Compare the whole trip cost.
Fares / compare like with like
A displayed total can be correct for the ticket and still omit the bags, seats, ground transfers, overnight work, or conditions that matter to this traveler. Compare the same scope, not two isolated numbers.
One comparison / seven checks
Check every part of the price.
Write the actual evidence beside every line. A blank stays blank. Nothing here supplies a price, fee, exchange rate, or airline rule.
- 01 Price shown Displayed total, currency, passengers, and time checked
- 02 Itinerary Exact dates, airports, segments, and surface gaps
- 03 Ticket Seller, issuer, ticket relationship, and operating carrier
- 04 Included Bags, seats, meals, flexibility, and other services
- 05 Selected Extras this traveler actually expects to choose
- 06 Conditions Change, cancellation, refund, and no-show terms
- 07 Whole trip Ground travel, airport work, overnight, and onward cost
Seven fare checks
Choose the guide for the fare detail.
Each destination is a reviewed guide or local worksheet. None connects to an airline, seller, fare database, exchange-rate feed, account, alert, or booking system.
Make the options comparable before choosing.
Hold the passengers, airports, dates, currency, seller, and time checked steady. Leave unknowns visible.
Use the fare comparison
Find the contract behind the itinerary display.
Separate the reservation, issued ticket, seller, marketing carrier, operating carrier, and disruption contact.
Map the ticket structure
Check the baggage terms in the fare.
Capture item, entitlement, pieces, weight, dimensions, journey scope, and the consequence of exceeding a limit.
Decode the allowance
Separate the seat from the service.
Keep operating carrier, aircraft, seat, fare, baggage, seating need, and the next change check on separate checks.
Open the cabin guides
Keep conditions beside the arithmetic.
Write down the change, cancellation, and refund terms, plus currency, source, and date checked. Do not score a winner.
Open the local worksheet
Put the ground journey on its own line.
Separate positioning, airport work, flying, connections, arrival tasks, and the onward transfer.
Check the total trip cost
Check every ticket and the rules that apply to it.
Write down the segments, separate tickets, border steps, surface travel, dates checked, and missed-connection plan.
Check the ticket setupComparison rule
Compare the same items before adding totals.
“Optional” describes a sales or legal category within a stated framework. A checked bag or seat choice may still be necessary for this traveler's plan. Write down the need without relabeling the rule.
Do not assign a money value to time, risk, protection, flexibility, a missed connection, or a possible right. Keep those conditions next to the arithmetic.
Three labeled examples
Price rules depend on the market and date.
These current sources show why price, optional services, and ticket terms belong on separate lines. They do not decide which law applies to a sale or whether a seller complies.
Entire price and opt-in services.
Current 14 CFR 399.84 addresses the entire stated price for covered transportation and affirmative selection of optional services. Current 14 CFR 399.85 has separate baggage and optional fee notice layers.
Final price and optional supplements.
Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 addresses unavoidable and foreseeable price components for covered fares, plus clear opt-in treatment for optional price supplements.
Compulsory charges, extras, and terms.
Current CAA guidance keeps compulsory charges, optional services, operating carrier, baggage, and change or refund conditions as distinct evidence.
U.S. freshness note: the 2 July 2026 Federal Register rule implements the court vacatur of the 2024 ancillary-fee rule and restores the earlier disclosure framework. Stale 2024 summaries are not used here.
Before you choose
Recheck the complete price at the payment screen.
Recheck the exact itinerary, seller, operating carrier, currency, fare family, services, allowance, terms, and payment screen before acting. Airline and authority information can change quickly.
For a refund, reimbursement, compensation, rebooking, protection, or legal question, use the current terms and responsible authority for the exact journey.
Do not enter passenger names, booking references, ticket numbers, card details, passport data, health information, or exact home addresses into a local worksheet.
Save your sources
Official sources for fare rules.
Current eCFR and CAA pages, the July 2026 Federal Register reset, and the official EUR-Lex regulation support the jurisdiction-labeled checklist. Iliamna's seven-part checklist is not an official validation sequence.
Recheck within 30 days, and after a relevant rule, authority, linked-guide, tool, privacy, accessibility, or documented correction change.