how to get decent priced airticket from India

[Matt and Chandra 0]

hi,

emirates is too costly and it doesnt fly to the US destination I would be travelling to

Jigi

Two travel metasearch engines, one of which I got on another thread here on VJ:

1. http://www.mobissimo.com; this got us the ticket we bought. Simultaneously searched numerous travel sites, including both agency and airline sites. We were able to get tickets for my wife for about $850 o/w (including taxes!) on Jet Airways, connecting to Continental once in the US. Jet's international service was excellent, and connections were seamless. Mobissimo actually found the fare on Orbitz, and it's worth noting that her ticket was purchased less than a week before traveling. Ironically, the day before we booked, I found another fare (also on Mobissimo) for virtually the same flight, but for $712 (including taxes!); unfortunately, there was a detail yet to be confirmed at that point. The nice thing is that when going through an engine like this, you can have it checking on flights to virtually any airport in the US, from virtually any airport in India, and it makes the connections. Brilliant.

2. The one I discovered here was http://www.cheapflights.com. It looked pretty good, but doesn't allow booking so close to the departure date.

Disclaimer: Of course, I post these just for information's sake, and have no pretensions of expertise on travel. I personally found these helpful. I certainly don't work in the travel industry.

Matt & Chandra