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TechCrunch
, February 10, 2008Farecast Now Offers International Flight Price Predictions
Farecast, which launched in May 2006, tries to predict flight price changes for consumers so they know whether to buy now or wait. In late 2006 they added guarantees, effectively allowing consumers to buy insurance policies against price increases in the event they decide to wait. More recently, Farecast added hotel bookings as well.
TechCrunch
, August 29, 2007Farecast Now Provides Data On Fairness Of Hotel Pricing
But the service also looks at each of the hotels to let you know if it's priced attractively or not. For most hotels, the star rating isn't enough to tell if the price is too high or low v. local competition.
Wired Blog
, August 29, 2007Farecast Extends Price Prediction Tools to Hotels
With Farecast's new tool you can get an idea of the market at a glance and when combined with more traditional tools - like a wide variety of reviews - Farecast's hotel price finder should help you save money on the rooms you need.
downloadsquad
, April 5, 2007Take to the skies with Farecast
Whether you're taking an impromptu trip to Milwaukee, WI next weekend or making arrangements for next year's Super Bowl in Glendale, AZ, consider using Farecast to book your next flight.
Consumerist
, March 14, 2007Farecast Deals Searches For Cheap Airline Tickets Using 'Science'
We like Farecast. The first time we ever used it we got a non-stop flight home to Chicago on Thanksgiving weekend for $119. That was nice. Now Farecast has a "deals" section where they use their fare prediction "science" to find the best deals. It's nifty because compares the "deal" with the average fare.
Webware
, March 12, 2007Farecast Deals Site Launches
The defining difference between Farecast Deals and other deals sites is content aggregation. Whereas other sites can get their deals from tipsters and marketers, Farecast actually populates them from its own data. Farecast claims it would take someone "50,000 individual searches" to find the deals they do, and that's just for one city.
TechCrunch
, March 12, 2007Farecast Deals Engine Launches
This morning, Farecast is launching a new deals feature. Unlike other travel sites, where deals are generally excess inventory being dumped at a low price, Farecast is saying they'll find particularly good deals based on their analysis of the airline pricing stream which goes through their engine every day.
Yahoo! Tech
, March 12, 2007Farecast Adds Top Deals Search
If you haven't checked out Farecast since it first launched, it's time for another look. Just to check out the city-to-city feature, I popped in some flights from Newark to Atlanta in early April and found that Farecast predicts the prices will go down in the next seven days. I was advised to wait. It's such a welcome feature that helps take some of the guesswork out of deciding whether you're getting the best air fare deal.
Techcrunch
, January 31, 2007Farecast Takes $12 Million More
The company has now raised $20.6 million over three rounds. How are they doing? The model seems to be attractive to consumers. Farecast VP Marketing says in just the last few months since launch they’ve “dropped off $200 million in “potential” revenue to airline websites,” a fraction of which will have resulted in actual sales.
John Cook's Venture Blog
, January 31, 2007Farecast lands $12 million
New investors include Sutter Hill Ventures, former Expedia Chief Executive Erik Blachford and Par Capital Management, a Boston hedge fund that holds large stakes in US Airways, Priceline.com and Zillow.com.
VentureBeat
, January 31, 2007Farecast, the airfare prediction site, raises $12.1M more
Farecast.com™, the young Seattle start-up that now owns the niche of predicting airfares, and which continues to roll out new features (like letting you guarantee low fares), has raised $12.1 million more.
SearchEngineLand
, January 22, 2007Farecast Offers Insurance Policy on Airfares
Farecast tracks over a hundred pricing indicators to give travelers an idea of when to book to get the best price (here's an introduction to the service). Next to each airfare displayed on Farecast is a prediction of whether the price of the flight will rise or fall in the next 7 days, along with a confidence level for that prediction. The more confident Farecast is, the more likely you'll see Fare Guard available.
Consumerist
, January 22, 2007Farecast Launches FareGuard
Farecast, the awesome future technology airfare prediction site, fully rolled out a new service that lets you lock in low fares.
Using smart algorithms and lots of servers, Farecast can predict whether fares will rise or fall. Now for $9.95 you can "protect" the lowest fare from your search for the next seven days.
Webware
, January 22, 2007Farecast rolls out Fare Guard: Insurance for plane tickets
Getting burned on airline ticket-price increases stinks. Today, the ticket-price guesstimating site Farecast (our initial Farecast coverage here) rolled out a new feature called Fare Guard. This $10-per-ticket service lets you lock down the lowest price provided by Farecast for seven days. If the price of the ticket goes up during that time, you can still purchase it at the original, locked price.
