Booking flights

International fight booking sites

The following web sites are designed for booking domestic and international plane travel. I've indicated which ones I've used to book flights.
• flights.com - excellent site; used to be called tiss.com; I use it regularly to book flights. (Note that they may rush you to send them a fax of your credit card details -- the details, not the card itself -- just after you've booked. Some of these sites are quite worried about fraud. Most, though not Yahoo, require that tickets are sent to your billing address.)
• Yahoo! Travel I use it regularly to book flights. It's linked in with travelocity, a well-known travel site.
• priceline - well-known; I've used it but I haven't booked flights with them.
• orbitz - well-publicised; booking from North America only; I've searched it but I haven't booked flights with them.
• cheaptickets.com (trip.com now points here)
• vipfares
• studentuniverse - great value for student and teaching faculty travel, linked with Yahoo! Travel here (haven't booked flights with them)

Flying from Ireland, Britain and the rest of Europe

• http://www.travelselect.com. is great for flights out of Ireland and Britain. I use it regularly to book flights. Now linked with the lastminute.com company (see below).

• http://www.cheapflights.com (Hooked up to travelselect but it also lists a bunch of airlines and other on- and off-line travel agencies.)
• http://www.europebyair.com/ (We've used europebyair, however, I think there may be a problem ordering if you don't live in the US.)
• http://www.lastminute.com well-known; I've searched it but I haven't booked flights with them.
• FlyNow (haven't used this one)
• Go4Less.ie - for student travel (haven't used this one)

Selected European airlines

• Ryanair.com cheap, no-frills, for singles and returns; booked with them many times.
• Go and EasyJet - cheap airlines which both happen to be merging.

• Aer Lingus
• British Midland

• British Airways,
• Croatia Airlines,
• and other airlines that fly to Croatia.

London Airports

London is a very good hub to buy tickets from. However, if you are flying into one London airports and out from another, it may be an unpleasant surprise to find that it is not easy to get quickly from one to the other. There are regular high-speed trains from the Centre of London (not always to the same station) to Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted but the most convenient way to travel (if you are using different airports), if time permits, would be to take a coach to go directly from one to the other. (By the way, Heathrow is also on the London Underground.) Best of all, would be to fly in and out of the same airport.