When you book a flight through travel booking sites like Vayama or Google Flights, you hope you’re getting the best deal, but here’s the catch: Many low-cost carriers airlines prevent their flights from showing up on some of these third-party travel websites.
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Jetblue flights, for instance, won’t show up on booking sites like Vayama or SmartFare.com. Meanwhile, Southwest flights generally won’t show up on any third-party travel site, meaning you could be losing out on a cheaper option—or just a destination you’d prefer to go if it were an available option.
If you want a chance to view all local departures, try using FlightsFrom.com—a website that compiles direct flights departing from all over the world. By selecting an airport, you can check every departure flight leaving there on a given day (and up to nine months from now); it’s especially useful when booking from obscure destinations that rely on regional airlines, as recommended in this week’s Recomendo newsletter.
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Using FlightsFrom.com to find tickets from Hagfors, Sweden, for example, two results appear by a regional airline departing on July 1; meanwhile a search via Google Flights for the same date comes up empty.
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Part of its appeal is that it justmakes trips easier to plan; you see the departure times of every non-stop flight in a list and without sponsored ads. If you want to leave at a particular time of day and don’t have a destination in mind, FlightsFrom.com is also a useful tool as it organizes its entire list based on departure times.
On the other hand, for as helpful as it is, FlightsFrom.com doesn’t account for fare pricing. So be sure to compare your results to those you find on other sites. (Skyscanner is another good resource, though they have ads.)
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