Add Skyscanner.com to Your List of Very Effective Airfare Aggregators

It is, as only an example, one of the favorite devices of British air passengers for finding the lowest fares to their destination, even for flights within the U.S. And it's now enjoying a growing clientele here. On a recent list of popular sites displayed by ExperianHitwise, Skyscanner ( www.skyscanner.com ) repeatedly shows up among the search engines with the greatest number of followers.

And a couple of recent test bookings made by me, confirms the site's usefulness. Example?

Try a round-trip flight between New York-Newark and Chicago-Midway, departing April 20, returning April 27. Skyscanner reveals a tax-included round-trip price of $198 ($99 each way) on the new, nonstop Newark/Chicago service of Southwest Airlines. By contrast, Orbitz.com lists (as its price champion) a fatiguing, one-stop flight on the very same dates by Delta Airlines costing $218 round-trip, including all taxes. Skyscanner easily beats the price of that mammoth and typical U.S.-owned search engine, which contains no mention of the new Southwest service.

From now on, I'm going to try Skyscanner for the flights I book (along with Momondo, Kayak, Dohop).