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International Flights, International Airfare Deals - vayama

I just booked a trip to Europe with a couple of amazing attributes:

1. I’m going to Denmark and Sweden and tried to book a multi-stop itinerary via SAS. I couldn’t. I then tried United, a Star Alliance partner of SAS, where I’ve booked multi-city trips before. But United was giving me an itinerary through Germany, and with a return on Luftansa, another United partner. That made no sense.

2. So, I went to Google and searched for “best multicity fares.” This led me to an article on a site I’d never heard of, called Independent Traveler. I did’t matter that I hadn’t heard of it. Maybe it’s a link far or some other shady outfit. Doesn’t matter. I knew what i was looking for: references to travel comparisson sites I had heard of, like Mobissimo. The site pointed me to the name I couldn’t recall: Kayak.

3. Kayak did the job, searching and comparing across who knows how many travel sites to come up with itineraries I coudl sort by price, carriers, stops, flight time.

4. The best for me, based on direct flights, shortest travel time, was on SAS, as I expected and where I started. But the ticket was via a company I had not heard of, vayama.com.

5. Who/what the hell is vayama? I have no idea, and I haven’t taken the trip yet, so maybe it’s all a sham and a scam. If so, I was duped by the most spectacular online air booking system I’ve ever used. The experiences started with a flash animation illustrating my trip and stops, and an effortless, beautifully designed reservation and billing system.

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