Have you noticed that airfare search websites like Kayak, Mobissimo, etc. are no longer improving?

… Or getting worse?

Steve Huffman, co-founder of Hipmunk:

… “There are dozens of ways of buying tickets online, all of which, in our opinion, are equally bad and painful,” says Huffman. …

“We try to present the results in a useful way,” explains Huffman. “So instead of a wall of text that might span 35 pages, we have one simple clean interface where you can see the flights. You can see how they compare to one another and how long the flights are. But we also remove a lot of listings from the results–usually around 70 percent right off the bat.” Hipmunk smartly removes obviously undesirable flights, and you can also plug in your preferred airline so it will always appear in your results. …

Robert Scoble – Hipmunk takes the pain out of finding and booking flights

This is completely different. Check it out for yourself on hipmunk.com

Those sites still don’t have the charter airlines. I’ll be going to a travel agent, no doubt.