I got hooked on to cleartrip because of the simple, neat layout of the website. Their placement of the start and return flights next to each other is very userfriendly, especially with the total sum of the charges being written at the top. I had booked around 4 trips from there, and was satisfied with the rates. But this was before I checked out the rates on the websites of the airlines itself.
This month I wanted to particularly to from Jet Airways. And at the suggestion of a friend, I checked out the rates at jetairways.com as well.
To my shock, there was a 1100 Rs/- difference between cleartrip and jetairways!!!!!! This confirms what my friend was telling me that these travel websites do not give as good an offer as the airlines direct websites do. I have now vowed never to use cleartrip for booking my tickets again, especially not for jet airways. I may still use to compare the timings for all the flights, since their layout is still the best. But not for booking.