Ask HN: What do you use to order airline tickets online?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531019

by jmtame • 17 years ago

6 7 17 years ago

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I'm using Kayak, any better ones out there?

Nogwater• 17 years ago

I just use the airline's website after shopping around.

tomaitch2• 17 years ago

That's what most people we talk to seem to do. Adioso is designed with this assumption.

whatusername2• 17 years ago

Quick bits of feedback.. We were looking at doing a quick trip to auckland soon.. my Melbourne to Auckland trip pulled up some great results. It was a bit confusing looking at the prices. You show the fare with taxes - then redirect to Virgin who show the fare without - before the booking screen for virgin that shows the taxes again. Out of your hands I know - but maybe a note saying $154 (including all taxes)

-- Emirates flights MEL-AKL can be awesomely cheap and would love to see you expand and include those. (Also - on Emirates -- their grid view of departure/return dates and prices is an awesome way to look at trips... (Although I did like the dropdown)

-- I'm a Gold Qantas FF -- so I've got some level of incentive to travel on qantas (have to for work - would choose to if the price is almost a wash personally).. I'd like to be able to search "Melbourne to Sydney on Qantas" and just pull back the QF flights... (means I can price shop on your site easier)[1]

-- Your font looks a little too big? Maybe that's just me. Looks like it would be huge in a low res though..

--Looks pretty nice though.. I guess the challenge is that webjet kinda owns this space in my mind - I will try and remember you next time I'm booking a flight though..

[1] Okay - I just noticed the edit tab on the side.. so I can pull these results up after the fact - but I can't just type them in.

mahmud• 17 years ago

Don't forget to keep an eye on browser cookies when you surf travel sites. Delete them often, or use a browser that lets you surf in secure "zones".

For me it's Attitude Travel and Asia Room for hotels. Shoe string baby.

sheatsb• 17 years ago

Farecast - http://farecast.live.com

It's prediction method is pretty accurate on timing when you should hold off/when you should buy tickets, and how ticket prices are distributed throughout the year. It also compares to the other budget travel sites (Hotwire, etc.).

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