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by Cor 5107 days ago
I love Hipmunks interface, but it usually fails at finding the cheapest available price.

I've used flightfox.com, a crowd sourced flight finding service, a few times and I've been surprisingly impressed each time. The guys on that site have found me some incredibly cheap flights that I have no idea at all how they found. I've saved a ton of money using it.

It's great to pay someone a small amount of money to handle the pain in the ass that searching for flights is.

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Flightfox is pretty awesome, but they're generally for more complicated itineraries that require searching over lots of different variables (e.g. dates, layover, multiple stops, etc.). Hipmunk I've found is great for finding that quick flight from BOS<->SFO on dates I'm certain about. I imagine Hipmunk may expend the kind of usage cases they're optimized for as they grow.