VentureBeat
, January 21, 2007Farecast rolls out service to lock into low airfare
Farecast, the web site which lets you see if airfares are headed lower or higher, has introduced a new, useful feature: A way to lock into a low price.
TechCrunch
, January 21, 2007Farecast’s Price Guarantee on Flights Goes Live
They’ve been testing a product which allows users to lock in a price found on the site for up to a week. For $10, customers will be protected against any price increases for that flight. This is, effectively, the purchase of an insurance policy against the risk of future price increases.
John Cook's Venture Blog
, January 21, 2007Farecast backs up airfare predictions with Fare Guard
I know a few budget conscious travelers -- myself included -- who have kicked themselves for not pulling the trigger on an airfare only to see the price rise by $100 or $200 a few days later.
Consumerist
, November 15, 2006Lock In Cheap Airfare
Our favorite airfare search site has just unveiled an exciting new service called Fare Guard. One of Farecast's features is predicting whether airfare will rise or fall within a certain time span. Now, with Fare Guard, Farecast will lock in the low fares for you.
John Cook's Venture Blog
, November 13, 2006Farecast backs up airfare predictions with Fare Guard
…(T)he company will only offer Fare Guard on those tickets where it predicts that prices are going to fall or hold steady over the next seven days. That's about 30 percent of the 37.8 million predictions offered on the Web site each month, said Hugh Crean, chief executive of Farecast. However, he said, it could be expanded to other predictions next year.
USA Today
, November 13, 2006Farecast to back up fare predictions with cash
Farecast, the relatively new airfare booking site that attempts to predict to users whether airfares will rise or fall, is now "going to put its money where its mouth is," according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The paper writes that the company today will begin testing its new Fare Guard product, which promises to refund money to customers who see Farecast's fare predictions prove wrong after purchasing tickets on site.
VentureBeat
, November 13, 2006Farecast introduces way to lock into a low fare
Farecast, the web site which lets you see if airfares are headed lower or higher, has introduced a another very useful feature: A way to lock into a low price.
TechCrunch
, November 13, 2006Farecast Selling Airline Ticket Price Guarantees
Farecast tells you a ticket's price is going to drop and recommends that you wait, you can pay the Fare Guard fee to lock in access to the lowest price of that day for the next week. If you have purchased Fare Guard and the price instead goes up, Farecast will send you the difference between what you ended up having to pay and the price you locked in with them.
ClickZ
, October 9, 2006The New Vertical Search
What an extraordinary concept. If you haven't seen it, Farecast is an airline ticket price forecast engine.
What Farecast does is give you a look into the "to be." They're taking all the data that's available to them and using it to its (and our) advantage. This novel use of data to generate a higher-level of understanding and a deeper value is truly amazing.
ajaxian
, October 6, 2006Farecast: Travel Help
Farecast is a new beta web application that allows you to be smart about your flights. We all know that flight costs go up and down, and this tool tries to visually show you where to travel, when to travel, and more.
It has a nice rich interface including search refinement, mapping, integrated graphing and grids.
Read/WriteWeb
, September 29, 2006Watch Out Google, Vertical Search Is Ramping Up!
Farecast is just purely brilliant. I am not sure if it is going to be widely adopted - because it is sophisticated - but it is a gem of an idea. This travel search engine applies idea of a stock market to help you decide when to buy an airline ticket.
VentureBeat
, September 24, 2006Farecast expands airfare predictions; just know when to use them.
Farecast, the start-up that predicts whether airfares are about to go up or down, has expanded predictions for 20 more airport destinations, bringing the total to 75 airports.
Datamation
, August 29, 2006Farecast Now Predicts Prices for 55 Cities
Farecast, the slick new site that predicts whether air fares between particular cities will go up or down, has expanded its service to cover more than 55 U.S. airports...
It's the only site that's mastered enough mathematics to predict whether you should buy a ticket today or wait a few days because the price is likely to drop.
John Battelle's Searchblog
, August 21, 2006Farecast Goes National
Quick: What post on Searchblog elicited the most comments of any post ever? Answer: My post inviting you all to join the limited beta of Farecast, the airline pricing search engine with a twist. So, it's worth noting that Monday, Farecast goes national.
