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Old Nov 20th, 2003, 12:05 PM
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Cool Airfare Website!

I just stumbled across this website looking for cheap airfare to Tortola over the holidays.

www.itasoftware.com

You can't book a ticket there but it does have great options and seems to search all airfare everywhere!

Didn't see any advertisers either.
 
Old Nov 20th, 2003, 12:26 PM
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I did a test of it for several different itineraries against SideStep and SideStep beat it on price in a third of the time in every test. Good idea though. Try www.flights.com for a similar experience.
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Old Nov 20th, 2003, 12:37 PM
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Gardyloo, is Flights.com Sidestep?
 
Old Nov 21st, 2003, 10:29 AM
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www.sidestep.com
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Old Nov 21st, 2003, 12:24 PM
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I'll add my new favorite...
www.site59.com
Amazing last minute package deals.
Generally you can book weekend trips up to 3 weeks out and pay less than the going airfare for both air and hotel.
We are thinking about going somewhere this weekend, New Orleans for 3 days is like 250 for air and hotel.
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Side step is good for base info, but in my personal searching experience, they have never beat out Orbitz. Site 59 is great for last minute deals--you can also sign up for weekly emails and you'll receive specials from your departing city each week--great prices!
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Old Nov 21st, 2003, 02:42 PM
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Gardyloo, thank you thank you thank you for Sidestep.com!

In my initial search, I stumbled across itasoftware.com. I was trying to find airfare from the southeast US to Tortola, Virgin Islands over Christmas.

I was getting prices around $1600 per person which is stoopid expensive.

I figured I would have to drive to Ft.Lauderdale or Miami to get the airfare under $1000.

Using the 300 mile alternate airport radius on itasoftware.com, it gave me a $417.00 rate from Orlando. I plugged that information into sidestep and $391 came up!

My drive time has been cut in half and what I'm spending on both tickets I budgeted for one!
 
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Okay - SideStep.com is pretty cool - thanks for sharing the info, Gardyloo.

I was surprised that it didn't function with Netscape, but that's okay.

Make it great!
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