On The Wing: Travel Applications That Get You Soaring

With Summer blazing toward us, the travel season has a few new web tools for the traveler and the travel planner. Three of the more useful applications bring simplicity of interface and a broader range of services than your typical travel site.

First comes Kayak, whose extensive search and transparent results give quick, accurate airfares, rentals, and lodging. Results are listed for easy comparison along with the seller and optional matrix and chart views. Clean, fast, and easy, Kayak is a good first stop. To be thorough you may want to follow with Vayama, an airfares to city guides webservice that glides with an ease that one would expect from a web 2.0 travel application. Rent cars, book hotels or airfare, discover new destinations, and a city guide or two to get you started. With a smooth interface, subdued colors and a search function that covers a wide variety of local and international carriers, Vayama is an excellent resource for the vacation planner. The drawback to Vayama is that it is unable to search for flights leaving in four days - not so good for the quick getaway.

To organize that itinerary, there’s TripIt, the webservice that compiles all your travel info and makes it available wherever you’d like, including your mobile. As a bonus TripIt throws in weather, maps, and restaurant reviews.

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