Ticket for one to Kathmandu, Moscow, or Cape Town... please!

July 8, 2010 4:23 AM

Desperately need a new awesome fly-somewhere-cheap monitor website.

Gone are the days when I could program my favorite routes into My Yahoo! and monitor the prices on a daily basis. Gone are the days when Yahoo Travel had those awesome Dream Maps. And now, to my immense disappointment, gone are the days with the full featured Getaway Maps on Farecompare (they've knocked them down to just US/Europe/Caribbean).

I like to watch the fares from my home airport in the US to various international locations so that when a fare drops, I can hop on a flight and take a holiday. Are there any replacements for these methods which I've used in the past? I have seen plenty for US destinations, but don't really care about that -- I want international travel!

Please help!

posted by letahl to Travel & Transportation (4 answers total)

I'm not sure it's entirely what you're looking for (or if it works as well in the US as it does here in Britain) but I've found a few bargain flights through Skyscanner.
posted by bsaunders at 4:53 AM on July 8, 2010

Again, might not be what you're looking for, but you can sign up with the various major airlines to get weekly emails on their special deals. I'm in Houston, headquarters of Continental (for the time being, at least) and they have regular deals to south America for pretty cheap all the time. I also get emails from Southwest.

I am a FF on both Star Alliance and SkyTeam, which I also highly recommend, but I travel internationally a lot which means I actually get miles to redeem now and then.
posted by Brittanie at 5:06 AM on July 8, 2010

Best answer: Would something like the Kayak Explore option work for you? The one there is for London but you can easily set for different cities, set a price limit and see where you can go. There's all kinds of other fare alerts you can set up too.
posted by eb98jdb at 6:06 AM on July 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

You can sign up for email alerts for flights toa destination below a certain price through Voyij.
posted by PueExMachina at 8:56 PM on July 8, 2010