One in-between option is to front $25-50 and ask FlightFox (http://flightfox.com...

_delirium on Nov 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to travel around the world for a year (2011)

One in-between option is to front $25-50 and ask FlightFox (http://flightfox.com/) users to come up with an itinerary. They can't access bulk deals or anything of that sort, but they tend to be pretty good at the "working the system" angle imo, finding public but obscure booking options that I probably wouldn't have found.

njs12345 on Nov 28, 2012 [–]

I believe some of the FlightFox users are travel agents, so they probably can take advantage of special deals.