Tue 13 Mar 2007
Planning a Trip - Keep Airline Costs Down
Posted by Dave Kaufman under Blogs , Informational , Online Application , Software
Sometimes you need to plan a last-minute trip fast, as Techlife wrote about in “How to Win The Amazing Race.” But more often than not leisure travel allows you to research your destination. Today’s traveler will use quite a wide range of resources, we recently covered one such in video travel research. But the bottom line is as TechCrunch details, airline costs still are a huge bulk of the cost.
Farecast, uses the simple tagline, “Know when to buy” and the longer “Top Airline Ticket Deals Based on Science, Not Marketing” to explain how their site makes timing your purchase as important as which airline. Their useful arrow system is what I like best. It gives a clear indication of what you should do, with a few varying shades of assuredness.
Farecast’s newest feature is all about finding a good deal “now”. Departing from New York for the weekend? For the week? Last minute? Farecast’s single summary of the Airline Ticket Deals will help you in 20 states and even more markets within each state.
Overall thought: Farecast is not the only game in town, but combining with several other services should make you feel comfortable that you got a great deal. What Farecast does is make it easy to use and that is something we all need in the travel game.
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March 13th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
The one thing to like about farecast (besides their gadgets) is that they understand that travel search engines would have to make their money directly from the users.
Farecast have come up with some creative ways to do it, perhaps too creative which makes the products appeal to the geeks and not to the mainstream.
As for the end customer, he is only missing one crucial aspect: no one search engine truly scans the market and brings unbiased offers from all/most the suppliers out there.
It happens due to a long list of reasons that has nothing to do with the customer’s favor, and it goes hand in hand with the current weak business models of existing travel search engines.
The winner in this competition has not shown up yet.
March 14th, 2007 at 7:33 am
@Oz - Great comment. I think many travelers often wonder, am I getting a true view of the marketplace, could I get a better one.
What are some of the reasons that you know of that you allude too? I am interested to hear more.