For people who are good at finding the best airline deals:?

Question

I need your help. Typically I'm pretty good about finding good deals, but travelling on Memorial Day weekend is complicating things a bit. Also, the airport I'm flying into and the airport I'll be returning from are different...so I have to use the "multi-city" option wherever I try and look. So here's my travel agenda:

Fly out 5/26 from Nashville (BNA) to San Diego (SAN).

Return 6/3 from San Francisco (SFO) or San Jose (SJC) ...back to Nashville

I don't know any "secrets" if they exist...so I'm trying best as I can to find good deals...any help??

Answer 1

One place best website!
www.kayak.com
From the kayak website Kayak.com searches hundreds of travel sites to give you the widest possible choice of flights and prices. It costs nothing to search and not a cent to book because we're not a travel agency.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Probably the airline's website directly is the best option. Any airline's website will allow you to search for "multi-city" tickets. I fly a lot for work so I book a lot of travel. I always check expedia.com or orbitz.com or one of those sites, and see which airline has the cheapest flights. Then, I go to that airline's website and pick the exact same flights, and more than 99% of the time I get the exact same fare. Except, most of those websites charge a "booking fee" of $5 or more so it's actually cheaper through the airline. And many airlines guarantee that you will get the cheapest fare through their own website. I know American Airlines does this and probably most others do also.

Also, many of the "low-fare" airlines (Southwest, JetBlue) do not list their fares on those websites so you actually have to go to the airline's websites. However, most of the time I find those airlines to be at least as expensive as other airlines.

Of course it also pays to shop around, be flexible with your dates of travel, etc...