Are there any sites where you can specify particular intermediate routing in between the origon and destination?

Our biz travel website isn't that great so I use Kayak quite a bit for flight searches (especially intn'l), then book what I need via an agent. However, Kayak and most sites only have point to point booking. For instance, if I want to go to from SFO to Penang via Bangkok vs whatever is spit out automatically, is there a website to do that rather than look at all the individual legs seperately?

Thanks!

 

I use onetravel.com quite a bit for this type of thing. If you know your airlines, then you know where their hubs are, and it is easily figured out.

hubs in E. Asia:
CP - HKG
SQ - SIN & ICN
TG - BKK
NH - NRT
AA - NRT
CI - TPE
BR - TPE & BKK
KE - ICN
OZ - ICN
PR - MNL
MH - KUL

 

Try ITASOFTWARE.com.
if you got to their help page it explains their routing language which will allow you to find the itinerary you want.

 

Expertflyer.com let's you specify one or two connection airport(s) when you ask for flights between two end points. You can also force a connection preference of at least one connection or two connections. And the whole search then be restricted even further, if you want, by specifying flights on up to three airlines or a global alliance. Very powerful stuff, IMO.

 

I do this frequently to have what I call my poor-man layover.
(Under 24hrs stop = a connection, not a stopover, so same price as r/t)

First of all, you should know that you can do these as multiple destination flights on most online booking sites, including specific airlines.

If the connection is legal, it *should* price out as a standard round tr

But for more complex searching I'll second ITA

There you can type in things like this:
SFO:: JL,KE BKK JL,KE
PEN:: JL,KE+



Have fun!

 

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The power and utility of the itasoftware.com site is impressive! Looks like I will be using that in the future. My only complaint is that it doesn't find any flights from BRU to CMH, connecting through LHR -- very strange.

Too bad expertflyer.com charges $5/mo.

More OTRs that give routing control:
* fly.com
* kayak.com
* bing.com/travel/
* sidestep.com

-- although these sites are a bit backwards. Instead of specifying which airports you intend to connect through, you get a large number of results with a list of all connecting airports. Each connection has a ticked checkbox, which you can uncheck to ban airports you don't want to travel through.

If anyone knows of more flight search sites that give you control over connecting airports, please post!

[edit]

Another site to do a route specific search: http://www.flightstats.com/go/Flight...tyByRouteEx.do - although in my tests it doesn't find as many flights as ITA Software.