Booking air travel

Parents Forum
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<p>Does anyone know anything about booking air travel on studentuniverse.com? I just discovered it as I am looking for flights for D to come home for Thanksgiving. The flight that I want is only $2 and change cheaper through student universe, but I am interested for the long run. Any info would be helpful. Thanks!</p>

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<p>Tell us your 2 points of travel and dates.</p>

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<p>We used studentuniverse for our son’s trip for his semester in GB. I am a fan.</p>

<p>I started a thread about it last year: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/506959-student-universe.html?highlight=studentuniverse[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/506959-student-universe.html?highlight=studentuniverse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>It may help.</p>

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<p>We’ve not found studentuniverse to be a good option for us. That’s probably due to the routes we needed. Yes the prices were marginally better, but at the expense of convenience. YMMV.</p>

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<p>Yeah, there are much better options than studentuniverse (or other student travel sites). Kayak, Southwest.com, Farecast, etc. are all better.</p>

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<p>I used it for my son his freshman year of college and it worked fine. His flight was canceled for some reason and he was re-booked on a different flight with no extra cost.</p>

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<p>I have booked flights through Student Universe, and have never had an issue. But I also always check kayak and the individual airlines to compare fares.</p>

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<p>We have found student universe to be good for one way trips, but always check kayak.com too. Student universe deals are not always the best.</p>

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<p>Student Universe worked for D before on 2 European trips.I haven’t found kayak to work yet. I end up needing to use the airline sites and I have 6 :eek: to book right now. It’s a killer.</p>