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I have a lot of down time waiting for my new job to start in a few days, but I'm too broke to take a vacation, so I've been surfing the net more than usual. I thought I would pass this on. I did not realize the online travel sites and the airlines were battling each other like this, but the article gives the best way around it.


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/08/travel/08air.html?src=me&ref=general

Some excerpts:
"So what�s the best way to search for fares now? Currently, there is no one-stop shopping site that includes all fares, but it is possible to cover your bases using only a few sites.

Start with ITA Software, which provides the technological backbone for many air fare shopping sites......

Cover your bases by adding a so-called meta-search site like Kayak.com, Fly.com or Farecompare.com, which don�t sell plane tickets but search hundreds of travel sites at once. ..........

Before you hit the buy button, check out Airfarewatchdog.com, a site with actual people who manually search for fares and will sometimes uncover cheaper fares than the other sites. ......."