Which screenscraper do you prefer? Cheap flights guide

CockneyBrum

Surprised to not see Dealchecker mentioned anywhere. They seem genuine and were voted by the Daily Telegraph as a top travel website in 2007. I found it by accident and it came up with a cheaper price than Skyscanner and Kayak.

http://www.dealchecker.co.uk

Tojo_Ralph

kelda wrote: »

Hi. I need to book a more complicated route - edinburgh - singapore (for 10 days) - auckland for 10 days then back to edinburgh. What site would anyone recommend for looking into prices for that?

I have to recommend ..... http://www.amadeus.net

Doshwaster

M4RKM wrote: »

kayak first and foremost for searching and checking prices.

Kayak is my favourite but it doesn't cover all of the low cost airlines (it has Easyjet but not Ryanair) so you need to add SkyScanner for European routes.

bigperk

kelda wrote: »

Hi. I need to book a more complicated route - edinburgh - singapore (for 10 days) - auckland for 10 days then back to edinburgh. What site would anyone recommend for looking into prices for that?

I have used RoundTheWorldflights.com. don't know how it compares with the other suggestions , but it certainly provided a UK-HK-Thailand-Japan-UK trip for about £900 when a UK-Japan-UK round trip was about £700-800, a couple of years ago; the advisors were very good - so I can recommend it. Will be looking again for Oz at Christmas.

So far I have been using skyscanner, Travelocity, TravelSupermarket asd Expedia for my initial checks. I have been doing 2012 month-by-month comparisons for Sydney. I have already dropped TravelSupermarket and Expedia as they gave the most 'highest' prices of the 4 (by quite a big margin), and just a few (mainly marginal) 'lowests' in the checks so far.

Travelocity has so far given quite a few more 'lowests' with substantial differences than skyscanner does, which, although it gives about the same number of 'lowests', their differences are pretty marginal. Travelocity also has a very helpful multiple date display where your dates are flexible and you can see the different airlines' prices, though skyscanner also has a 'month' price summary which is almost as good. For the mo I'm running with both, but definitely favour Travelocity.

Whether my experience is typical I can't say, I guess everyone ends up with their favourites! Hope it's of some interest anyway.

sarah861421

Martin's flight checker used to be the best by far.

It is now worse than useless.

Martin. What are you thinking. Get the old site back.

It was without a doubt the most useful of all the internet flight scrapers.

The new system is RUBBISH, children could devise a better system.

Peter Birkett.

wensday

I've previously used a really helpful one that gives you a bar chart of dates and prices but I cannot find it again this year.
Anyone seen it?
Otherwise quite like travelocity if your dates are flexible.

bagand96

I've previously used a really helpful one that gives you a bar chart of dates and prices but I cannot find it again this year.
Anyone seen it?

Sounds like skyscanner.net, that gives a bar chart when you select "whole month" instead of specific dates.

Obviously_the_best

https://www.skyscanner.net
https://www.cheapoair.co.uk
https://www.opodo.co.uk

callum9999

sarah861421 wrote: »

Martin's flight checker used to be the best by far.

It is now worse than useless.

Martin. What are you thinking. Get the old site back.

It was without a doubt the most useful of all the internet flight scrapers.

The new system is RUBBISH, children could devise a better system.

Peter Birkett.

Yeah, the last few times I've used it the flights it found were "last updated 70 days ago" - needless to say, the prices were therefore well out of date!

It also irritates me that the "I'll go anywhere" option is limited. Why can't I choose an "I'll go anywhere" one way flight? A lot of my holidays are spontaneous connect-the-dot type breaks depending on cheap fares, I don't necessarily want to fly back from the same airport (i.e. last time I flew into a Spanish airport, took a domestic Spanish flight, flew to Marrakesh, back to a 4th Spanish airport then back from there to London).

RachVG

I would quite like a screenscraper that allows you to be more flexible with departure/arrival airports.

For example you can select to depart from "London all", or arrive at "New York all" - but I'm more than willing to travel within the UK to whichever airport is the cheapest, if the difference is significant enough. It would take absolutely forever to actually search fares for every airport!

Same with arrivals - I'm going to San Diego for ten days next July, but would be interested to check prices for flying in to some east coast airports and then look into travelling internally. It would be good to be able to do that on a screenscraper without having to test out all of the individual aiports.