Using an online travel aggregater to book flights is generally my first and usually the best option I've found when booking online air travel. These aggregaters look at all online travel sites like Orbitz, Travelocity, Expedia, and many more including the airline sites like Delta, United etc. The results they return are an amalgam of the "best of" depending on the parameters you put in the search whether by price or schedule or limiting the number of connections. My favorite is http://www.kayak.com/. It also allows you the options of searching by a specific carrier so if you are trying to use Delta for example, it pays to look at both Kayak as well as Delta since there may be some unpublished specials on the Delta site The aggregaters will also mix and match carriers to give you the best fare options which specific airlines seem reluctant to do even if they are in the same "alliance" or award common shared "sky miles" points. Some aggregaters are region specific and for those traveling to Europe next summer consider http://www.skyscanner.com/ or http://www.momondo.com/. Kayak also has a neat feature that allows you to check a box called "my dates are flexible" and will then show you the best fares for up to 3 days on either side of your preferred travel dates coming and going. Momondo has a unique calender that lets you easily click to change dates and start the search over. These are but a few of the ways to book travel.
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