Air Travel the Geeked-Out Way

[PN]

written by Cat Schwartz on Thursday, September 23, 2004. G4TechTV

When looking for air fares, I'm sure you already know about the usual suspects: Travelocity.com, Orbitz.com, CheapTickets.com, and so on. If you're a true tech-savvy homie, then you know you need to check all of these before making your purchase. But here a few ways to make that mulit-step process into one easy one.

Mobissimo kills it when it comes to making airfare comparisons. They have one nicely designed page that simply asks you where and when you want to go -- and that's it. It takes a little while to scour the big players (see this complete list), but it returns you a nice page with easy to read results. Pretty dope. I found a ticket from LAX to OAK for $120 round trip on one day's notice. Not bad.

If you travel a lot, then you'll want to fly over to sidestep.com and download their killer air-, hotel-, and car-rental tool. It's free and it works! It'll live on your desktop and just wait for you to get the bug to travel, then spring to life with one side of the page asking for dates and destinations, and the other side for the details once you make a choice. This thing is cool! It helped me find a $83 ticket for the same search above. Again, this one also gives you hotels and car rentals as well.

Now that you know where you're going, it's time to do it up right and sit in the best seat in the house-- er, um, plane. SeatGuru.com is an amazingly interesting and addicting site that will give you minute details as to which seats in which airplanes are the best to sit in.

Screen Savers

PN

[KiranA]

Thanks for this, dude.
I'm going to Australia in January so this will help a lot.

~And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all- Socrates~

[PN]

Globe, you're welcome. I hope that these websites can help you and others save mucho dineros when traveling. Have a good time in the "land down under".

PN