The cheapest way from a small airport to a far city is frequently not one ticket. It is a cheap hop to a big hub, then a separate ticket from that hub, bought as if you lived there.
Fare Sniper prices both shapes for every candidate trip and compares them honestly: four one-way tickets, or two one-ways plus a return out of the hub, against the plain through-fare.
What you get out of it
- Often a large saving. Hub-to-anywhere fares are competitive in a way that small-airport fares are not.
- Optionally a second city. A deliberate dwell in the hub of a day or three costs nothing extra in airfare and is shown as a trip shape you can filter on.
What you take on
- More than one booking, which means nobody is responsible for the connection. Read self-transfer before you buy one. That page is not optional reading.
- More moving parts - two check-ins, possibly two airports in the same city, and bags that may need collecting and re-dropping.
Because of that, every extra booking is charged about 40 euro in the ranking. A stopover has to be genuinely better, not marginally cheaper, before it is put in front of you.
The stopover engine is a Pro feature. On Free you still get direct and single-ticket connecting trips.