list of flight prices for the other major airlines. If you want an even more powerful flight search tool, you can use ITA Matrix to really look at your options in detail
AirBnB is doing very well on the island and there are a plethora of places to choose from that give you more flexibility and support the local economy more than staying in a chain hotel. You can book everything from a private residence to condo stays on some of the same resorts that would normally run you multi hundreds of dollars a night for a fraction of that.
First book early. Start looking 11 months out and try to book by at least 6 months out.
Airfare. Try to be flexible to get the best price. Use Matrix ITA and google flights. Change your origin & destination city. e.g. Bristol is not too far from Bovington. Check flying to one city and back from another. Change your start & end date, add/remove a day, etc... Saving $200 / ticket is huge for 4 people.
Compare AirBNB to similar hotels. See if you can stay further from downtown for cheaper & check out transportation options.
I have booked trips where we drove 3 hours, stayed in a hotel near an airport with free parking, took an early morning flight for super cheap and still saved $900 including gas, hotel & dinner. Another time, stayed in a nice hotel in a smallish town that was a 30 minute train outside the city and saved $1000.
Erm...
Kayak, Kiwi and all of these websites just sell what they want. In no way do they provide flight schedules, they just sell tickets for most flights at prices they continuously update and modify according to demand.
The way to search flight schedules is https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ These guys do not sell tickets. They just search the flight schedules, and provide prices they find (probably some default airline pricing). But you can't buy the ticket for that price from them - they will provide a series of codes you should provide to a travel agent at a ticket sales company (or a ticket agent of one of the airlines operating the flights) to construct your fare and tell you what price it's actually selling at. It's not a good way to get a cheap ticket, but it's a good way of finding out what flights actually exist.
They were bought by Google and "Google Flights" uses their engine, so you can also use that, but GF also sells tickets (through referrals) so they also might be filtering the results somewhat, not sure about that.
In response to your original question, noone flies direct to the US year-round. There is a "seasonal" = May through ~September? flight from Philly to Prague operated by American and codeshared by Finnair and British Airways, and another one from JFK operated by Delta and codeshared by Air France and Czech Airlines. As far as I know those are your only non-stop options USA->Czech republic.
Others in the thread have suggested sensible options as well - fly to Vienna (or Munich, or less conveniently but possibly cheaper to Warsaw) and then get to Prague. If your cats need a break just get a hotel in that city and travel the next day. AFAIK All of these cities have airline connections to PRG multiple times a day, roughly an hour long flight). Or take a bus or train (Vienna is best for trains, Warsaw and Munich I'd look for buses).
Delta shouldn't pass-through fuel-surcharges for Korean, and Korean Air is one of the few airlines that AF/KLM won't pass along fuel surcharges for.
You can estimate the fuel surcharge by checking ITA Software's Matrix if you want to try booking through Korean itself (I think Korean does stick you with the fuel surcharge for award tickets).
Go on https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ and find your route there. The booking classes can easily be seen and if the price more or less matches the one on the third party site, the booking class is often the same.
Figure out what airports are convenient for you - this could be 1, this could be 3.
Figure out what airlines fly out of that airport - some discount airlines do not publish their flight prices into certain flight search tools (I am an old school matrix.itasoftware.com user , which is the technology behind Google FLights). I am from Boston, and nearly all the airlines flying into/out of Boston do so, whereas if I were someplace where Southwest Airlines was much bigger, I would be much more limited by those tools. This is true for places in Europe where discount airlines like RyanAir flight out of. You may want to get on the email lists for any such relevant discounters.
Watch out for local holidays before booking a flight - you might want to check hostel/hotel availability and pricing before booking (trying to visit Munich on the first weekend of October is an example of where the room/bed pricing is going to be higher than usual). I tend to book my flight, and then worry about accomodation
For flights, the Matrix ITA tool is excellent. You can set a range of dates, durations and differing departure and destination airports. You could also subscribe to Newsletters like Jack's Flight Club UK and Scott's Cheap Flights. Finally, for accommodation airbnb might be helpful.
Go to: https://matrix.itasoftware.com
One way.
Starting point...Franfurt. Then click Nearby. Choose 1000 miles. Make sure all airports are selected.
Destination: AUS, SAT, IAH
Then click "See Calendar of Lowest Fares"
Choose the earliest you would want to leave.
Click search.
It will pull up any airport with 1000 miles of Frankfurt to Austin, San Antonio or Houston over a course of a month. Choose the cheapest.
If you don't want to go to SAT or IAH, then just leave Austin on there.
Profit.
There isn't one cheapest place to fly from. It depends on a lot of factors.
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ lets you do proximity searches. The only thing it can't do is buying tickets. Once you found the airport and the flight turn to https://www.google.com/flights or your favorite travel agent to buy the tickets.
> 530 in fees
Uh no. That's probably one ticket outright paid cash. Where in JP are you wanting to fly to?
I started looking for a flight early, and kept looking every couple days (on multiple sites) until that deal came up. I ended up finding it via this site: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/ , it allows you to sort of throw out a net and see what deals you get for a range of dates and destinations. Initially all of the deals I was finding had super long layovers.. After a couple weeks of this I stumbled on a flight that starts in Toronto, has a 29 hour long layover in Hong Kong, the other layovers were more than reasonable, and on the return leg has an extra flight at the end to my home town (from Toronto). I had never been in Hong Kong before so I figured.. what the hell, I'll book the relatively cheap flight, I'll get to spend some time exploring HK, it still leaves me with more than enough time to fit in a hike to Everest Basecamp in Nepal and do everything I wanted to do there.. and in the end I end up in my hometown and don't have to take the bus or train. In the end it turned out working very well
Key is to start looking early, get a good sense of what a good price might be, and the more flexible you are with your origin, destination, and timeframe, the more of a chance you have of finding a good deal. By the way, you can't book any flights via the site I linked, but there is a site that can help with that (just google it)
Since your flying domestic I would suggest the cheapest. If you want a better flight, I hear good things about Southwest.
Lastly, and I use this tool mainly for int flights but it should work great for domestic to... Use this to find a ticket for cheapest rates : https://matrix.itasoftware.com
See if there is a more reputable airline available.
Use this tool:
https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
But, if that is a direct flight. Its worth the risk. Go for it.
Like I said, with modern air travel. Have a back up plan and prepare to be stranded. Then you have nothing really to lose accept some time. Once you buy a plane ticket, no matter which airline, there is always a small chance they won't fly. Weather, equipment, computer issues. Happens every day.
Use this site to track flight prices: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Play around with the filters like dates and stops. Check the other major airports around you also. I checked that site almost daily for 2 weeks or so in January and got an October LAX->NRT for $650 nonstop roundtrip with Singapore Air.