In the competitive business environment of today where consumers are looking for bargain deals, airline tickets are growing more and more expensive every day. Looking for inexpensive flight online may be a difficult feat if you dont know exactly where to look for and which travel website offers discounts on air tickets. However, there are travel websites that allow you to track airline fares and purchasing the lowest airfares available.
In particular:
Yapta
Yapta.com is an extremely valuable fare-tracking site that enables you to book low airfares and hotel rates. Unlike other travel sites such as Expedia or Orbitz, Yapta is not directly connected to airlines systems, but it features the core concept of bookmarking to create an innovative way for travelers to search for cheap flights.
Yaptas browser is very useful for bookmarking fares you find on other travel sites. You can search for flights and bookmark fare prices before purchasing a ticket. In effect, you can use Yaptas platform to bookmark all fares that suit your budget and travel patterns and make a comparison to decide on the best fare.
The added value of Yapta expands even further. Yapta informs you about fare prices drops after tickets have been purchased. You may setup alerts through Yapta Tagger plug-in so that you get informed when the fare price drops below the level you have set. You may even be entitled to a refund from guaranteed lowest price carriers.
Currently, Yapta cooperates with 10 domestic airlines and travel sites including Travelocity, Expedia and Orbitz. Besides, in January 2010, Yapta partnered with TripIt, a trip management company, to help users track their flight itineraries for potential refunds. In February 2010, Yapta engaged in a partnership with Kayak in order to offer its users more options in flight search.
Although operating since 2007 and being relatively new in the market, Yapta is listed among the best travel websites in the relevant lists of T+L Travel and Leisure magazine and PC Magazine. Overall, Yapta.com is an excellent tool that allows you to search for different flight options on major travel sites and compare them before you purchase your ticket or get a refund, if you are entitled to, if fare price changes after your tickets are purchased. The website provides also some trip-planning tools including the ability to search for hotel rates.
Airfare Watchdog
AirfareWatchdog.com is a helpful travel website that allows you to search for the best flight deals and look for the lowest ticket prices on airline tickets. The website is designed to offer the least expensive airline fares by entering the departure airport in the Fares From a City field or the destination airport in the Fares To a City field. Alternatively, if you dont have a specific destination to fly to, you may browse the Top 50 Fares option to find the cheapest destinations to fly to. You may also set up fare alerts from and to departure cities as well as city-to-city alerts by entering your name and email address.
Airfare Watchdog lists low fares by checking fares on major and smaller airlines. The email alert divides its listings primarily by airport and then by domestic and international flights. The information included in each listing is mainly regarding the destination city, the fare price and the airline available, but also if the particular flight is non-stop, seat availability on the flight, the dates that you are likely to get the lowest fares and links to specific travel sites for purchasing the tickets. Besides, the website features Search & Compare, Flexible Date Search and Airline Route Maps.
One possible setback is that e-mail alerts should be updated more often so they reflect fares that are currently available on airlines. Sometimes, Airfare Watchdog offers cheap airfares that do not correspond to updated airfares, thus causing confusion and dissatisfaction to travelers. However, it remains one of the best travel websites currently available in the market with a plain user-friendly platform and highly recommended to any traveler who is in need of a great deal on airline fares.
Sidestep
Sidestep.com is another useful fare tracker service that joined the numerous websites offering instant searches of booking engines in August 2007. Especially, if you love the ease of finding great travel bargains on the Web, Sidestep.com is a valuable tool that can offer super deals in airfares, accommodation, vacation packages, last minute travel deals, cruises and car rentals in the easiest and most cost-efficient way.
The main advantage of Sidestep in that it searches through multiple travel web sites to find the best available deal on flights, accommodation and so on. Because Sidestep searches in dozens of websites, return results are extensive. For instance, for a flight search you may get 300 flight options. Return results can be sorted from the highest price to the lowest, but you can also sort it at your convenience, narrowing down based on certain criteria. Besides, you can include discount travel websites in your search such as Hotwire.com or Priceline.com to get the best possible travel deal.
Sidestep allows you to set up some special features including an email alert on flights that you are interested in watching. The alert informs you about fare price drops below a certain level that you set, and fare sales on different days if you have flexible departure dates. You may also download Sidesteps search function plug-in that automatically launches every time you visit another travel website allowing you to make a direct comparison on prices and get the best deal.
Overall, Sidestep.com is a very useful fare tracker service that saves you the trouble of searching in different travel websites one by one. Besides, by returning a huge number of search results it is highly unlikely that you dont find the best deal available or a deal that suits your travel needs.
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