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Ask HN: Is there better airfare search than Google Flights?

by aridiculous on 9/12/22, 8:52 PM with 8 comments

• by gnicholas on 9/13/22, 2:07 AM

  I was searching for flights on Google today and it showed that there were zero flights from DEN to SFO departing in the morning. None.

  I couldn't believe that two United hubs would have no flights in the morning, but before I took the time to check United's website I remembered that SWA isn't on Google Flights. They had plenty of morning flights (out of SJC, which IMO is more pleasant anyway).

  I don't know if I encountered a glitch or if Google Flights has bigger problems. But it was really surprising that they would show no morning flights between these cities, and it raised a red flag for me!

• by jbms on 9/13/22, 1:09 PM

  Long established and popular but it astonishes me how many people still haven't heard of https://www.skyscanner.net/

• by pipiscrew on 9/13/22, 10:26 AM

  the best&newest is

  https://www.flightlist.io/

  by kiwi.

  https://www.tripadvisor.com/CheapFlightsSearchResults

  https://www.cheapair.com/

  https://www.kiwi.com/

  https://www.flyblueair.com/

• by already on 9/12/22, 9:19 PM

  Kayak.com shows more options. Also, prices for some international flight are about $30-$40 cheaper than Google Flight.

• by GoldenMonkey on 9/13/22, 2:57 AM

  https://www.skiplagged.com

• by josephcsible on 9/12/22, 11:13 PM

  ITA Matrix (also by Google) is way more powerful, though missing some airlines.

• by JimmieMcnulty on 9/12/22, 9:01 PM

  “Better” is subjective, but one of the people from Hipmunk built a new… browser plugin that mimics some portion of Hipmunk’s functionality.

  I used it a bit, but Google Flights is getting me 80% there so I haven’t overcome the switching inertia yet.

  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flightpenguin/nofn...