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> Yeah, but you couldn't buy tickets on ITA which made its special sauce only go so far.

I booked tons of tickets over the years using ITA as a basis.

Its not that difficult. Get the itinerary finalised in ITA and then either:

     (a) Head over to the appropriate airline's website and enter in the legs; or
     (b) Call up the appropriate airline's reservations callcentre
In 99.99% of cases, I was able to do it all online without speaking to anyone. There was only a tiny number where I had to call them up.

The savings achievable via ITA far outweighed the minor inconvenience of double-keying.




This was part of the benefit IMO, noobs couldn’t burn a ridiculous deal instantly. Our $900 business class (90% off error fare) YVR-HND-SYD roundtrip on ANA with free stopovers was the best one I ever booked with ITA’s help.




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