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Fly.Com's New Calendar Option Lets You Search for Cheaper Tickets

When Fly.com first appeared on the travel booking site scene, we were hoping that the flight aggregator would be somewhat different than the others. While we liked the book directly with the airlines option and the listing of the in-flight amenities, we weren't totally wowed by Fly.com.

But now we learn, thanks to Tom at Hudson Crossing Traveler, that Fly.com has introduced a new feature which lets you compare prices for different days in different months.

We plugged in a trip to Newark from Los Angeles for May 28 and a fare of $259 round-trip on American Airlines showed up. In the top tab of the results page, the last tab listed is "Calendar" and a helpful balloon tells you that "$246" is the best price. It turns out that fare is available in July. Not so helpful. However, Fly.com did pull up the cheapest date in May. And we could see that flying on a Friday or a Sunday is more expensive (obvs) at $279.

Interestingly, when we put in the same route and dates on Kayak.com (which already uses a calendar of fares) a Continental flight for $279 was the cheapest option. $20 is not that big of a difference but hey, that's a checked baggage fee these days.

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