Airline deals, tips please.

[LAGrunthaner]

I'm looking to book a flight Newark Liberty to San Jose, California and the rates are through the roof. From 1.3K to 3.5K round trip. I understand there are best days to search are those Tuesday/Wednesday or Wednesday/Thursday. What days are those? What is a good site to use or should I just go directly to the airline site ie JetBlue. I do understand it is best to use a different ip address as I search which is not a problem.

Tips please. Thank you in advance.
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Looked a little bit and you may have to hop scotch across the country. Couple of different airlines
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[bigdog1962]

Have you checked nearby airports? I have driving 2 hours to get a direct flight from a major city and with the family going, I'll be saving about $1000. Yes, it's a pain in the butt - I just can't see paying that much extra for convenience.
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[mark tucker]

travel agent,pricelene,etc. me and the wife are fixen to fly to Rome for a week with a day in Tuscany, then fly to Kosovo for a week lots of tours&food ,hotells everything for less then $5000 for both of us. through travel agent ( a lot less stress) (my youngest daughter is getting married(wedding) .agent fees are usualy between $200&500, but it all depends on where, who, and what, and how much. or the air lines always run specials or need to fill a flight, you just have to find them...

[hazetguy]

try looking at rates on Orbitz.
consider flying at "off hours" (early/late in the day, red-eye)
consider flying into Oakland instead of SJC.

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[Xevin]

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SWMBO inherits my status as a perk, and the first time she flew after I made GS, they drove her to her connecting flight in an MB. That was quite a weekend afterwards.

You have to spend something like 50k to hit GS , miles don’t matter.
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[Pruneman99]

If the dates aren't necessarily fixed, my daughter and I like to use Kayak. They have a anytime selection. It will find the cheapest tickets available.

They also have an anywhere function. It's pretty neat. Just put in your starting airport (and we also select all near by airports because there a 5 or 6 near us) and it will bring up a globe. You can spin the globe and it will just start finding fares for random dates. We got tickets to Lima Peru and back to ONT airport for about $350 round trip. We also just got back from Guadalajara last week. $120 bucks round trip from LAX.

[Abscate]

Most of the web services don’t access the cheap fare carriers like Spirit, swa, etc. one thing of which to be aware…

There is little capacity in the system right now. At 80% load, a cancelled flight is carried on 3-4 other flights, same day or next day.

At current loads, it can take 5 days to absorb those PAX

FAA rules, CX due to crew or equipment is on the airline.

CX due to weather or ATC load is your problem .
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[raygreenwood]

If you yourself are good at shopping and browsing for flights....just use "Google Flight". It shows ALL of the flights except Southwest going to where you are punching in.

When you book it takes you to that airlines site. I pretty much travel for a living. I quit using 3rd party sites like Kayak and Orbitz years ago because they have a HUGE risk.

The risk is that since they are selling leftover seats at a discount....the actual airline makes little and owes YOU nothing. If you get delayed on site to catch your return.....the airlines do next to nothing for you. They only owe you the money spent. They did not book your flight and you did not book with them. Weather issues? You go to the end of the line. Locked in due to weather or a flight/crew stack up? They do not owe you a hotel. If you need to change flights mid-stream because something changed or got delayed....they owe you nothing and many times you have no options.
Miss your flight because of something out of your control? They owe you nothing.

Ray

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[Q-Dog]

I use Expedia or Priceline or whatever on one device to find the cheap flights, then use a different device to log directly into the airline to book the flight I want.
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[LAGrunthaner]

Great tips, thank you kindly to all.

[Lind]

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Avoid Jet Blue.
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