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How to search for airplane lie-flat seats?
What's the best way search for airplane lie-flat seats?
One of the biggest factors, especially for long haul flights, is what type of seat you're travelling in, with "lie-flat" being by far ...
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Flight + hotel flexible dates search?
Here on Travel.SE we have a well-developed question about how to search flights with flexible dates and destinations How can I do a "broad" search for flights?
We also have some pieces how ...
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Find the top k cheapest airports to meet for two people departing from different airports
I'm looking for a way to find the top k cheapest airports to meet for two people departing from two different airports, and given some dates. The meeting airport shouldn't be the same as one of the ...
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How to plan for shortest travel time?
For my work I have to visit remote villages abroad. Sometimes, the closest international airport is more than a 100 km away. Also I do not like driving.
As an example: I need to travel to Agordo, ...
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Are there any apps or sites that allow you to set a strike price on flights?
So, there are plenty of sites that will tell you if flight prices in your search results are "high" or "low".
Are there any sites or apps that will let you set a "strike" ...
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How can budget OTAs offer prices that are 25% of what the airline charges?
Example https://www.momondo.de/flight-search/BOS-MAD/2021-06-26/2021-07-02/business?sort=bestflight_a
Boston <-> Madrid, business, Jun 26 to Jul 2. On Momondo.de this yields a few budget OTAs (...
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Is there any website or service for showing countries / regions open for travel during Covid-19 restrictions?
As countries and regions open up from lockdown, I was wondering if there's an online tool that can highlight which places a person is free to travel to based on:
Passports held
Current residency / ...
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Summary of Flight Destinations & Frequency from a specified city
I'm often interested in figuring out what destinations I can get to non-stop with a particular airline from a particular origin city; this is helpful in getting a sense for what airline might have ...
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Flight search for multi-stop with 10 segments [duplicate]
There is a similar question on this site, Are there any sites that let me book 7 or more multi-city flights?.
But, it's from 2013. And lists just one site - https://airtreks.com, that gives an ...
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"Book with a travel agent" option on Google Flights
Here is a screenshot from Google Flights:
I've encountered similar scenarios multiple times. Google is claiming that one can book these flights for 186 USD with a travel agent. I've checked a few ...
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Why does Google Flights show train stations?
When I enter a city name, Google Flights often suggests train stations. For example, I mostly see central stations (hauptbahnhofs) for German cities.
None of the combinations I have tried so far ...
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Flight search engine for weekend flights
I'm looking for a flight search engine that lets me search for a flight from a specific origin to a specific destination. I don't care on which weekend the flights take place, but I want to find the ...
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How can I choose FRA without HHN on kiwi.com?
I'm a big fan of the flight search engine kiwi.com but there is one feature of it that annoys me over and over.
When I specify as departure airport FRA (Frankfurt International Airport), I am ...
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Flight Search Specifying Duration of Stay
A number of Flight Search Engines allow one to specify flexible dates which are a plus or minus offset number of days from the selected departure and return dates. This works nicely when one has a ...
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Finding the cheapest flight from a given airport to anywhere in a given country
There exist many search engines to find the cheapest flight between two airports. Is there any way to find the cheapest flight from a given airport to anywhere in a given country?
I am mostly ...
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Could I have found this flight plan without knowing to look for it?
I want to fly from Sydney to Osaka (not necessarily KIX), leaving after business hours on Friday 1 September, or any time on subsequent days without eating into my holiday too much. There are no ...
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Finding an inexpensive long stopover "anywhere"
This is not the same as what is the most advanced flight search engine besides Azuon and Matrix? but I would hope an engine "advanced" enough for that one would satisfy this one as well.
The scenario ...
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How do I find the registration or serial number for the aircraft I flew on specific trips in the past?
I understand that there are various paid subscription services that allow me to search back up to a year in the past for the IDs of any flight and the histories of any aircraft.
Is there a free (or ...
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How to find flights with a specific layover?
I live in ATL and would like to find flights that have a layover in SLC (where we can leave kids with grandparents). Flexible on dates and potential destinations.
Although would also be nice to be ...
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How to find the cheapest destination for a meetup of friends from several countries?
From time to time a few friends of mine and I are meeting in a European place. And time and time again, finding the best airfares is a problem. Basically, we're trying to assess a possible destination ...
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What are 'hacker fares' at a flight search-engine?
What are hacker fares on kayak.com?
I was looking at the filters and couldn't find either in the FAQ or anywhere as to what hacker fares are all about.
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Flexible-date flight search engine with specified weekdays
I would like to search for cheap flights for a week-end out, without specific restrictions on dates or destinations. Is there a flight search engine that allows one to search for all flights leaving ...
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Looking for search-engine with flexible dates and single airline operated for layovers. [duplicate]
I have been looking for a search-engine which can do the following route India to Montreal (Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport - YUL) . I had been trying to have the following ...
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How to make Skyscanner, Kiwi, Kayak include ground transfer in the search?
I'm looking for how to get from Porto, Portugal to Lviv, Ukraine on December 28th. There is a quite inexpensive and reasonably-long option:
Porto — Warsaw around €80 with Wizz Air or Ryanair,
and ...
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When I know the airline, the flight number, and the airport at each end, but am very flexible with dates, how can I find the cheapest flights?
In my case the airline will be Aeromexico, and it would be from Shanghai, China to Tijuana, Mexico, and the flight numbers are AM98 and AM99.
But the dates could be pretty much anywhere from August ...
