I just noticed something very strange with Kayak and CheapTickets. I noticed that sometimes when I was doing the same search as I had done a day previously the cost of the fare changed drastically. I figured out that it wasn't just the prices that were changing but the flights were different. This kept happening over and over again. I finally realized last night what was going on. It turns out that I wasn't doing the same search day after day. I was sometimes selecting 1 passenger and sometimes selecting 2. It turns out that this can have drastic effects of the results. For example, I was planning a multi-city trip (city A->city B->city C->city A) and when I select one passenger I am able to find a flight with no stops whatsoever. When I select two passengers that flight disappears and some entirely different flights show up with stops in them. I thought maybe the flights I got using one passenger had only one seat remaining. That's not the case as I proceeded through to the seat selection (even using 2 browser windows, 1 for each passenger) and there are tons of spaces on the flights.
It's really strange, and I'm not sure if the problem is isolated to multi-city flights but I'm going to make sure to try selecting 1 passenger instead of 2 from now on.
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