What websites do you use to buy your plane tickets?

[Anonymous]

Other than directly through the airline, what websites do you use to check fares and purchase tickets? I'm still living in 2004, when Kayak was all the rage. Help bring me into the modern air ticket buying era, please!

[Anonymous]

Kayak is fine

[Anonymous]

I still search on Kayak (and also check southwest in addition to that) but go directly to the website to book. Whatever search engine you are comfortable with is fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I still search on Kayak (and also check southwest in addition to that) but go directly to the website to book. Whatever search engine you are comfortable with is fine.

Same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Other than directly through the airline, what websites do you use to check fares and purchase tickets? I'm still living in 2004, when Kayak was all the rage. Help bring me into the modern air ticket buying era, please!

I never do this. No protection if something goes ary.

[Anonymous]

OP here - the problem I'm running into with kayak, is that it's automatically filtering out some flights that I know exist.

I'm trying to plan a "multi-city" trip. DC-Verona (requires one connection). The return flight (Rome-DC) has direct options, but they are not showing up. They show up in round trip searches, however.

But for multi-city, it's only showing me options for connections, since that's the only option for my outbound leg. And yes, I scrolled alllllll the way through all the "more options." The direct return flight isn't in the results!

[Anonymous]

I used to always use Kayak. A friend told me to use Google Travel and it actually worked better for a regional flight that I was looking at. I almost always fly United bc miles but will now look at Google Travel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - the problem I'm running into with kayak, is that it's automatically filtering out some flights that I know exist.

I'm trying to plan a "multi-city" trip. DC-Verona (requires one connection). The return flight (Rome-DC) has direct options, but they are not showing up. They show up in round trip searches, however.

But for multi-city, it's only showing me options for connections, since that's the only option for my outbound leg. And yes, I scrolled alllllll the way through all the "more options." The direct return flight isn't in the results!

That's because they're selling you a series of one-way tickets. They're not on the same itinerary than an airline will honor if something goes wrong.

So, for example, you miss you get to Verona but then your return flight has an issue -- you're screwed. And the airline is unlikely to help you.

Buy directly from the airlines. It's much safer.

[Anonymous]

I use google explore to find the flights, then book direct on the website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - the problem I'm running into with kayak, is that it's automatically filtering out some flights that I know exist.

I'm trying to plan a "multi-city" trip. DC-Verona (requires one connection). The return flight (Rome-DC) has direct options, but they are not showing up. They show up in round trip searches, however.

But for multi-city, it's only showing me options for connections, since that's the only option for my outbound leg. And yes, I scrolled alllllll the way through all the "more options." The direct return flight isn't in the results!

Not sure about Kayak, but Google Flights will show you all options for a search like that if you search multi-city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - the problem I'm running into with kayak, is that it's automatically filtering out some flights that I know exist.

I'm trying to plan a "multi-city" trip. DC-Verona (requires one connection). The return flight (Rome-DC) has direct options, but they are not showing up. They show up in round trip searches, however.

But for multi-city, it's only showing me options for connections, since that's the only option for my outbound leg. And yes, I scrolled alllllll the way through all the "more options." The direct return flight isn't in the results!

That's because they're selling you a series of one-way tickets. They're not on the same itinerary than an airline will honor if something goes wrong.

So, for example, you miss you get to Verona but then your return flight has an issue -- you're screwed. And the airline is unlikely to help you.

Buy directly from the airlines. It's much safer.

But I could complete all legs on the same airline! They do show up on United/Lufthansa, but not on Kayak. I still don't get why they can't all be purchased together on Kayak. But yeah, maybe I should just go through the airline.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here - the problem I'm running into with kayak, is that it's automatically filtering out some flights that I know exist.

I'm trying to plan a "multi-city" trip. DC-Verona (requires one connection). The return flight (Rome-DC) has direct options, but they are not showing up. They show up in round trip searches, however.

But for multi-city, it's only showing me options for connections, since that's the only option for my outbound leg. And yes, I scrolled alllllll the way through all the "more options." The direct return flight isn't in the results!

Not sure about Kayak, but Google Flights will show you all options for a search like that if you search multi-city.

And yes, as others said, use Google Flights to search, then book direct from the airline. For this routing it's almost certainly going to be United, with a short hop from Frankfurt or Munich on Lufthansa to get to Verona.

[Anonymous]

second google flights

[Anonymous]

I check google travel, kayak, and skyscanner

But I always book directly through the airline (s).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use google explore to find the flights, then book direct on the website.

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