USA Today
, August 21, 2006New website finds fares, predicts whether they'll rise or fall
When you search for airfares, do you often find yourself wondering: "Should I book now, or will fares go down if I wait?" Now, there's a travel website that claims it can answer that question for you. Farecast.com lets customers search fares on routes between more than 50 U.S. airports.
TechCrunch
, August 21, 2006Farecast launches for 55 US cities
The site was named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 coolest sites on the web this year. It's a real crowd pleaser and I'm sure many people will be interested in trying their services out now that they've extended their reach.
News.com
, August 21, 2006New service tracks rise and fall of airline prices
Farecast, an airline ticketing service, has opened up its Web site to the public, offering data on 55 cities. But the company doesn't sell tickets--it tells you when to buy them.
GigaOm
, August 21, 2006Farecast Goes Coast to Coast
Now the middlemen are being circumvented again; those sites seem terribly old-school. Airlines are building out good web sites of their own, and tools like Farecast make it simple to see who actually offers what you're looking for.
SiliconBeat
, August 21, 2006Farecast, the airfare predictor, launches nationwide
We wrote about this useful service in late June, when the company launched a test version covering flights originating from Seattle or Boston. As of Monday, it covers 1,800 markets, including 55 origination cites -- including San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose -- for our readers in Silicon Valley.
Consumerist
, August 21, 2006Farecast Goes Coast to Coast
Our favorite predictive airfare search engine has expanded past only servicing Seattle and Boston. As of this morning, Farecast supports over 50 cities, including New York City, LA, Washington, Chicago and many more.
John Cook's Venture Blog
, August 21, 2006Farecast flies national with airfare prediction service
In addition to the national launch, the company has added advertising through Yahoo and RSS tracking so that people can keep tabs on changing prices of flights.
Search Engine Watch
, August 21, 2006Farecast Adds Cities To Flight Fare Prediction Tool
I know I will use this tool. I just hope they add some more cities.
BoingBoing
, August 21, 2006Farecast predicts cheapest plane-fares for 55 cities
Gridskipper
, August 21, 2006Farecast Metastizes, Flyers Rejoice
Though we've written about Farecast before, when the site was in baby beta, now our baby's all grownsed up. Using statistical analysis of fares in the past, Farecast tells you when and if you should buy a ticket or whether it be wiser to hold off as prices will drop in the future.
VerticalSearch.net
, August 21, 2006Travel Search - Farecast
A secondary point (if it was even mentioned) was the addition of RSS feeds for particular city pairs for a particular date (in other words, information on the trip you want to take). This should have been the lead story... What Farecast now provides is smart and actionable information.
Lifehacker
, August 21, 2006Airfare prediction site Farecast adds a city near you
Airfare prediction web site Farecast gets a lot more useful today, as they up their destination cities from 2 to over 55.
Gadling
, August 21, 2006Farecast Launches
The site also offers RSS feeds for automatically tracking fares and predictions over time. Pretty sweet. eager to give it a whirl.
MetaFilter
, August 21, 2006Like a magic eight ball for airfare
Buying a plane ticket? Farecast, which went nationwide today, can help (even though it's still in beta). Just tell it where and when you want to go and it'll try to predict the cheapest time to buy.
PodTech.Net
, August 4, 2006Gnomedex: How Blogging Can Impact Startup Awareness
Mike Fridgen of briefly introduces the airline fare prediction site to the audience at Gnomedex, and provides interesting statistics and anecdotes on how Farecast benefited from the blogging and social media community.
SearchInsider
, July 28, 2006Vendor Search Innovation
Newcomer Farecast has sophisticated technology that looks at pricing, scheduling and availability (among 115 indicators) to predict prices on specific flights and thereby give travelers an idea of when to book in order to get the best price. Farecast predicts whether fares will rise or fall over the next seven days.
PodTech.Net
, July 14, 2006Gnomedex 6.0: FareCast - Forecasting Airfare For Consumers
FareCast is creating a better shopping experience for airfare with price prediction and direct-to-carrier booking.
GigaOm
, July 5, 2006Online Travel: Out With Old, In With Next Web
Farecast's site predicts how airline tickets will fluctuate, helping the buyer purchase when the ticket is cheapest.
GridSkipper
, June 30, 2006Find Cheap Flights With Farecast
New kid on the travel site block Farecast is certainly ambitious. Using statistical analyses, Farecast promises to predict whether airfare prices will rise or fall for a flight, letting users decide whether to purchase tickets now or later.
