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: Mike Fridgen - VP Marketing & Product Development
After over a year in R&D and 13 billion airfares in our system, we bring you airfare predictions from top U.S. cities to select destinations in Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean and Canada.
Searching for International trips is particularly painful this year due to higher airfares - trending 11% [...]
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
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: Marco Lopez, Farecast Frequent Flier
We have a lot to celebrate these days at Farecast - we’re proud to announce our emergence from Beta, and we’re also excited to introduce the first-ever Flight Quality Filter.
Now you can find the exact flight you want with innovative new search functionality including our Flight Quality Filter, which allows [...]
By: Marco Lopez, Farecast Frequent Flier
Great news — now Farecast Fare Alerts are even better. The new and improved Farecast Alert with Predictions helps you know when to buy and when to wait. We’re constantly tracking billions of fares, studying the ups and downs of airfares, so we know how volatile prices can be. In [...]
By: David Pelter, VP of Pricing
The big news around here this week is the introduction of Farecast Deals. Mike did a great job of explaining it in his blog post on Tuesday. One way I describe it to people is that it’s a super high-tech fish finder. We sort through millions of different airfares in [...]
By: Mike Fridgen, VP Marketing & Product
Today, we launched Farecast Deals, a new area of the website that displays top airfare deals from major airports across the country. How are our deals different than thousands of other travel sites? They’re different because our deals are based on science, not marketing. We apply science to airfare deals in [...]
By: David Pelter, VP of Pricing
From the lucky co-eds at the University of Michigan starting their spring break on February 26 to the patient children of the Boston Public Schools beginning their vacation on April 17, the spring break season is nearly upon us. Whether your ideal spring break vacation involves hitting the waves [...]