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Flightfox: Cheaper flights!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭ Rudy Cool Neck


    skyscanner is ****e, it's good for letting you know when some (not all) flights are on and giving you a decent estimate but I can always beat it with a lot of googling and research.

    Momondo.com is the best of them probably.


  • Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭mirm


    nm wrote: »
    skyscanner is ****e, it's good for letting you know when some (not all) flights are on and giving you a decent estimate but I can always beat it with a lot of googling and research.

    Momondo.com is the best of them probably.

    momondo.com just gave me a price of €375 for cork/london flight and skyscanner gave me €142

    Momondo.com seems pretty ****e


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,296 ✭✭✭RandolphEsq


    You're all pretty sh**e!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    ElNino wrote: »
    I don't think you would book your flights through them. The winner would tell you how/where to book the flights amd you would book directly.

    I saw a post elsewhere that somebody put up a group booking for 19 people and a travel agent with spare capacity on a charter flight answered and saved them $500 per head. The whole idea has a lot of potential. Time will tell how it works out.
    that one sounds like a shill post...
    a travel agent, books 19 flights, at a discount of $9,500 for a whopping $29 fee?

    the idea behind the site is actually quite good, but value is probably only found in the high end flights. i would use it if i was going somewhere further than europe, definitely


  • Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭umpsfar


    subway wrote: »
    that one sounds like a shill post...
    a travel agent, books 19 flights, at a discount of $9,500 for a whopping $29 fee?

    the idea behind the site is actually quite good, but value is probably only found in the high end flights. i would use it if i was going somewhere further than europe, definitely
    http://www.startupsmart.com.au/success-stories/meet-the-startmate-class-of-2012-part-one/201201315233.html
    "It costs $30 to use the service. At the moment, we are trying a different models for the finder’s fee, such as 10% of a certain price saving."
    i dont know if they have implemented this yet but that'd be 1k to the winner.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭galwayjohn89


    mirm wrote: »
    momondo.com just gave me a price of €375 for cork/london flight and skyscanner gave me €142

    Momondo.com seems pretty ****e

    Ye they were €100 more expensive then skyscanner for me as well.

    Strangely, Air Canada via continental.com was the cheapest by a long way for me and they didn't appear in any of the search comparision sites.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,183 ✭✭✭dvpower


    Vuzuggu wrote: »
    Ye they were €100 more expensive then skyscanner for me as well.

    Strangely, Air Canada via continental.com was the cheapest by a long way for me and they didn't appear in any of the search comparision sites.

    Air Canada do Cork/London?:confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,930 ✭✭✭galwayjohn89


    dvpower wrote: »
    Air Canada do Cork/London?:confused:

    Nope was for Dublin -> Vancouver -> Orlando -> Dub


  • Registered Users Posts: 30 ShadowLFC


    Just thought id let ye know i tried it out and all i got was a $35 saving on a flight from dub to las vegas which wasn realy a saving!

    I requested my money back and they returned it no questions asked and said that the next time i wished to use the service that they would pay the finders fee!

    So now i have a new "contest up" which they paid for. It didnt appear to work, the first time anyway, but great Customer Service.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,743 ✭✭✭kleefarr


    Why pay when there are so many free ones out there..

    www.skyscanner.net

    No charge.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 30 ShadowLFC


    kleefarr wrote: »
    Why pay when there are so many free ones out there..

    www.skyscanner.net

    No charge.

    Thats true i found a cheaper flight on skyscanner than the one flightfox gave me at the end of the contest, but i am going to america in the summer and the chance to save $360 was worth a shot, also the money back guarantee didnt hurt.

    Ill see what my next contest brings up


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