Buy International Cheap Flights
Find Low Airfares Cheap on New Flight Price Comparison Website
Jul 20, 2007
There are an increasing number of websites that help travelers find the best of the cheap flight deals available. You can already search websites like Expedia and Opodo which help you find cheap flights, but other websites go further and search for cheap flights across all the cheap flight websites!
A fairly new website that does just that is www.momondo.com based in Copenhagen in Denmark. It launched in September 2006 and was founded by a mix of people from the travel industry, the media and skilled programmers. They came together with a common belief, expressed in their slogan: "Don't spend it on the flight - Splash it on the night!"
Momondo claims to use the latest sophisticated search engine technology to submit detailed information requests for cheap flights to all the databases and airlines on its list. This allows it to send specific requests quickly to each and every place, and compare prices to bring users the cheapest flights available. It also guarantees to bring results within 60 seconds.
Cheap flight bookings are not made with Momondo itself, but when you find the right cheap flight, Momondo connects you direct to the airline concerned. Your cheap flight booking is made direct with the airline, with no additional charge for using Momondo.
Inside Momondo the programming may be complicated, to seek out those cheap international flights, but the face of the website is simple and clean. There are no distracting adverts, just boxes in which to put your departure and arrival airports, and dates, and away you go. Certainly on several test runs Momondo started producing results quickly, and listed the cheapest flights first.
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CHEAP FLIGHTS IN EUROPE: CITY JUMPING
A fun feature of Momondo is that it will work out for you a schedule of cheap Europe flights, visiting anything from 1-6 different European cities on the way, using budget airlines. You can specify if there is a particular city you want to have included, but otherwise you enter your departure airport and let Momondo see what it can come up with. You might find that you can get a cheap flight from London to Hamburg, say, and from Hamburg another cheap flight to Barcelona, and then return with yet another cheap airfare to London via Paris.
The City Jumping feature is great fun, and opens the adventurous traveler's mind to cheap flight possibilities they might not have realised. How about London-Athens-Vienna, or London-Amsterdam-Prague-Milan? That's what cheap flights are all about, and if you are based in one country you may not know about the budget airlines in other countries. Budget airlines in countries including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and many more are all included in the Momondo database, and instantly searchable.
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WHEN TO TAKE A CHEAP FLIGHT WHERE
One wonderful feature is if you know where you want to go, but you don't mind when. Suppose you want to get a cheap flight from London to Athens? The highest fare in one month is €154, but by going on another day you can get there for €55 instead. This cuts down the repeat searches that you have to do on many cheap flight websites, inputting different dates to see what comes up. Many sites let you put in a date plus or minus seven days, but with Momondo you can see the cheapest fare, every day, month by month, in a simple bar chart.
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WHERE TO TAKE A CHEAP FLIGHT WHEN
The system also works in reverse, if you have to travel on a particular day, or you have your holiday dates already booked, but you don't mind where you go. You simply enter the departure airport and ask Momondo to find you the cheapest international flights to anywhere, or you can specify a country if you like. The website then instantly prints cheapest airfares by country and by month of travel. Hmm, London-Rome in October for €20 – sounds good!
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In short, Momondo is a fun and use-friendly website that has a lot of personality about it, and by cutting the clutter it gets down to the business of finding the traveler cheap flights. Click here to try it.
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