Vacation

I was out on vacation for almost a week now. The image is one I took lying on a boat, listening to music and drinking beer.......you get the picture.

Anyways, so the reason for this post which is not particularly related to investing (I guess it could if you buy stocks of some of the online travel agents like orbitz and priceline), is because on my looong flight back I was thinking about all the online tools that I have stumbled upon over the last few years for finding great airline deals.

For a while, I kept a little list of bookmarks that I would go through before booking a flight. I would think that with so many options to search for great deals, I would have found something that actually looked like a deal at least once! I haven't had any luck, but maybe others have effectively found the best way to go about this?

Here is my list of sites that at some point or the other I have used without much success:

The old and the trusted:
http://www.orbitz.com/
http://www.expedia.com/
http://www.priceline.com/

The meta-searchers:
http://www.kayak.com/
http://farechase.yahoo.com/
http://www.trabber.com - Courtesy of Dan's comment. Thanks!

The new and the interesting searching tools:
http://farecast.com/
http://www.mobissimo.com/search_airfare.php
http://skybus.com/
http://www.yapta.com/