You want to go on a trip and your loyalty to any one carrier is only superceded by your desire to save money. That's where KAYAK Flights App for iPad comes in. This free App allows you to put in your destination and the dates you want to travel and then it goes out and searches for the flights headed there and then sorts the results by the lowest fares. If you decide to go with one of the fares you found you can tap to book it, but you'll be taken out of the App to book the flight on Orbitz or whichever site had the lowest fares. It would be nice to be able to do it all in the one App, but it's not the end of the world that you leave the App once it finds your fare. KAYAK flights can also search for Hotel and Car Rental discounts, but again it does so outside of the App. The App is free and really only geared towards Flight searches.
You can download it here for your iPad or here for your iPhone/iPod touch.
KAYAK Flights
KAYAK Flights for iPad gives you the ability to check for the best flight prices across multiple carriers.
- Kayak Software
- Get on App Store
- Free
All info was collected on 3rd May, 2010 when the app was reviewed.
About Terry White
Terry is the co-author of The Best Selling "The iPhone Book" 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions. He has been active in the industry for over 25 years and is the founder and president of MacGroup-Detroit, Inc., Michigan's largest Macintosh Users Group, host of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast and a technology writer - Terry White Tech Blog.
I would like to recommend Kayak.com, because it scans across multiple travel site sources; but I cannot: because when I found a good set of flights with it after 25 min of careful tweaking of preferences, and I selected to Buy the ticket, it said it was redirecting me to Orbitz, and then displayed a blank screen (with an indecipherable URL which I could not correct or resubmit). I tried 3-4 more times without success, then gave up! I lost the whole ticket search in Kayak.com. (So I switched over and started again in Orbitz and completed my ticket purchase there.) Caveat emptor!