TripPlanner is a sophisticated airfare pricing engine designed to give instantaneous pricing for multi-stop or round-the-world plane tickets, quickly and accurately, helping you plan and budget your upcoming trip and kick start the AirTreks booking process.

Since 1998, TripPlanner has been the only tool on the web to offer immediate pricing for complex international itineraries without rule restrictions or limited standard routes. It works by assembling a database of specialty fares uniquely available to AirTreks into the most cost effective route for the destinations you’ve chosen.

TripPlanner can price trips starting and ending anywhere in the world (not just the USA) in any order, combination or complexity. It even allows you to add surface segments, so if your plan is to travel on your own for any leg, TripPlanner will calculate the price accordingly.

Here’s how to use it:

• Pick your destinations from the interactive world map. Don’t forget to include the cities you’re DEPARTING FROM and also RETURNING TO or ENDING IN.
• If necessary, rearrange the destination sequence to see if different routes or orders lower the cost. Add or remove stops.
• If you want to travel overland on your own (i.e. by train, bus, boat, camel, etc), click on the blue “i” next to the city you want to leave from on your own. Click the “overland” option.
• Once you’ve completed your route, click on the “Get Prices” button in the bottom right corner. You will be immediately taken to a landing page that will have a trip summary and a price range.
• When you’re ready to finalize your plans, simply add your contact information and submit the trip you’ve built. It will be automatically passed on to one of AirTreks’ Personal Travel Consultants who will work with you directly to optimize the itinerary and set up the flight arrangements down to the last detail.

*A note on dates: Aside from starting and ending dates, individual dates are not required until you’re ready to book, but segment dates do help your consultant provide a more accurate quote.

So where’s the price?

Two screens show your price results: after you click the “Get prices” button and after you enter your contact information. These two prices will always be the same.

After the "Get Prices" screen

After the "Contact Information" screen

What’s with the price range? Why not an exact price?

Since final prices differ dramatically depending on seasonality, passenger load and other variables, we need to provide a range to cover the varients. The dates you enter are there to give our Personal Travel Consultants an idea of seasonality and trip length when they construct more accurate quotes. Nine times out of ten the final cost of your trip will fall within the TripPlanner range.

*Prices include all taxes and fees, and in some cases travel insurance.

In order to balance speed and accuracy, TripPlanner does not include every city in the world with an airport.  If your departure city or destination city is not included on the TripPlanner map, simply choose the closest city to it geographically. The TripPlanner estimate will still be close.  When you submit the trip, simply note the actual city in the comments box and your consultant will adjust your routing by hand.

TripPlanner is best way we know to help travelers figure out the initial costs of a complex international journey painlessly and accurately.