Who's Your Audience

I recently sent out an email asking about the best way to get cheap airline tickets. We are going to Boston in October and are trying to get the best deal. Here's what folks have responded with thus far:

"I have always found that going right to the airline's site gets a better price then the travel sites. Try southwest and jet blue. also air tran."

"There is one called 1800 cheap seats and kayak.com is good. Also, i've never done it, but you can bid on priceline. The only problem is you have to give your card info up front- and i believe they automatically charge your card once they locate the flight with your criteria. Not 100% sure on that though."

"One of the girls here in the lab was trying to find a reasonable price on a flight to Chicago and could not find one for less than $350. I believe we have the friggin' gas prices to blame for all of this :P Sucks!!!!"

"If you don't care about multiple stops, you can do www.cheaptickets.com. But it'll take a lot longer."

"remember i dont know the area. but if you can leave from louisville-southwest goes to two " Boston area" airports. dont know if these are close enough. also didnt know your days to come and go. but some days are about $111.00 each way plus tax and fees- depends on time and date."

"Have you signed up at Travelocity? They'll send you email about drops in prices on your selected city. You can bid at Priceline. I always use to look at the airlines after midnight on Monday or Tuesday, had seen a news broadcast that those are the times that specials are posted. But then again I booked my October ticket to Tulsa on a Friday night. Everything I had been seeing was about $500. Looked at expedia on Friday evening and saw a good deal on Northwest. Went to their site and booked my tickets for $377 with fees and taxes. Has everyone done away with their frequent flier miles? If not, I used mine on Delta last year to Northwest Arkansas at Thanksgiving. Round trip cost about $35."

I actually tried to use my Delta SkyMiles to book the flight but found that they had expired in January 2008. Guess I should have read the literature that was sent to me!!