Priceline.com

Most of you would have heard, the unique feature of priceline is that you can get deep discounts on Air Travel price if you are willing to take the risk of not knowing your arrival and departure times. Before booking the ticket, priceline will give you a range for arrival and departure time, but not a specific time. The actual time will be shown to you only after you book the ticket.

This is worthwhile if you are on completely flexible and have a day to travel from point A to point B. If you... [Read More]

Travelocity

Many times when you are booking travel, you are willing to leave a day late or come back a day early, if the price difference is good enough. In other travel websites, we have to do a separate query for each departure/arrival combination.

Travelocity has this neat feature where it will give a grid of prices based on deparature and arrival dates - date you asked for, one day before, one day after. It is a great engine to search for travel prices if your itenary isn't fully formed.

Orbitz.com

Compared to the other online travel websites, Orbitz is collectively owned by all the airline companies. Hence, I have found some lower prices here than even expedia. More importantly, you can sometimes find tickets in Orbitz, that might not be available elsewhere. For our European vacation, we bought our airline ticket in Orbitz. They also have a neat feature where they email or SMS you close to your travel times. Pretty neat.

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Expedia.com

Expedia is my favourite online travel booking site mainly because of the ease of use of their site. A few tips

1. Create an account with the correct email address etc. They are reputed company and don't spam you. If you give this never used email address, it makes life complicated for you.
2. Input your frequent flier miles once so that it automatically adds that information to every ticket you purchase without you having to dig through that every time.
3. They also have a phone sales feature, w

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