There really isn't an easy solution, except for buying them early. Also, use travelocity to find the flights but book the actual tickets from the airline's webpage.
I can tell you from experience that round trip, that'll be about $1,000.
Go to Priceline.com. There set in your flight date/destination and when you get the results, go to place your own bid instead. It'll ask for your information because normally when you bid it'll automatically look up and find a flight that matches your prices, book you, and charge you. However you're going to avoid this. Place a bid that no airline would accept (say $50.) Priceline will search, fail, and tell you your bid is too low. Then it will offer you what flights ARE the lowest in the bid system (which is cheaper then what you'll find otherwise) and give you the OPTION to book them. That way you can still pick your own flight times and are no way committed to following through.
I booked tickets to Denver last month from DC round trip, direct flight for $238.
Travel sites use tracking cookies to determine whether you're looking to travel soon & will adjust the prices upwards because the computer "knows" you're going to pay money for it anyways. Simply clearing your cookies can lower the price quite a bit.
Google how to do that for your browser if you don't know how; you should be able to clear your cookies from a built-in browser menu WITHOUT downloading any additional programs.
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What are your personal tips and tricks for finding the cheapest flights?
(beyond just using orbitz, travelocity, etc)
I figure everyone here could make use of this kind of advice by other members at some point or another.
I can tell you from experience that round trip, that'll be about $1,000.
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Go to Priceline.com. There set in your flight date/destination and when you get the results, go to place your own bid instead. It'll ask for your information because normally when you bid it'll automatically look up and find a flight that matches your prices, book you, and charge you. However you're going to avoid this. Place a bid that no airline would accept (say $50.) Priceline will search, fail, and tell you your bid is too low. Then it will offer you what flights ARE the lowest in the bid system (which is cheaper then what you'll find otherwise) and give you the OPTION to book them. That way you can still pick your own flight times and are no way committed to following through.
I booked tickets to Denver last month from DC round trip, direct flight for $238.
Have fun.
Travel sites use tracking cookies to determine whether you're looking to travel soon & will adjust the prices upwards because the computer "knows" you're going to pay money for it anyways. Simply clearing your cookies can lower the price quite a bit.
Google how to do that for your browser if you don't know how; you should be able to clear your cookies from a built-in browser menu WITHOUT downloading any additional programs.