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I've heard there are only two back-end solutions for airfare search. Does this mean I only need to search on two different sites?
I recall that in the past there were basically two big backends (Saber and something else) for all the online search engines, so you really only needed two search on one site from each group (choosing ...
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English-language meta-search engine with good coverage of Korean airlines?
When I search for flights from South Korea to nearby countries on Google Flights, there are usually many flights from airlines which don't share fare data with Google, for example: T'Way, Eastar Jet, ...
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Is there any website where I can select the itinerary of my flight?
Sometimes I don't want to flight from one place to another directly, but do some stops. I'd like to select all the cities to fight through. And select connection time, airline, etc.. if possible.
Is ...
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Any other sites like darjeleen or flightfox?
I want to know if there are any other sites as darjeleen (not operational) and flightfox out there?....
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Help a nervous flyer plan routes that minimise flight changes and time spent in the air
I'm new here! I'm just looking for some advice and some guidance. So, I feel like it's just better if I cut to the chase.
I'm from Scotland and this year I was accepted to study abroad in the USA ...
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Is there a flight search engine that allows me to pick the departure and return flight separately?
I am looking for a specific route, but unfortunately I have many limitations in terms of schedule.
Many search flight search engines give me good options in terms of price but not the ideal ...
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Ticket meta-search engine with alliance filter?
Is there a ticket meta-search engine?
E.g. Skyscanner has a filter that can remove or keep the airline brands. (Un-)checkboxing them one by one is irritating.
But is there one where I can just (un-)...
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How to search for specific flight numbers?
I am planning a trip from Melbourne to Seattle. I would like as much of it as possible to be on an AA ticket (even if on another airline's plane).
I can buy tickets with Qantas that go MEL-SYD-LAX-...
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Can I find better flight options than those on search engines?
I'm looking to travel from Rome to Baltimore in late April.
By using some popular flight search engines I've found some opportunities with 1-2 connections. But I have the impression there could be ...
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How can I find out on which days SAS operates transatlantic flights
I am trying to construct an itinerary with SAS and would like to know on which weekdays they operate transatlantic flights (in my case in April 2016). I was hoping to find something like (unverified ...
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What is the difference between Google Flights and the ITA Matrix?
Is one better than the other? Does one have features that the other doesn't?
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Is there a website that can show the best deals for roundtrip flights separated by a certain number of days?
I am looking for a website or application that knows how to show results for the following scenario:
Suppose i want to travel from city A to city B by airplane. While i don't impose a specific date ...
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Cheapest way to get from Germany to India and back with flexible dates [duplicate]
I want to travel to Vandenmedu, India from Bochum, Germany.
Starting date would be around 20DEC15, return should be about 2 weeks later, i.e. 04JAN16
What bothers me:
I am flexible in both start- ...
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Mixed flight / bus search engine?
Some months ago I came across a good website that offers to search and plan your travel with mixes way of transportation... Like for example you have to plan a mixed way, like flight and bus, similar ...
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How to find and compare flights carried out by a specific type of plane?
I'd really like to fly with an Airbus A380. But how do I find and compare the price of flights that are carried out by specific kind of plane? I don't want to fly just anywhere; I plan to go from ...
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Is there an app for Android to look for flights with a "go anywhere" option search?
I thought if you wanted to search for fare prices from one city for a specific date to anywhere under a specific price Momondo, Google Flights or Skyscanner are the stuff to use but they don't work on ...
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Daily alerts for cheapest flights anywhere at any given time?
You can search for flights from your location to "Everywhere" in Skyscanner.net. And the system will show you the cheapest flights first no matter the destination or date.
Every day prices change, so ...
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Flight search tool for multiple travelers from different cities to a single destination city
Are there any flight search engines for planning a group get-together with the cheapest flight costs?
For instance, suppose a small company gathering (much like the one I'm currently planning!), with ...
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How do I search for connecting point-to-point flights?
There are often situations where buying two separate one-way tickets from A to C via B is cheaper than buying a normal multi-leg ticket. This can be especially useful with airlines such as Ryanair, ...
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List all non-stop flights between any European city and city X? [duplicate]
My friend was asking "from which European cities can you fly non-stop to Mumbai?"
Similarly I'd like to know all cities in Europe with non-stops to Hong Kong.
(Note too that ideally it would be ...
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Flight booking. Extra information to entice quick booking?
I am forever seeing these extra of bits information when browsing for flights directly with the operator. Just how true are they? Where do these figures come from?
Example 1: 22 people currently ...
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On the Matrix ITA site, why doesn't Virgin Australia show up in the search results?
Even when being specific, why is Virgin Australia (airline code VA) never available in search results on the Matrix.ITASoftware.com website? Yet sites like Kayak show results from VA?
Routes I was ...
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Is there a flight search engine that combines flights from different airlines?
Is there a search engine that considers "mix&match" flight combinations?
My current problem: I need to go from FRA to YLW (Frankfurt/Germany to Kelowna/Canada) on July 29th, and arrive no later ...
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Verify my flight is booked despite error message via SkyScanner / airtickets.com / JetStar
I just found and booked a flight from Japan to Australia.
I found the flight with SkyScanner.
That site redirected me to the online travel agent airtickets.com.
The flight itself is on JetStar.
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How can I book a flight plan found on Matrix Airfare Search?
When I find a flight I like on the Matrix Airfare Search, it spits out a bunch of travel agent secret codes™. If I look for the same flight on the airline's web site, I often get much higher rates. ...
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