TheLobby.com
, June 29, 2006Introducing Farecast
An interesting new website claims to use statistical information to help users decide when the cheapest tickets can be purchased for flights.
Naked Conversations
, June 28, 2006Farecast Predicts Airfare Trends
This is a good idea. Many of us have lost any sense of loyalty to single airlines through the variations on mileage plus programs and viewing our travel as a marketplace where price is the driving factor, is in fact what people are doing.
SEOmoz.org
, June 27, 2006Farecast, An Evolution in Travel Pricing Prediction
What has Farecast done right: Easy to use, useful high quality information, simple, attractive GUI, spiffy AJAX functionality (at least in Firefox - IE was giving me trouble with those graphs), strong information scent - I know exactly what I can do, where to go and how to interpret the data.
Peter Greenberg, Travel Editor, NBC's Today Show
, June 27, 2006Looking Into the Fare Future [Article] (Registration Required)
In a world of secret fares and special insider deals, the idea of reliably, consistently getting an open, honest, competitive fare might seem a bit revolutionary. With any luck, it will be.
Cnet Blog Web 2.0
, June 27, 2006Farecast goes in to public beta
If you ever fly from Seattle or Boston, definitely check out Farecast
Datamation
, June 27, 2006Farecast Helps You Predict Cheap Flights [Article]
Farecast is a radical step toward greater control of the buying process by the public. If its predictive ability is as good as it appears, Farecast can shift some "revenue management" power back to consumers that was lost when carriers perfected computerized fare-setting.
BoingBoing
, June 27, 2006FareCast for finding best day to buy plane tickets goes public
Farecast, a site that predicts what date you should buy a plane ticket to get the best deal, has concluded its private beta and is now open to the public. I've been dreaming of a service like this for years.
Lifehacker
, June 27, 2006Get cheap airline tickets with predictions from Farecast
I was able to take a look around Farecast while it was in private beta, and I personally really like the service.
SiliconBeat
, June 27, 2006Farecast, the airfare prediction company, can save you $
From time to time a new product arrives that we know we can really use. Farecast is one of them.
Search Engine Watch
, June 27, 2006New Players in Travel Search [Article]
Just as meteorologists try to predict the weather, several PhDs at Farecast are attempting to predict airline prices.
TechCrunch
, June 26, 2006Farecast airfare prediction engine opens public beta today
The airfare prediction Farecast launches its public beta today, enabling travelers to leverage more than 60 billion records of past airfare prices to predict whether prices will rise or fall over the next 7 days.
Mashable.com
, June 26, 2006FareCast Launches, Find Cheap Flights
In addition to the effortlessly simple interface, the great thing about Farecast is that it puts the consumer in control.
kottke.org
, June 13, 2006Farecast
The killer airline reservation app that I've been wanting for several years would tell you when to buy your ticket for a particular flight?A new site called Farecast does exactly that.
Consumerist
, June 8, 2006Farecast Predicts Airfare
How would you like a crystal ball for airfare? Farecast aims to do just that. In addition to being an excellent fare search site, the new service uses sophisticated computer simulations to predict whether prices are rising or falling.
John Cook's Venture Blog
, May 24, 2005Farecast Getting Ready to Fly With Airfare Analysis Technology
The service could come in handy, with the CEO of American Airlines' parent company saying that passengers will have to get used to higher fares because "that's the reality of living in a world of $70-a-barrel oil."
John Battelle's Searchblog
, June 6, 2006On FareCast: Rip Me Off No More
I like how Farecast puts the consumer back in control of the data. The interface is very slick and the idea is quite promising.
Alpha Cnet Blog
, June 05, 2006Farecast and Mpire: Smart Sites That Will Save You Money
(Farecast) gives a confidence level on its recommendations, and it can make you a lot smarter about spending your money.
TechCrunch
, May 26, 2006Use Farecast to Find Flight Deals
The site is well designed, and the interface clearly communicates pricing and predictive information.
TechDirt
, May 26, 2006What If You Could See Airline Pricing Algorithms?
Price transparency is good for the consumer, and the mere fact that a site like this gets buzz is symptomatic of the frustration that consumers feel for the whole ticket buying process. If Farecast is able to accurately predict this market and increase price transparency, consumers will win out by getting some valuable insight on a very confusing process.