Over the past few weeks, we’ve explained how Bing Travel’s Price Predictor and Hotel Rate Indicator can help you book your airfare and hotel room with confidence. Now, we’d like to show you how our flexible search tools can save you money on flights when you haven’t decided exactly when or where you want to go.
First, let’s suppose you’re thinking about a trip to Hawaii in September, but haven’t yet settled on when to go. From the Bing Travel homepage, scroll down to the “plan trips” section, and select your departure and destination cities.
On the next screen, you’ll see a graph with the lowest fares over a 30-day range. Under “refine results” in the left column, you can change your dates or your trip length, and compare the fares to those that are available to additional airports:
In this example (the search was done on Aug. 3), I can tell that the lowest possible fares to Hawaii in September are for departures on Sept. 2, 12, 15, 20 or 26. And I can see that the lowest fares are for flights into Honolulu (the blue line), and that fares to Maui (the red line) are generally, but not always, lower than fares to Kona (the green line).
Next, click on one of the circles and you’ll get details for that fare, as well as a link to search for specific flights. $347 - what a deal! It’s that easy to find the lowest possible price to multiple destinations over a range of dates.
Now, let’s suppose that you’re truly flexible, not just on when you travel but also on where you go. Say you live in Kansas City, and have a budget of $200 for airfare. Where can you go for that amount? From Bing Travel’s flexible search page, go to the left column under “refine results” and select your departure city, a 30-day date range, your desired trip length and even a maximum price:
The map displays all of the cities to which there are fares that meet your criteria. (From Kansas City, you can fly round-trip to Denver for just $129, or all the way to Baltimore for just $168.) Check out the arrow next to each fare, which indicates our price prediction over the next seven days, and then click the search link to find and book specific flights.
Until now, you may not have realized just how many places you can go when you don’t have a lot of money to spare. And even better, Bing Travel’s flexible search tools are a foolproof way to make sure you stay within your travel budget — whether you’re searching for sunshine in Hawaii or looking to escape the heartland for the coast.
- Mike Fridgen, Director, Bing Travel
It's interesting that getting there and staying there are so much a commodity these days. It seems to be all about price. After flying Air Canada, British Airways, Luftansa and Air Greenland in the last two weeks I have to say paying a bit more for Air Greenland was worth it.
I wish more airlines would go back to the full service model. It's these kinds of tools that work to keep airlines competitive, but it seems to me it's almost always at the cost of true great service.
Funny, it's Air Greenland who for our trip had no competition, that had by far the best service.
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