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Introduction: Florence from customer support at Hipmunk writes: Hipmunk now includes American Airlines in our search results. Please note that users will be taken directly to AA.com to complete the booking/transaction. . . . we are steadily increasing the number of flights that we offer on Hipmunk. As you may recall, Hipmunk is a really cool flight-finder that didn’t actually work (as of 16 Sept 2010). At the time, I was a bit annoyed at the NYT columnist who plugged Hipmunk without actually telling his readers that the site didn’t actually do the job. (I discovered the problem myself because I couldn’t believe that my flight options to Raleigh-Durham were really so meager, so I checked on Expedia and found a good flight.) I do think Hipmunk’s graphics are beautiful, though, so I’m rooting for them to catch up. P.S. Apparently they include Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains, so I’ll give them a try, next time I travel. The regular Amtrak website is about as horrible as you’d expect.
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