Anyone ever order airline tickets on-line at a discount site?

[carole]

Is someone going to visit Annie? wow how exciting if you are? come on Jen tell us all, what are the plans, we are all nosey here ya know especially me lol!!!

[Randy_K]

We have used Expedia and Travelocity to book flights to Europe and Africa without any problems at all. We just booked a flight to New Delhi through Expedia. The bigger cities have many more flight options than smaller airports. For example, from Los Angeles British Air has two 747s a day to London, Air France has a daily 747 flight, Lufthansa has a daily 747 flight to Munich, Swiss (no longer Swiss Air!) has a daily 747 flight to Zurich, Cathay Pacific has a daily 747 flight to Hong Kong and the like. The more flights the better the price. I like British Air as the cabin service is quite civilized (or, perhaps, "civilised" to avoid that Oxford spelling). Swiss is OK but they are the first to cancel a connector flight on us - this one from Nice to Zurich to catch our flight home. We ended up on Air France going through Paris coming home... 33 minutes later than our original arrival time so we did OK.

[Cincy'sMom]

We have looked at the discount sites, but found booking through the airline was cheaper. When we went to Vegas, the flight was the same price at the ATA website, or Travelocity, but Travelocity had a "finder's fee" type thing. My upcoming trip I booked through Southwest, $39 each way, Detroit-St. Louis.

I don'tknow if you would find the same thing ornot, but before you book anything, check the discountsites, then compare to the airline site. You may find the flight price is the same on either.

[Randy_K]

I have found that the domestic flights price out pretty much the same between the individual carrier's websites and the sites like Travelocity, Expedia, Orbitz, etc. On international flights the prices are a lot different. Last year I was looking for a flight to Rome with the relatively cheapest being found on the British Air website when compared to other carrier's websites. Then I went to Travelocity and found the same seat on the same British Air flight at $200 cheaper than British Air's own site.

[carole]

Jen check out Lufthansa, my son went with them from LA, and found them pretty good, not sure how cheap they are, but a german airline, they do however go to Frankfurt Germany ,then onto London, might be worth it moneywise.

[Randy_K]

I try to balance price against the amount of time I have to spend traveling. I can get a flight to London that is $120 cheaper than a direct flight (this one going from Los Angeles to Denver to New York and then to London) but it would mean I would have to spend another 8 hours in travel - mostly spent in airports which we all know are the happiest places on earth - rather than getting to my destination. It's worth the money to me to get there sooner rather than cheaper