How to search CheapTickets for flights

CheapTickets is an Expedia Group brand, acquired with Orbitz Worldwide. It sells from the same inventory as Expedia and Orbitz.

What CheapTickets is good at

• Rewards credit on the same scheme as Orbitz, since they run on the same platform.
• Promotional codes that appear on the site more often than on its siblings, which occasionally makes it the cheapest of the group.

What to watch for

The name is marketing, not a claim about price. It is not systematically cheaper than the other Expedia Group sites, and it is not searching anything they are not.

Use it like this

1. Check the promotions page before searching. A live code is the only reason to be on this site rather than one of its siblings.
2. Sign in so rewards credit accrues.
3. Compare against Expedia and Orbitz on the identical search, since all three run on the same inventory.

Verdict

Check it only if a promotional code is live. It is one of five doors into the same inventory.

Common questions

Who owns CheapTickets?

Expedia Group.

Does CheapTickets sell tickets directly?

Yes. It is an online travel agency, so the ticket contract is with them rather than the airline.