Farecast Launches Canada Airfare Predictions

Canadian travelers now have access to global air and hotel search, free airfare predictions and planning tools

SEATTLE– January 17, 2008 — Farecast.com, the smart travel search site, announced today that it now offers its free and accurate airfare predictions from most major Canadian airports. Canadian travelers now have access to Farecast's proprietary prediction technology, database of 175 billion airfares, and smart travel search experience, which allows them to easily compare results from hundreds of websites to find the cheapest flights from all major airports in Canada.

"Canadian travelers can now leverage the power of Farecast.com's technology to make smart decisions when purchasing airfare," said Hugh Crean, president and CEO, Farecast.com. "Canada is the next step in our strategy to bring Farecast predictions and smart travel search to consumers worldwide."

Farecast.com Smart Travel Search


Farecast.com's smart travel search is based on science, not marketing and allows online travel shoppers to easily compare, filter and sort flight results for hundreds of airline and agency websites to find the right trip. In addition, Farecast offers consumers several unique features to help consumers know when to buy, when to fly and where to stay:
  • Free Airfare Predictions:Farecast is the only site that helps consumers answer the question "should I buy or wait?" when shopping for airline tickets. Farecast.com predicts whether low fares for your trip will go up, down or stay the same in the next seven days, empowering consumers to make the right purchasing decision. To do this, Farecast has a team of PHDs and data miners aggregating and analyzing a tremendous amount of data - more than 175 billion airfare observations to date.
  • Lock In your Fare with Fare Guard:Farecast puts its money where its mouth is and backs up its predictions with Fare Guard. If Farecast predicts lowest fares will drop, it provides Fare Guard (for $9.95) and will pay you the difference if those fares rise.
  • Deals Based on Science, Not Marketing:Farecast's airfare deals aggregate all the lowest fares available each day and apply proprietary technology to extract the best deals from your city.
  • Farecast Fare Alerts:Only Farecast Alerts offers free airfare predictions and price history for your specific trip. The Washington Post rated Farecast Alerts the highest among all alerts they tested.
  • Flexible Travel Tools:Farecast's flexible tools help consumers answer the questions "where to travel" and "when to travel" with easy to use map and graph search views. The map search view shows all destinations within a given price range. The graph search view shows lowest fares by departure date over up to 90 days in the future.
  • Hotel Rate Key:Farecast rate key utilizes historical rates for thousands of hotels to help consumers know at a glance if the current rate for a hotel is a deal or not a deal. In addition to its unique Hotel Rate Key, Farecast.com now offers consumers the ability to shop more than 80,000 hotels in thousands of cities worldwide. Farecast Hotels offers a clean interface with useful tools to help consumers find the best hotel for their needs.

Now Serving Intra-Canada Predictions


Farecast offers full airfare search for anywhere you want to fly from and within Canada. Free airfare predictions are available from more than 70 markets to and from destinations within Canada and the US. Canada Airports served include, but are not limited to: Nanaimo Airport (YCD), Edmonton International Airport (YEG), Halifax International Airport (YHZ), Kamloops Airport (YKA), Kelowna Airport (YLW), Ottawa International Airport (YOW), Quebec Airport (YQB), Metropolitan Area (YQM), Regina Airport (YQR), Thunder Bay Airport (YQT), Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL), Vancouver International Airport (YVR), Winnipeg Airport (YWG), Saskatoon Airport (YXE), Prince George Airport (YXS), Metropolitan Area Airport (YXU), Calgary International Airport (YYC), Victoria International Airport (YYJ), St. John's Airport (YYT), and Pearson International Airport (YYZ).

Farecast Airfare Predictions


Unlike any other travel website, Farecast.com saves online travel shoppers money with an airfare prediction for their specific trip. In April 2006, Navigant Consulting tested over 44,000 airfare predictions confirming that Farecast's predictions are 74.5% accurate, and that travelers purchasing two tickets could save an average of $55 by using Farecast's airfare predictions. The company's patented airfare prediction shows whether the lowest fares for their trip are rising or dropping. Farecast.com also provides expected price movements, confidence levels, historical prices and buying tips when customers search for flights. To learn more about the proprietary airfare prediction, see the Our Technology page of Farecast.com.

About Farecast, Inc.


Farecast.com is the smart travel search site that helps you buy with confidence. Launched in 2006, Farecast.com empowers you to know when to buy with airfare predictions and know where to stay with hotel rate keys. Farecast was recognized as one of Web 2.0's "Best Travel Sites," one of PC World's 20 Most Innovative Products, "Best of What's New" by Popular Science, one of TIME Magazine's "50 Coolest Websites" and one of the "Best Trip Planning Tools" by Business Week readers. Farecast is headquartered in Seattle, WA. Buy travel smarter at www.farecast.com.

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