With immense pleasure, we are happy to share that Farecast is the winner of the Webby Award in the Travel category.
This is an unparalleled honor. With nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 US states and over 60 countries worldwide, the 12th Annual Webby Awards is the biggest in history and continues to be the leading [...]
By: Hugh Crean
We’re excited to confirm that Farecast has been acquired by Microsoft! This acquisition creates tremendous opportunities for the Farecast team and our customers. We look forward to sharing more details in the weeks to come. On behalf of the Farecast team, thank you.
Farecast has just been nominated for the 12th Annual Webby Awards! (It’s “the Oscars of the Internet”). There is some great competition in the travel category, but with your vote, you can help us bring home the Webby. Make sure to register and vote by May 1st.
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
This is part three of a series on seasonal trends in airfare for travel to different parts of the world. Part one covered travel within the US, and part two discussed travel from the US to Mexico and the Caribbean. You can also check out my airfare seasonality [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
This is part two of a series on seasonal trends in airfare for travel to different parts of the world. Part one covered travel within the US, and tomorrow I’ll talk about travel from the US to Europe. You can also check out my airfare seasonality video on [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
I’ve put together a video with some summer travel tips to accompany the airfare seasonality posts that I’ll be publishing over the next few days. The video covers domestic travel and travel from the US to Europe, with a focus on summer travel strategies.
Tips include:
how much extra you can [...]
By Marco Lopez, Farecast Frequent Flier
Farecast has been nominated as a finalist for CNET’s Webware 100 Awards, in the Commerce & Events category. The Webware 100 Awards recognizes innovative new Web 2.0 services. It’s now up to users to decide who qualifies for the top 100. Farecast is one of 300 Finalists selected by CNET [...]
By: Mike Fridgen - VP Marketing & Product Development
Based on feedback from our most frequent visitors, we have changed our airfare prediction and hotel rate key colors to match up with the familiar stoplight metaphor. As we’ve started embedding our prediction arrows on pages where the icons aren’t supported by a textual [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
Virgin Atlantic has initiated a fare sale for travel to London from a number of US cities. The biggest impact on prices is for travel starting on May 26 through the Summer, where prices have fallen $100 to $200 or more since yesterday. For example, this trip [...]
By Kristine Marshall, Product & Marketing
Seattle, hometown of Farecast.com, played host last week to the three top 2008 presidential candidates – Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. As we Farecasters battled our way through traffic caused by various rallies and events, we began to wonder. How much did the candidates spend on their air [...]