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If you've got travel plans for the upcoming holiday season, the time to book your tickets is now . The question is, where can you find tickets cheap enough to offset the extra $40 you'll have to spend to check your bags and enjoy a snack on your six-hour flight. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite travel web site for cheap tickets, and today we're back with the five most popular answers. Keep reading for a breakdown of the best travel sites on the block, then cast your ballot for the one you like best. Photo by alex-s . NOTE: In an completely unscientific test of each site's budget accommodation bologna prices, I ran a search for a round trip ticket from Los Angeles to Omaha (my most frequent budget accommodation bologna flight) departing on November 15th and returning on the 22nd. I'll end each site's description below with the result.
Kayak is a travel search aggregator, scouring over 140 sites to bring you the cheapest fares it can find. The results are nicely sorted by price, and once the search is complete, you can tweak and filter the results to find the perfect ticket for your needs. Kayak supports email alerts, can search nearby airports, and the Buzz feature is great if you're looking to take a spur-of-the-minute vacation on the cheap. Like most travel budget accommodation bologna sites, Kayak also covers hotels, cruises, budget accommodation bologna and rental cars. My Flight: $207.
Yapta —aka Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant—is an airline search engine with an emphasis budget accommodation bologna on tracking airline prices before and after you purchase your tickets. Before your purchase, Yapta will track a flight and alert you when it falls below your desired price (a feature available on most of the sites featured here). After your purchase, Yapta will continue budget accommodation bologna tracking budget accommodation bologna the ticket price. If it drops, the site will send an alert if you're eligible for a refund or travel credit. budget accommodation bologna If you're a big Yapta fan, you can even integrate it in your browser with the previously mentioned Yapta Firefox budget accommodation bologna extension or Internet Explorer plug-in . My Flight: $206.50.
Live Search Farecast is another airline ticket search aggregator similar to Kayak. Farecast sets itself apart by offering price predictions that suggest whether now is the right time to buy your ticket—or whether you should wait. It does this by tracking and analyzing fare histories. Earlier this year, Farecast was purchased by Microsoft, who slapped the Live Search moniker on the front end. My Flight: $216.
Priceline has long been a favorite of bargain hunters and William Shatner fans alike. Priceline made its name with its Name Your Own Price system, and while the Name Your Own Price option is still available, it's been significantly de-emphasized on the site. If you're looking to really low and you don't mind bidding blindly (when you name your price, you don't get to choose departure/arrival times or number of stops, for example), NYOP is a good way to go. Otherwise, Priceline's default search engine still has a lot to offer. My Flight: $206.
Sidestep is yet another search aggregator that you may find oddly familiar if you're a Kayak user. That's because Sidestep was purchased by Kayak a year ago this December. In fact, from what I can tell, SideStep's search results are the same as what you can get from Kayak—it even sports the same Buzz feature—so it's really just a matter of choosing which one you like the look and feel of more. My Flight: $207.
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