Web Consulting Washington DC

Here’s three sites I never leave home without checking first.

kayak.com
I start with this one. They are an aggregator of airline prices. They are not online travel agents like Orbitz, rather, they report pricing through a fantastic GUI, easy to use, and covers 250 some airlines.

Farecast.com
If you have flexiblity in your travel schedule, you may want to check this website out. It uses a modeling engine that estimates roughly when the lowest fare will likely happen in the near future. Started from a University of Washington research project, computer scientist Oren Etzioni has developed modeling engine that does pretty accurate job. Nice!

Yapta.com
Airfare prices fluctuate, and occasionally you can get a real deal if you’re there at the right moment. Once you’ve picked the an airflight and fare that you want, you can use this site to alert you to any price drops. If you already bought a ticket, go ahead an do it anyway. The real secret is that most airlines will give you a travel voucher for the difference if you tell them that you noticed that they dropped the price of your ticket.

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