Websites

• Travel websites like Expedia, Orbitz, Hotwire or Priceline allow you to book airline tickets, rent cars or reserve hotel rooms all from home. Just go to the website and enter your location, destination and dates of travel in the drop-down boxes. Clicking "Search for Flights" will show you all of the available airlines and ticket prices.
  
  

Search Engines

• Search engines can help you compare ticket prices by searching different websites for airline information. Fare Compare works by searching Expedia, Orbitz and other travel websites all at once and compiling the information into a chart for easy comparison. Some of them have also added a service that tells whether ticket prices are expected to go up, down or stay the same.
  
  

Travel Agencies

• If you prefer talking to real people when planning trips, you can call an expert travel agent at an agency like Liberty Travel, which can be reached at 888-271-1584. The Liberty website and other travel agency sites can also help search flight information.