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If you’re looking for the best airfare or hotel deal, you can’t trust a single online source. The exact reasons are different for airfares than for hotel rates, but the net result is that the Internet is no longer able to provide what it once did: Easy and accurate one-search airfare price comparisons and quick identification of the best deal.

The key factor for airfares seems to be substantial and constant near-random fare variations. At least that’s what Consumer Reports (CR) recently found as a result of an exhaustive and methodologically sound research effort.

So, what’s the answer to finding the best airfare for your next trip? My suggestion: