My experience with booking complicated airfare combinations for moving around Indonesia taught one great lesson – different booking websites can mean a huge difference in terms of whether booking is easy or hard. I wondered if I might have the same experience booking other flights. My current issue is booking airfare in booking airfare in Australia. I decided to experiment a little to see if some sights were clearly superior to others. My findings:

Jetcost: Found a lower price than Skyscanner or any other website by about 4%. It searched a variety of websites and showed them. It transferred me to eDreams for the booking. No service charge or fees. BETTER.

Cheapflights: Did a good job searching other websites. Returned best price with eDreams as the website that I needed to go to to book. BETTER.

Skyscanner: Found best options and price. Took me to airline’s website. GOOD.

BookingBuddy: Just opens up windows for other booking sites. It does, however, make it really easy to check a lot of sites relatively quickly. Unfortunately, most of them just return bad prices. Useful, but not for really booking.

Justfly. Found even worse prices than OneTravel. EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY BAD.

OneTravel: Did not find anything that was anywhere near the lowest price. EXTREMELY BAD.

Kayak: Easy to use. Found the same prices as Webjet. Had a Travelfusion Service Fee of $13.33 AUD. BAD.

Webjet: Does multi-city. Good presentation. Easy to understand. Has a Webjet Booking Price Guarantee $12.95 AUD and a Webjet Servicing Fee $ 21.95 AUD. VERY, VERY BAD.

Flight Centre: The presentation and the information were quite good. Some prices were higher and there was a $9.95 AUD booking fee as well. BAD.

Wotif: Incredibly bad prices.

CheapOair: Incredibly bad prices.

MakeMyTrip: Could not find any flights.

Zuji: Sporadic service. Long wait times. Found OK prices when it worked but had a $20 AUD Service fee. Good for finding flights when it worked but not good when it did not. BAD, BAD, BAD.

InsanelyCheapFlights: Just another site with not good, not terrible prices. BAD.

Vayama: Ridiculously bad prices.