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Something that’s hard for me to find is a website that gets me from point A to point B without caring about stop count and duration. Is the flight cheap and stops 23 hours in Hong Kong and 20 hours in Kuala Lumpur? I’ll take it.

Also Kiwi and Google Flights let you make wide searches but their efficiency drops so low they’re basically useless in my experience. You’re better off searching day by day.

Hipmunk never returned the best rates or routes for me so I had to drop it.

Lately I’m really into dohop.com because it shows routes that others don’t (South East Asia)

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https://www.rome2rio.com/ (No affiliation) has always served this purpose (at least locally, in Australia) pretty well for me.

ITA matrix [1] shows prices calendar within 1 month for RT or OW, and for multicity it allows ±2 days for each leg.

Although it doesn't always return the best results if it has to go through thousands of routes (e.g. you specify many origin & destination airports and don't restrict by airline).

[1] https://matrix.itasoftware.com/

You might like https://flightfox.com/. Your use case is the opposite of theirs, but it could help!

I knew it but never used it. This seems to be worth a try:

> We guarantee to beat your quote by more than our fee otherwise our service is entirely FREE.

Thank you!

> Something that’s hard for me to find is a website that gets me from point A to point B without caring about stop count and duration. Is the flight cheap and stops 23 hours in Hong Kong and 20 hours in Kuala Lumpur? I’ll take it.

This used to Orbitz's specialty--save $15 with a 19 hour lay over. And they used to promote this by saying they had better search results. But, hey, they got rich off of Google, so probably the right move.

I occasionally end up on Orbitz and like many other big names they don’t show low cost airlines, which means some flights are 3-5x more expensive to begin with. I pity the customers who don’t know better

https://www.skiplagged.com is exactly what you are looking for! dirt cheap flights sometimes with like 12 hour layovers. If you have the time (but not necessarily the money) it is just the ticket

Assuming skiplagged is still doing hidden city ticketing, it's important to recognize the risks involved here (primarily that overuse of it may cause airlines to reject your bookings and/or shut down your frequent flier accounts). It's probably a reasonable tradeoff for someone just looking for the cheapest flight once, but likely isn't for frequent travelers.

Sadly it doesn’t seem to work in this part of the world. I keep trying it but it never shows any SkipLagged flights, just the regular ones

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