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What is the best website for searching for airplane tickets?

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So far I haven't found anything that tops google flights.

For fucking reals. It's so fast and has that map that shows the cost of flights to a lot of places through the nation. That's why I use it.

Every other website takes at least 10 seconds to display results.
 
ita is my preference for searches but you should be using more than one. sometimes a deal will be dead on one site but still active on another.
 
Kayak's hacker fares tend to be some of the most economical.

There are a few other websites that exploit reduced rates by finding you a flight where your ticket is from A-B-C with B as your actual destination. It works because A-B is $300, but A-C with a stop in B is $250.. so you get A-C for cheaper and never re-board to go B-C. Airlines hate this because it throws their logistics to shit, and generally sue and/or stop any entrepreneurial website that takes a stab at this - but you can still do it yourself with a little bit of research.
 
Virge_ said:
Kayak's hacker fares tend to be some of the most economical.

There are a few other websites that exploit reduced rates by finding you a flight where your ticket is from A-B-C with B as your actual destination. It works because A-B is $300, but A-C with a stop in B is $250.. so you get A-C for cheaper and never re-board to go B-C. Airlines hate this because it throws their logistics to shit, and generally sue and/or stop any entrepreneurial website that takes a stab at this - but you can still do it yourself with a little bit of research.
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Hidden City Ticketing.

http://thepointsguy.com/2014/12/united-and-orbitz-sue-site-focusing-on-hidden-city-ticketing/

Plus, Google Flights is licensing or has already bought out the ITA search engine. So the fares on both are mostly comparable.
 
Virge_ said:
Kayak's hacker fares tend to be some of the most economical.

There are a few other websites that exploit reduced rates by finding you a flight where your ticket is from A-B-C with B as your actual destination. It works because A-B is $300, but A-C with a stop in B is $250.. so you get A-C for cheaper and never re-board to go B-C. Airlines hate this because it throws their logistics to shit, and generally sue and/or stop any entrepreneurial website that takes a stab at this - but you can still do it yourself with a little bit of research.
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Wow, I'm surprised that the airlines don't collude with TSA to get this kinda thing shut down due to some 'security' loophole.

Sounds like a good deal depending on your local airport.
 
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Wow, I'm surprised that the airlines don't collude with TSA to get this kinda thing shut down due to some 'security' loophole.

Sounds like a good deal depending on your local airport.
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I'm gonna be using this website to check around now too. It's also fast!

I wish they weren't getting sued though. That really sucks.
 
that site isn't getting sued by the airlines it's getting sued by orbitz. they're suing because they have contracts with the airlines not to exploit those loopholes but that guy is an affiliate for them so he deeplinked to orbitz.

now orbitz gets complaints from the airlines. they ask him to stop doing what he's doing so they don't void their contracts. he says yes but then doesn't stop he actually adds in fancy redirects to hide what he's doing.

http://skift.com/2015/01/02/the-rea...d-united-suing-the-hidden-cities-startup-guy/

hidden city and some other loopholes have been around forever. we talked about this stuff back in march:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2373207
 
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