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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Farecast just brought its flight Price guarantee service out of its testing stage, making it available for anyone to use on their website.
I wrote an entry summarizing how Fareguard works when Farecast first announced this new, revolutionary travel booking service. Basically, travelers can be protected against any rise in ticket prices for a week for [...]
Farecast Fareguard Fare Price Guarantee
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006I’ve posted previously on Farcast in my series Online travel booking revolution, and it seems that they are continuing to make more noise in the Web 2.0 era. Farecast has launched a new product that protects travelers from rising ticket prices if their prediction is wrong.
Traveling within Europe? Find a budget airline fast
Friday, October 20th, 2006Today, it seems like the most popular medium chosen to travel througout Europe is in the air. Flying is the quickest, easiest, and cheapest (sorry Eurail) way to move through Europe, thanks to the creation of low cost airlines, like Ryanair and easyJet.
However, with all of the interlinked airports and cities in Europe, it can [...]
Online Booking Revolution 3- Farecompare
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006In my first two installments, I covered how Flyspy and Farecast are changing the online airfare booking scene. In Part 3, I’m exploring the benefits of using Farecompare.com
Farecompare allows users to view graphs of historical airfares between destinations They have a helpful “advanced graph” allowing you to see the historical data over a 7 [...]
Online Booking Revolution 2- Farecast flight prediction
Friday, October 6th, 2006In Part 2 of my mini series “Online Booking Revolution,” (Part 1 - Flyspy) I’m going to cover Farecast.com So what is Farecast? Farecast, put simply, is a site finds the cheapest flights, and predicts what the fares will be in the future based on historical data.
If you enter a departure date within the [...]
Online Booking Revolution - Flyspy
Monday, October 2nd, 2006Expect some changes with the traditional online travel booking sites like Travelocity, Orbitz, and Expedia, because of the pressures they feel from some new, young competitors. The way online travel booking happens now already seems archaich compared to the technology available.
So I’m going to make a short series reviewing the new, young competitors [hopefully] [...]
