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By: Hugh Crean, President & CEO
Update: Hotel Search is now available. Thanks for your patience.As some of you might have noticed, our site, particularly our new hotel search, is experiencing some growing pains right now.
You might be experiencing some slowness or seeing a “temporarily unavailable” message when you visit our hotel search area.
Rest assured [...]
by Roger Wong - Farecast Blogger
We’ve just launched our new Hotel search channel today! With Farecast Hotels, Farecast introduces Hotel Rate Key, an innovative new hotel pricing technology that lets you know where to stay by indicating if the current rate for a hotel is a deal or not a deal. The beta launch of [...]
by John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve had an interesting Tuesday with a lot of price changes, but this week doesn’t disappoint. Fortunately, today brings good news and more good news.
I’ll start with the good news: AirTran is at it again, launching a big sale for many flights into [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
In many cities, the answer is yes, airfares are more expensive on the weekend. In some cities it doesn’t matter, but there are only two cities Farecast tracks where you can consistently expect to pay a higher price if you shop on Tuesdays as opposed to Saturdays and you’re booking [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
I know that it’s still Summer, but here at Farecast we’re already thinking about Thanksgiving, and you should be too. To arm you with some facts that you can use while planning your trip, I’m going to review what we saw for Thanksgiving 2006.
First, the short version. Here’s the bare [...]
By: Marco Lopez, Farecast Frequent Flier
Just Launched - Deals Alert via email. The team here is thrilled at the new expansion of our deals platform, which began as a way to surface deals on our site that are based on science not marketing. Our Deals Alert is different because we apply science to [...]
By: Anne Taylor Hartzell, Farecast Family Traveler
Why is it that the cost of an airline ticket is so much more volatile than the price of a pint of ice cream? MSN Travel’s Jon Douglas shares his insights (and favorite flavor) on a topic that is near and dear to our hearts at Farecast – the [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
Here’s another look at the year-over-year trend in lowest-price airfares. Each day Farecast finds the cheapest available tickets for trips up to 90 days into the future, between nearly 2,000 city pairs. The graph below compares the average lowest price airfare in 2007 vs. 2006 for flights departing between 14 [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
Every morning I review the day’s price activity in a display where price increases show up red, and price decreases show up as green. Today I awoke to this:
That is a lot of red, far more than we see on a typical day. That image shows just a small piece [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
If you’ve been thinking about taking a trip over Labor Day weekend, but have been putting off buying your tickets, it’s not necessarily too late to get a good price.
I spent a little time digging through the data, and one gem I turned up is Phoenix to San Francisco. A [...]