Don’t be a sucker when flying

Today more than every before people are in a constant scramble to get cheap airfare. The price of everything seems to be going up quickly, but flights are worse than just about anything else since these added fuel surcharges keep going higher and higher. The easiest way to save money on flights is to check a few different websites and then keep your itinerary flexible.

My favorite site is Kayak because it actually checks prices from every other online source it can find and then sends you to the cheapest source it reveals. If you use a site like Travelocity you’ll often have to pay an extra $5 per ticket if you are lucky, but the prices can be much higher than that if the site is unable to find the cheapest seat on some budget airline. Those sites don’t all find every flight, but Kayak probably does the best job of all of them. But don’t stop after checking just one site.

After I check Kayak I’ll almost always check Priceline because they are the cheapest of the regular booking sites, and occasionally they can offer prices even lower than Kayak. Once you’ve checked at least two sites you can book with confidence.