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it seems like you come up with YYC - Random places with crazy fares on a semi-regular basis, and for random times as well. Just curious if there's somewhere that I can plug in any of the Maritime airports to see what comes up.
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Unfortunately there's no perfect search engine that will let me search every fare to every destination on every date at once. I usually find my fares through a variety of search engines, sites that I monitor, and also from other people giving me tips, such as on the
Calgary Flight Deals Facebook group which now has over 700 members.
One of the best ways to find 'random' fares is on FareCompare. You can set up alerts for price drops from Calgary to anywhere in Europe for example. Or to a specific city.
I usually set it up to alert me of price drops of more than $100 to anywhere in North America, and more than $200 for flights to Europe for example.
FareCompare isn't always accurate, so I usually have to follow up with a site like ITASoftware to be sure.
One interesting thing you could do is go to...
http://matrix.itasoftware.com
enter in Halifax, and select 'or any airport within 300 miles', and that would cover a large section of the maritimes.
Unfortunately with the 'month long search' you can't select a radius like that (the computation required would be just too much).
And on FareCompare you should set up alerts to the major maritime airports and have it notify you when the price drops by $100 or so. (Be aware though, the FC alerts often aren't correct, as I mentioned, so they can be annoying)
Oh and the best deal (but doesn't qualify as a great deal) going from Halifax right now is to Shanghai. $852 on United starting in mid November to first week of December, over 14000 miles round trip!
UPDATE: I see there is a flight from Moncton to Cancun for $242 CDN all in, pretty sweet deal. Jan 9-16 on WestJet. Can also depart on the 12th.