Going somewhere? These are the best websites for finding flights.

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Once upon a time, prospective vacation-goers would journey to an IRL storefront, where a person called a “travel agent” would be waiting amid stacks of maps and dog-eared travel guides. (Probably.) There, the travel agent would type away on a gigantic desktop computer for several minutes, summoning the perfect itinerary from some inscrutable database of flight options.

But thanks to the internet, travel agents have been rendered largely obsolete, leaving travelers to sift through thousands of flights on their own. Or at least, it might seem that way. 

The truth is we’re not alone, or at least not completely. Websites abound to help us amateurs parse an often overwhelming number of choices, comparing everything from prices to the ideal layover city.  Read more…

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