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Introduction: In the past I’ve categorized Hipmunk as a really cool flight-finder that doesn’t actually work , as worse than Expedia , and as graphics without content . So, I thought it would be only fair to tell you that I bought a flight the other day using Hipmunk and it gave me the same flight as Expedia but at a lower cost (by linking to something called CheapOair, which I hope is legit). So score one for Hipmunk.
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