I just recently came across Flights.com, which is surprising to me as they have been in business for about 10 years. While most everyone is aware of the big boys in the online travel, such as Travelocity or Expedia, not everyone can say the same about Flight.com.

So, what does Flights.com do that should make you take notice of them? Well, they advertise cheap flights and discount airfare but.. so does everyone else. The difference here is that they actually have a history of delivering.

How do they compare to other online travel companies? This is the key really, anyone can claim that they have the best rates but when you do some comparison shopping the answer is easy to spot.

For the point of this post I decided on a random date in the future (April 24^th 2008) and ran a query through both Flight.com and Travelocity for a roundtrip returning the same day. Here are the results:

Flights.com returned 3 possible flights with prices ranging from $236.19 to $259.58

While, Travelocity returned 78 possible flights with prices ranging from $254 to $308.

Just a note on this comparison, why Travelocity returns so many is because they offer a lot of flights that are VERY indirect, but they will get you where you are going. On the other hand Flights.com offered only flights that were more or less direct BUT were on less known carriers.

What do I think of them? Flights.com does indeed offer a great service. For those people that are travelling on a budget you will find flights that are priced very aggressively. One thing to note is the less known carriers, before booking your flight I would take a couple of minutes to make sure you knew who you were flying with and what their reputation is.

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