This morning, I've been playing with the air fare comparison tools provided by Lea Woodward of http://www.lipliving.com/ in her new book, X Marks The Spot. I'm out of the habit of visiting these booking sites and I was amazed to see what you can do with them nowadays.
Lea recommends Skyscanner.net, Farecast.com, FareCompare.com and Yapta.com for finding the best fares.
Skyscanner seems to only compare the prices of flights from the UK (but check this out if you live elsewhere - you may get different results).
FareCompare is good fun - I booked an imaginary flight from Manchester to Orlando Sanford, a flight from Sanford to Fort Myers and 14 night accommodation at the 4 star Sanibel Harbour Resort, all for a very reasonable price!:-)
Farecast compares fares and advises you whether to buy now (because fares are likely to rise) or wait to make your booking (because fares are likely to drop).
With Yapta, you can make sure that you pay the absolute minimum for your US airline tickets, even if you've purchased them already. Yapta tracks ticket prices for you and alerts you when the price drops so that you can either get a refund on a purchased ticket or buy that low-fare ticket on the prime flights.
How clever is that?
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