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  1. ignorabimus
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    For flights, earlier is generally better of course. Services worth using: Kayak.com – has a price tracking/alerts feature SkyScanner.net – pretty straightforward directory of flights Matrix...

    For flights, earlier is generally better of course. Services worth using:

    • Kayak.com – has a price tracking/alerts feature
    • SkyScanner.net – pretty straightforward directory of flights
    • Matrix software – maintained by Google, but not commercialised which is good. Note that the database of flights it searches is far from complete.
    • Google Flights – usually offers reasonably cheap flights

    It may also be worth getting an airline credit card – generally redeeming in a higher cash:points ratio is better value. Of course the standard credit card stuff applies (pay the balance in full every month, don't buy more than you otherwise would, etc).

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    totalfreeformchaos
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    Hopper has been pretty good in my experience Hard to accurately compare the different services though tbh

    Hopper has been pretty good in my experience

    Hard to accurately compare the different services though tbh

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      eindc
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      Hopper has been absolutely disastrous for me... to the point we had to push a trip to Paris by a week once we realized it was about to fuck us over. If we had trusted it and waited, we wouldn't...

      Hopper has been absolutely disastrous for me... to the point we had to push a trip to Paris by a week once we realized it was about to fuck us over. If we had trusted it and waited, we wouldn't have been able to go at all. It also almost screwed us on a trip to Puerto Rico but that time we already knew it wasn't trustworthy so we didn't wait at all.
      So give it a shot, but don't trust it. If you're going anything other than the cheapest coach, expect it not to work right.

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      1. totalfreeformchaos
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        Oh wow good to know. Probably good practice to use more than one tracker and then book directly with the airline…

        Oh wow good to know. Probably good practice to use more than one tracker and then book directly with the airline…

  3. Artren
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    Going used to be Scott's Cheap Flights. Works great if you're American. Used to be good for Canadians, but they axed us a while back. Not sure if they have expanded or not as I stopped using the...

    Going used to be Scott's Cheap Flights. Works great if you're American. Used to be good for Canadians, but they axed us a while back. Not sure if they have expanded or not as I stopped using the service when they cut out Canada.

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