Here's a Handy Introduction to 50 Airfare Booking Engines - and What They Do
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, February, 2002 by Alex Racosi
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In the world of airfares, it's a wild free-for-all out there on the Internet - a farrago of competing claims, triumphant boasts and chest-thumping, categorical statements that x is better than y, that b has better fares than c, or that c is superior to b.
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Our suggestion: Go to several airfare booking engines and compare the results before you make a decision to buy. It takes only a few minutes to master a particular site, and no more than 15 or 20 minutes to compare the fares of several. You can't tell the players without a scorecard, goes the old baseball refrain. You can't maximize the advantages of the Internet without knowing all the players in the airfare game. Here are 50 such sites, operational as of press time and set forth in alphabetical order within their respective categories. THE BIGGIES (airfare Web sites that ...
