Can I find better flight options than those on search engines?
I'm looking to travel from Rome to Baltimore in late April.
By using some popular flight search engines I've found some opportunities with 1-2 connections. But I have the impression there could be better options online (like direct flight to some other American cities then connection to Baltimore).
Generally speaking is it worth taking time to look for different flights manually (quality/cost/time)? Or those searches engines really provide the only feasible opportunities?
Best Answer
There are airlines whose flights are not in the search engines. I found a number of them while planning trips in the Pacific. Since you have starting and ending airports in mind, the website of the airport itself will tell you what airlines fly from it. You can then check their websites to see if you can find flights that are not in the big search engines.
In my experience, if you can find acceptable flights between A and B, there are not other, better, cheaper, less-stops flights between A and B hiding out there with other airlines. You get out of the big services and into the web site of the little airline in cases where the little airline is the only one who flies that route, and they don't want to be in the services (I think it costs them money.) So if you need to fly from Tahiti to Hiva Oa you'll need the Air Tahiti site. Flying from a US city to a large European city, not so much.
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