I'm a travel junkie who is hooked on deals from YYC. Here are my favorite ways to search....
FareCompare.com - You can set up alerts to notify you when price drops occur. The interesting thing is that you can set 'zones'.
For example, you can set 'Europe' as a zone, and it will constantly monitor every city in Europe, and notify you when the price drops.
Currently I have it monitoring every zone in the world, and therefore every city, for flight deals from Calgary. Earlier this year I managed to snag a return flight from Calgary to Dublin, Ireland in late June for $400 CDN after taxes (on Air Canada). Not sure if it was a mistake or what, the deal was gone the next day, and AC never mentioned a sale.
You can also view stats such as 'price per mile' from Calgary, which can be interesting to watch.
ITASoftware.com
Strange name, but a fairly powerful system, especially for flexible date searches. (One of the few left that can do international flexible date searches).
Kayak.com
Usually after narrowing down my dates, I like to use Kayak, because of the excellent filters you can use (ie: travel time, stopovers, etc).
TravelAlerts.ca
Updated quite often, with deals from the charter companies, which you won't find on the major search engines.
Facebook
I've set up a group on Facebook for anyone that's interested in being alerted instantaneously to any deals from Calgary. (I only post the deals that are truly great).
Calgary Flight Deals & Travel Specials Facebook Group
^^ now serving over 35,000 Calgarians!
I've found that when it comes to the really great travel deals, time is of the essence. You've usually got 24 hours or less to book it.
Anyone have any other favorite resources for flight deals from Calgary?
Post the best deals you've found lately!
Baggage Fee Chart
http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/blog/...ge-fees-chart/
YYC Deals Map
http://www.YYCdeals.com/map
^^^ Google Map displaying the cheapest price from Calgary to hundreds of cities around the world.