Comments on: I Can’t Find an Inexpensive Flight

By: dan

dan — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:49:12 +0000

have you tried Trabber? is a quite good search engine that aggregate information in real time. Here is the address: http://www.trabber.com

By: MJB

MJB — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:58:26 +0000

Jet Blue is really the most inexpensive coast to coast. Vary your return date and you could fly as low as $229 round trip.

By: Catch a Gideon

Catch a Gideon — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:52:49 +0000

I find that over the past year the number of flights has been reduced so much its rediculous. I can rarely find a flight for under $300, when two years ago the same flights were about $150. Also every flight I’ve been on this year has been full.

By: John

John — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:06:59 +0000

Beside the price I would be careful using EXPEDIA. Just search for “EXPEDIA complaints” in Google or Yahoo and you will read horrible stories from people that used EXPEDIA.

Good luck

By: SWandy

SWandy — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:21:56 +0000

Try Travelzoo.com They publish the best 20 fares every week and you can get them by e-mail.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:16:46 +0000

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By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:22:10 +0000

Try JetBlue.

It looks like you can get a roundtrip for under $400 to Long Beach.

Good luck!

By: udandi

udandi — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:35:14 +0000

If you want to wait until 2 weeks before the trip to book, you could try http://www.site59.com

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:13:21 +0000

Have you tried looking at last minute deal sites? the one that comes to mind is lastminutetravel.com

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:06:23 +0000

May not work well for holiday travel, but occasionally I’ve seen folks trying to unload their frequent flier miles on craigslist.

I guess if people know they’re never going to use them they may be just trying to get what they can out of them and I’ve seen some bargains.

Not sure how the logistics of this would work out though, since you’re basically relying on them to “purchase” your ticket with their miles…

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:47:18 +0000

I’ve had good luck with ITA Software’s website for fare info. It won’t let you book there, but it’ll point you in the right direction. And you can mess with connections and dates to see how the airfares change.

beta.itasoftware.com

Oh, probably not a factor for the route you are looking at, but they don’t include all airlines (notably Southwest).

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:40:28 +0000

Have you given http://www.farecast.com a try? It attempts to show you *when* to buy your ticket, based on whether fares will drop or go up in the next few weeks. It’s a pretty neat concept.

By: Him

Him — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:02:05 +0000

If you can take another day off of work, try flying back on the Monday after Thanksgiving. We are flying that day instead of the Sunday and our tickets were much, much cheaper.

The travel agent we go through at work says you should book no later than Labor Day to get the good deals.