The New York Times compared four competing airfare “meta-search” engines, sites that crawl offerings from many airlines at once, so you don’t have to. Included were Kayak, Fly.com, Bing Travel, and Momondo, all which had similar but different results.
Kayak came up with pretty cheap results, and even included a nifty baggage calculator, which will definitely swing the cost of your travel depending on which airline you take. Bing Travel offered the same fare, minus baggage checker, but offered an interesting feature called the Price Predicator which algorithmically determines whether a fare is likely to go up or down in price over the next week.
Fly.com had the best bargain though, and even offered side-by-side comparison of economy and first-class seats. (I assume if you’re putting this much effort in booking your travel, you’re sticking with coach.) Last, Momondo, which is based in Denmark, searches for the cheapest way to get around Europe, and includes high-speed rail routes as well as airfare.
So there you have it: plenty of options for finding the cheapest airfare. Clearly, it still takes a little bit of digging, and if you’d really like to be frugal, why not try out two or three of these search engines at a time? Or maybe just wait until there’s a meta-meta-search engine that crawls all four of these for you.
Also see our guide to finding cheap airfare.
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