This Travel Search Engine Lets You Compare Fare Across Airlines to Get You the Best Deal

Booking an air ticket online today is a cakewalk with so many payment options and flight booking sites around. But there always remains a pain when it comes to availing the best deal for your next travel. We end up checking myriad sites comparing prices and on top of that the ever-changing airfare price makes it frustrating for users to hitch the hike.

Won't it be good if you get to see real-time data of airlines all in one place along with their fare chart so that you make the right click on right time? Interestingly, it's been there for years albeit with minimal awareness and adoption.

Services like Kayak, FareCompare enable you to easily compare hundreds of travel sites at once, in one comprehensive display. These sites don't have booking engine of their own, rather they push you to the airline site or travel agent site of your choice to make your booking.

Scanning the changing airfare with Skyscanner

Here is a new travel search engine that recommends you to the most wallet-friendly flight by running through the clutter of airlines with varying price ranges. The service also lets you hire cabs and book hotels. You can browse prices across a whole month, or even a year and set price alerts to monitor price changes of your chosen flight. When you find a deal you want, Skyscanner connects you to the airline or travel agent to make your booking directly with them. SkyScanner doesn't sell tickets and doesn't take commission. The airline or travel agent pay them a small referral fee. This is how they work.

The best thing of the service is that it saves you time allowing you to browse a single site that can collect, collate and compare prices for every commercial flight. So, if you know when you want to go but not sure where? Simply pick a departure point and search ‘everywhere' to take your pick of the cheapest flights around the world.

Search cheap air tickets on the go

You can search cheap air tickets while on the go with their free apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry & Windows phones.

Skyscanner Windows 8 app currently features 'free text' search. For example, it can respond to a query like "flights to Singapore in May".

They are working to make the search entirely semantic which can handle complex search query like "I want to go somewhere hot in July".

Which fare compare site do you use before booking a flight? Let us know.