Using Kayak to find Airline Pricing

Kayak is a website the allows you to search multiple airfare websites with one search. Instead of going to each website (Orbitz, Hotwire, Lufthansa, Alaska, United) separately, just put your search in here, and Kayak will check them all and show you the best deals.

It's a timesaver, but you still need to go to one of those other sites to get the actual tickets.

Kayak also offers information on Hotels and other travel services, but it is in ticketing that Kayak is most useful.

Using Kayak

Go to www.kayak.com.

On the left side, select "Flights" (not Hotels or Deals...)

Enter From, To, and dates for Depart and Return. Click search.

A list of available tickets will come up.

Here's a typical search result, showing the dates, destination, and a couple of the available flights.

There are listings of flights that are avialable that meet your search criteria.

To compare the flights, have a look and see what airline is used, how long the flight time is, how many stops, and so on. Click details to see what the flight is like:

If you don't like the choices you see, you can go back and change the dates, or you can select different options. On the left side you see a list of airlines and other options.

If you see the flight you want, choose a ticke seller and Kayak will transfer you to the site that sells the ticket.