Website with good one-way airfares?

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<p>Someone a while back mentioned a website that had good one-way airfares (for students?). Of course, now that D needs it, I can’t find it that readily with a “search.”</p>

<p>Does anyone have any suggestion?</p>

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<p>This is timely for me too TheDad. I have been working with travelocity trying to schedule an incredible series of one way flights for various members of my family this summer so if such a site exists, I’d like to know as well!</p>

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<p>Was it this one?:<a href=“http://www.studentuniverse.com/[/url]”>http://www.studentuniverse.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I remember the thread, and this is what I bookmarked at the time.</p>

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<p>I LOVE SIDESTEP.COM (intentional yelling). No signups, no lengthy steps to get to anything. Just put in where you want to go to and from and it will look at ALL fares and rank order them by price. Amazing. For example, I just this minute did LGA (New York) to LAX for June 11th. It showed 151 different one-way fares, the lowest being $148 on Delta.</p>

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<p>StudentUniverse found a fare for $148 as well, but they won’t tell you what airline unless you go through some more rigamarole. I’ve compared before, and I have not yet found that the “student fare” is really any cheaper.</p>

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<p>Thanks, guys.</p>

<p>Fwiw, D checked on StudentUniverse and got a fare Boston-LAX for $165, lower than the $192. (Note: she flies either American or United for frequent flier and other purposes…you can do better if you’re willing to fly AirTran, etc…we’re not. Also we go for non-stop when available at all.) Point is, the StudentUniverse fare was very good.</p>

<p>I looked at the ITAsoft site…I’m using it for myself from now on.
A very easy to use site. Also accommodates multi-segment flights very easily. I bookmarked Sidestep as well; its comparison feature looked good and I may try it for hotels.</p>

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<p>Southwest routinely lists one way prices, with no roundtrip required.</p>

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<p>Just did a quick search on Southwest <a href=“http://www.southwest.com/cgi-bin/displayFares[/url]”>http://www.southwest.com/cgi-bin/displayFares&lt;/a&gt; Actually, they don’t fly into Boston, they go to Providence but when I put in LAX to Providence, for June 21 I got $191 for the fun fare. Great deals for infants and seniors - only $129!</p>

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<p>We use expedia –
<a href=“http://www.expedia.com/Default.asp?CCheck=1&[/url]”>http://www.expedia.com/Default.asp?CCheck=1&&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Consistently the best prices for us. (Side step pops up automatically after you put in a search, and occasionally beats the price, but not usually.)</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.cheaptickets.com%5B/url%5D”>www.cheaptickets.com</a></p>

<p>$159 fare one way United, Boston to LAX on June 11, one stop.</p>

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<p>Well, the logistics of getting to Providence from Smith is a bridge too far…I can say that even Smith/Boston is a big enough 4-hour PITA with a car or cab ride and two bus transfers. Plus D may be flying with a blind friend, which makes connecting flights even more problematic than usual.</p>

<p>Time/dollars is one of those conversion thingies like mass/energy.</p>

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<p>or you can just fly jet blue, $139 one way long beach,ca to boston,ma (june 11). You know with the nice leather seats and the direct tv in every seat, there is no cheaper way to fly…</p>

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<p>Hard to beat Student Universe, but if Long Beach works for you, always check Jet Blue. Everything is priced one way, really cheap if you book well in advance, and the best entertainment and snacks!</p>

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<p>We’re in a numerical minority that big ol’ LAX is actually the waay most convenient airport for us. If we lived in the South Bay, I’d look at Long Beach. If we lived in the San Fernando Valley, I’d look at Burbank.</p>

<p>Some people are disgusted with how fast we get home from LAX.</p>

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<p>We may all need to recheck the websites. Jet Blue seems alot higher then when my daughter flew in April</p>

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<p>TheDad, </p>

<p>Your daughter may want to try flying to Hartford as that is probably closer than Boston to Smith. Southwest flies LA-Hartford though not always non-stop.</p>

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<p>SBmom, D generally <em>does</em> fly through Hartford, except when a) having to use her French horn as a carry-on, which is more successful with larger aircraft or b) making a rendezvous with her blind friend who lives right outside of Boston.</p>

<p>She may start flying through Hartford with the French horn anyway, flying United through Chicago. The aircraft seem to be big enough on that run…unlike the Hartford/DC flight which can use one of those small puddle-jumper planes with no room to stow the horn in the cabin. The horn is a demanding mistress.</p>

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<p>The new “Ding” alert feature on Southwest gives some great airfares.
After you download the program, the icon sits in your system tray and 2-3 times a day it “dings” when special fares go on sale. They always offer a pretty wide range of cities including L.A. But they’re only good for a few hours and then they expire.</p>

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<p>“I looked at the ITAsoft site…I’m using it for myself from now on.”</p>

<p>TheDad, I can’t find any mention of this elsewhere on the thread. What is ITAsoft?</p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>WIWA, I think I found mention of <a href=“http://www.itasoft.com%5B/url%5D”>www.itasoft.com</a> while trying to search for the thread that I had remembered. Now that you mention it, it wasn’t in this thread at all.</p>

<p>TaraMom, that’s useful to know.</p>