Multi-segment flights Searching and buying flights to multiple cities on the same trip can be challenging, expensive and risk prone.  A tutorial with examples: Click here. Air Travel, which site to use? Comparing Expedia, ITASoftware, Kayak, Orbitz, Southwest and Travelocity: Click here. Seat assignments: getting and improving Planes are more crowded and smaller.  Where you sit can make a big difference.  How to get a seat assignment and how to improve your seat assignment: Click here. The Perfect Air Travel Web Site My vision of the necessary capabilities: Click here Hotel reservations, which site to use? Comparing Expedia, Kayak, Orbitz, Travelaxe Pro, Travelocity and the hotel's web site for their best price: Click here.  Latest update 3/1/08, next update 9/1/08. Rental cars, which site to use? Comparing Expedia, Hotwire, Kayak, Orbitz, Travelocity and the car rental web sites for 10 different US cities and dates: Click here.  Latest update 5/1/08, next update 11/1/08. Free Companion Airline Ticket I received a voucher for a free companion airline ticket.  Was it worth anything?  Click here for the complete report. Southwest's Ding! fares What are they, how good is the pricing, what are the limitations, what is the future? Click here No more "black-out" dates for frequent flyer seats! Northwest Airlines announced that there would be no black-out dates (Christmas & New Years).  During the former "blacked-out" period, the airline offered more than 50,000 seats to ten destinations from Detroit that I selected.  I checked 10 times over nine months.  Most of the seats that were available were to Buffalo, Cleveland and Toledo.  Otherwise, there were almost no seats!  My only advice is that you should keep checking, too bad there is no automated way to notify you when one becomes available.   Whole story here. Hidden Cities, are they OK? A court has found in favor of a traveler who was being threatened by Delta.  The airlines say they will lose $6 billion but does that mean that the public will save $6 billion?  If you live in an airline hub city and travel for business, you can save LOT$.  Use at your own risk.  Here is the story.