Finding Spring Break Deals with Kayak.com

It's time to plan spring break, or your 2007 getaway, and coming up with your top ten list couldn't be easier. As your spring break planning begins, jumping online to find the latest deals is a logical option. Not only does online airline ticket shopping give you freedom to browse, compare, and save ticket fares from various airlines, it give you the chance to explore many options at once. Both Expedia and Travelocity have filled this need successfully with their comprehensive airlines searches. Just enter your destination, flight dates, and other travel details, and the site will pluck through hundreds of flight schedules.

Websites that show current fares from multiple airlines are the best way to find the best published value. Still, Travelocity and Expedia only work with select airlines. A great resource to find a wider range can be found at Kayak.com. Kayak.com is the latest buzz in Web 2.0 websites, and has targeted the travel market with enormous success. Although the site has attracted just over half of the traffic as its competitors, it is growing fast and offering many more resources for savvy travelers.

Visit Kayak.com's main page, and you'll enter your trip preferences just like any other site. The top of the page let's you choose Hotels, Cars, and Deals for any highlights of the day. It's a simple setup; no pictures, limited content, and no annoying popup ads that seem to have become the standard on other travel sites. The site is so user-friendly, you only type in the first few letters of your airport and the rest is filled in-wait a few seconds and a complete list of similar airports shows up on screen. As an aggregator, Kayak.com lists dozens of links to the published fare instantly; the results are listed by Price first, but you have options to choose airline, departure/arrival time, or even sort by stops. The handy sidebar on the left of the page can help you adjust the travel time to the minute., as well as set your airline preference.