When searching for the cheapest airline flights, many hopeful travelers will visit the low cost carrier websites like AirTran, Southwest, and JetBlue without even considering the major carriers. While this used to be an accepted and recommended practice, we are finding that the major carriers are now often cheaper than their low cost competitors.
One blogger explains this paradigm as follows:
"The truth is, however, that low cost airlines don't always offer the lowest airfares. That's because traditional airlines, which have spent the past few years in bankruptcy court slashing their own expenses, are working hard to match or undercut their low-cost rivals to profit more in the end."
More and more travelers are turning to consolidator websites like Kayak for their airfare searches, simply because most consolidator websites search the major carriers and the low cost carriers simultaneously. By doing searches in this manner, it's easy to see whether United or AirTran, for example, have the lowest fare for the dates selected. The
Kayak Website even allows you to sort the output by the number of layovers if desired.
Rather than going to a low-cost carrier website, I now recommend the all-carrier consolidator sites for your best airfares.
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