How To Find Cheap airline tickets

Enter the Aggregators - they search dozens of sites to give you the best fare. I believe that one cannot deal with hundreds of links so this article will concentrate on what I consider to be The Top 5.

I have not addressed the tech aspects or merits or demerits of deep linking, spidering, scraping... in this context Mobissimo's slogan says it all ...we search you travel

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IMHO the best site is skyscanner.net - especially if you do not know where you want to go, you can see all outbound flights from a particular airport

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...we are not a meta-search engine which "scrapes" the data from other sites using HTML scraping or API's. Our system contains over 30 million airfares and we process millions of fare changes throughout the day. We provide information on our site to empower each user with tools normally only available to fare analysts at the airlines. Our goal is to provide the information you need to make the best informed decision before you jump to the airline site, online travel agency, or meta-search engine (Kayak, SideStep, Mobissimo) to finalize your booking.

You may find that Jetblue, Southwest and others do not allow their data to appear in the aggregators sites... or that they appear in one place but not in another. As always the technology develops as we speak ....you need to use your head as well as the keyboard or mouse.... :-)

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I find that the aggregator method is a useful way of narrowing down the flights and times and then it is good to check directly on the airlines sites for any specials or last minutes deals. This way it is possible to masker a clear comparison between the discounted prices offered by various providers.