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Yes, it's called Kayak. Enter when and where you want to fly, select your airline alliance, and you're good to go.

http://www.kayak.com/
It's the only aggregator site I can handle. Shop by actual price and other parameters.

Hmm, looks interesting, but even though I'm a Google fanboi, I'll probably stick with:

http://kayak.com/ for searching flights (check out http://kayak.com/explore ! )
http://flightaware.com/ for tracking flights (what is that plane that just passed overhead? Where is my connecting flight arriving from?)
http://tripit.com/ for itinerary scheduling / calendaring / alerting

All have pretty nifty Android / iOS apps as well... Google Market doesn't list anything for their Flight search as of this my lunch break :P

Hmm, looks interesting, but even though I'm a Google fanboi, I'll probably stick with:

http://kayak.com/ for searching flights (check out http://kayak.com/explore ! )
http://flightaware.com/ for tracking flights (what is that plane that just passed overhead? Where is my connecting flight arriving from?)
http://tripit.com/ for itinerary scheduling / calendaring / alerting

All have pretty nifty Android / iOS apps as well... Google Market doesn't list anything for their Flight search as of this my lunch break :P

P.S. Just looked at Bing Travel, and it seems like a cheap knockoff of Kayak, which is much more robust: http://www.kayak.com/

Heh, sounds funny.

FWIW, we've been using http://kayak.com/ a lot lately for that kind of thing... it has lots of relevant useful features (shows what prices other people have been getting to your destination displayed on a calendar, automatically opens your searches in competitors' engines, etc.), so I'd say that's the current benchmark for a good air travel search site.

Unfortunately for Microsoft, I instinctively avoid all things branded Microsoft.

There flight search is a direct rip off of kayak.com. Its so blatant that I have to assume they are licensing the tech from that site directly. If not its just another use of Redmond's photocopiers.

This price competition is because of services like Priceline and Kayak.com that only allow you to compare based on price and time, and don't include any of the other amenities that carriers may/may not offer.
If there are any enterprising developers out there, there may be a market for this...

Aside from GMail, here are some Ajax sites that are MORE usable thanks to Ajax: * http://maps.google.com/ * http://www.meebo.com/ * http://www.kayak.com/ * http://www.writely.com/

The great thing about these here internets, is that someone has almost always done it already.

-Ted

I'm sure this is in response to http://sidestep.com/'s recent steal of some of Orbitz's market share. It allows users the ability to compare multiple sites prices (thus the deep linking) via their toolbar. Expedia, Orbitz, and travelocity all have deep ties and were founded by the same people who are now founding http://kayak.com/.