What's a better way to find flights when cost is important and schedule...

ubuntu_ulysses

How can I do a "broad" search for flights? is pretty broad, but not broad enough. Rome2Rio.com (example) says I can go from FSM to MAD for $340 US but refuses to tell me date or airline. matrix.itasoftware.com says that if I can tolerate 150+ ground miles at either end, the cheapest thing in the next six months is $1761. skyscanner.net offers tons of options, then gives me an empty calendar on which I must pick a single day . Most sites demand...

Originally asked by WGroleau on Stack Exchange (travel) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Here are a few search engines that do seem to offer the options you are looking for (all of them have been mentioned on this site before): Momondo requires you to pick a date but then displays a graph with prices for a whole month. Adioso offers several ways to flexibly specify dates and also accepts a whole country or region as destination. Kayak's explore functionality is very flexible both in time and in space. In fact, ITA's matrix also has most of what you require: flexible date picker, ability to specify multiple airports one-by-one, etc. Compared to Adioso, you still need to do some work by varying the length of stay or the airports but that's almost as flexible as it gets,...

Full answer by Relaxed: https://travel.stackexchange.com/a/39311 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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