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TripAdvisor Now Advising On Airfares

February 27, 2009 at 9:26 AM | by kjb | 3 Comments

Just when you thought that everyone and their brother had a search engine devoted to travel, we get one more. Adding a little friendly competition to the mix is travel review king TripAdvisor. The site launched its own flight meta-search yesterday, and now hopes to save you money in the air and to keep you away from that roach motel.

We took the new search for a spin, and it seemed to respond well to our simple requests. It lets us know that it’s searching perennial favorites like Expedia, Travelocity, Hotwire, and many more. The results include all the legacy carriers, but like so many others, leave out our Luv buddy—Southwest Airlines.

Results are listed similarly to Kayak, so if you’re already using that for your flight searches, you’ll feel right at home. They did put their own touch on airfare searches by adding a fee calculator widget that will assist you in planning for all those extras charges associated with snacks, booze, and checking that first bag. They claim that they trying to give you the true cost of travel.

Another unique feature allows you to check out what city you’ll be connecting in, and what the price difference is. This will be helpful if you’d rather connect in Atlanta than Minneapolis in the dead of winter, or if you’re planning an aggressive mileage run. Our biggest complaint is that there’s no way to search for flexible dates–unless we’re just missing it. Overall, things look promising. There’s nothing here that will shake the industry, but it’s still technically a beta, so we can always hope they’ll wow us with the final version.

What do you think? Will you need to have the "it's not me it's you" talk with your favorite search friend? Let us know in the comments below.

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  1. GoVisitHawaii

    Jaunted Member

    It's good news

    I think the new tool and features are pretty slick. I think SeatGuru.com is also incorporated to help you select the best seat that's available and avoid the bad ones. That will save me the time of checking SeatGuru separately. As you mention, it does seem like all the major web based travel engines are developing advancements quite a bit lately. It's good for us independent travelers.
    February 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM
  1. brooklynnomad

    Jaunted Member

    I like it.

    It seems smoother and faster than Kayak for me at least. I will probably have to get used to using it, since I am so programmed to jumping to Kayak or SideStep to check fares.
    March 3, 2009 at 1:04 AM
  1. madhushree

    Jaunted Member

    Why dont you try this?

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    March 10, 2009 at 3:04 AM

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