I just booked a ticket today for the Labor Day weekend -- from Denver to Dallas online for $248! Not bad, IMHO. I first searched on AOL’s metasearch engine www.kayak.com, which searches over 120 airlines at once. I found most prices to be from $270 to $300 based on that. I wasn’t going to search the myriad of sites out there for hours either just to save a few bucks. Time is worth money, too. So I did it as efficiently and effectively as I could, using a couple of big name sites. I had just read an article today that said you can get cheaper flights by booking directly through the airlines, since many of the reservations through the other services charge that extra booking fee. I noted that most of the flights were on Frontier Airlines that I found in Kayak. Then, when I went directly to Frontier Airlines, which flies direct from Dallas to Denver, I was able to find the $248 that I eventually went with - a bargain! I’m satisfied enough with that. In less than 5-10 minutes, I had a ticket confirmed.
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Re: How booking direct instead of through the metasearch engines saved me a few bucks!
Thu, April 12, 2007 - 1:47 AMI use the same method usually checking kayak and mobissimo for my international flights. I've found the airline is cheaper around 50% of the time. I was booking a flight from Istanbul to Berlin for 6 people recently and saved around 40Euro/person by booking directly from the airline instead of mobissimo. (The tickets came to only 150Euro each!)