From Pauline Frommer - The 10 Best (and Worst) Airfare Search Sites
Oct-16-2015

There are three ways to find the best rates for airfares: OTAs (Online Travel Agencies) through which you can book directly; aggregators, or meta-search engines, which troll the databases of dozens of OTAs, booking engines, and airlines to return the best results; and the airlines' own websites.

Sometimes an OTA will turn up a rate the aggregators doesn't at first show (and vice-versa). Additionally, while you're unlikely to find a lower fare on an airline's own site, a quick visit could key you into sales announcements or other bargains you wouldn't know about from other sources.

We ran the top and most famous OTAs and aggregators through a battery of flight searches to determine who found the lowest prices overall as well as-where possible-the lowest fares on a direct flight. We tested each on last-minute flights (leaving within 72 hours) and APEX fares (booked six weeks out). We covered major gateways (NYC to LAX, Miami to Rio) and secondary ones (Philly to Rome). We even threw in a few curve balls (Denver to New Delhi) and included a flight with no North American legs (London to Barcelona) just to test how well each handled Europe's thicket of no-frills carriers.

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