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Affordable Holiday Fare Options

By: David Pelter, VP of Pricing
We all have seen the recent news stories about how expensive traveling around the holidays can be. No question that if you need to leave on Dec. 23 and return on a peak day such as Dec. 26, you may be priced out of the market.
The good news is [...]

Testing Fare Guard

By: Kristine Marshall, Marketing Development
Earlier today, we launched a test site which allows users to try out and provide feedback on our newest feature – Fare Guard. With Fare Guard, you can protect the lowest fare for one week without buying a ticket.
How does it work? Well, the basic steps are:

Guard today’s lowest [...]

Farecast’s Predictive Accuracy is 70%-75%

By: Hugh Crean, President & CEO
Each month, Farecast produces predictions from over 75 airports nationwide, between 2,000+ markets (origination airport to destination airport) and for every travel date combination 90 days into the future (2 to 8 day trips).
So how many predictions do we produce? 37.8 million predictions each month (2,000 markets * 90 [...]

A Fun Way to View Air Traffic

By: Kristine Marshall, Marketing Development
While we like to fly places to go on vacation or visit family and friends, have you ever pondered how many planes are in the sky at a given moment? What does the FAA see when they look at the sky?
Aaron Koblin, a member of the Department of Design|Media [...]