Comments on: Planning a Trip – Keep Airline Costs Down http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/03/13/planning-a-trip-keep-airline-costs-down/ Welcome to Techlife, where the crossroads of Technology and Life intersect. The syndicated print column is published exclusively from this blog, a form of Digital Ethnography. Comments may appear in print. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:02:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Dave Kaufman http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/03/13/planning-a-trip-keep-airline-costs-down/comment-page-1/#comment-6447 Dave Kaufman Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:33:25 +0000 http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/03/13/planning-a-trip-keep-airline-costs-down/#comment-6447 @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. @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.

]]> By: Oz har adir http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/03/13/planning-a-trip-keep-airline-costs-down/comment-page-1/#comment-6433 Oz har adir Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:55:25 +0000 http://www.dkworldwide.com/techlife/archives/2007/03/13/planning-a-trip-keep-airline-costs-down/#comment-6433 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. 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.

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