How to find cheap flights

Finding cheap flights is a nice skill. Hitchhiking is a good way to get around but how can you get to other continents if you don't have oceans of time?

Search engines

• Skyscanner is a great way for finding cheap flights. Choose "whole month" or even "whole year" for this to work properly.
• AZair.com is a specialized low-cost search engine. It can combine diff. carriers (up to 3 changes), search by region (from: Scandinavia, to: Mediterranean), search in long time windows (June-October), has data form 45+ LCCs (mostly European and Middle-eastern), works fast
• Azuon is Windows program that has many low-cost airlines in its database such as Ryanair, Norwegian, Wizzair, AirAsia and many more.
• ITA's Matrix lets you search in advanced ways.
• Drungli is very simple search tool for flights in EU, but it covers some cheaper airlines (eg. Ryanair).
• Kayak
• Hopper Flight research tools.
• JetMap shows routes for low cost airlines but doesn't have a search. Especially good for European connections; outside Europe it's not always up to date. See airliners list
• SkipLagged finds "Hidden City" connections, sometimes it's cheaper to book a flight to a third city, and you simply don't board the last plane.
• Jetcost Compare different search engine - they also list companies that scam their customers though

Avoid scams

• Edreams is notorious.

Other useful resources

• holidaypirates.com often shows excellent deals.
• SleepingAirports.net might be useful sometimes

Articles

• Use a fake location for cheap airfare