Travel Tips
Buying Tickets
A list of sites to search for an air ticket
- Farecast now Bing Travel
- CheapTickets
- FareCompare
- Kayak
- OAG
- FareCompare
- AirlineConsolidator
- cFares
- TripAdvisor
Includes a fee estimator for baggage, on-board meals, etc.
While waiting for the flight
- Price Check
- Yapta
After purchasing a ticket mail it to flights@yapta.com and yapta
will tell you whenever the prices go down to claim a credit.
- Yapta
- Seat Selection and Trip Planning
- SeatGuru
Get reviews to pick us the best available seats. - checkmein
Paid service, currently restricted to few airlines, that checks in
as per user’s preferences when online check in begins. - TripIt
Mail your complete itinerary to Tripit which compiles it in a
single file with addition information that you might require
during the trip.
- SeatGuru
- Flight Status
- FlightStatus
- Flight Delay Information
- Flight Aware
- FlightCaster
Predicts flight delays.
- Miscellaneous
- FlyingFees
Find out about baggage policies and fees for various airlines.
- FlyingFees
Refunds
- MissRefund
Get something back even from a non-refundable ticket. Read more - Payoffs on overbooked flights
Hey there,
Just came across your blog. For cheap flights you should also take a look at cFares…its awesome
Thanks Lindsey. The rebate option is interesting. For frequent fliers it might add up to a considerable amount even after the membership cost.