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
- Jetcost Compare different search engine
- Hopper Flight research tools.
- JetMap shows routes for low cost airlines but doesn't have a search.
- 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.
Other useful resources
- holidaypirates.com often shows excellent deals.
- SleepingAirports.net might be useful sometimes