By: Jay Bartot, VP of Engineering
What is Fare Guard?
Fare Guard is a new predictive product from Farecast, the first and only airfare prediction service that protects customers from price increases for seven days from the time of the prediction. Specifically, if in the next 7 days Farecast’s predictive technology says that the current lowest price [...]
By: Kristine Marshall, Marketing Development
We are pleased to offer another new feature for your consideration – Fare Alerts. A Fare Alert allows you to track low fares for a trip via email. When you search for a fare and receive a prediction that fares are dropping, you can do more than twiddle [...]
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 [...]
By: Kristine Marshall, Marketing Development
To continually improve our beta site, we try to add new features whenever possible, and this week, we’ve added two big items for you. You can now search for fares from and to any city in the U.S., and we offer airfare predictions from over 75 U.S. departure cities to [...]
By: Kristine Marshall, Marketing Development
Have you wanted more detail about your airfare prediction? What does the arrow mean? Where does the confidence rating come from? Answers to these and other questions are only a click away.
When you run a search and receive a prediction, you can simply click on the arrow to receive [...]
By: Kristine Marshall, Marketing Development
It’s been less than a week since we expanded to more than 55 U.S. departure airports, and thousands of you have written in with your comments and suggestions. We wanted to share some of your thoughts:
I just wanted to let you know what a cool site you guys have! [...]
By: Kristine Marshall, Marketing Development
As part of our latest release, we now offer you the ability to track airfares and airfare predictions via RSS feeds. When you go to our RSS form, you can select your home airport, up to 3 destinations, a departure date, length of trip and number of passengers.
We’ll then create [...]
By: Kristine Marshall, Marketing Development
You wanted it, asked for it and demanded it. Now it’s here!
Today, Farecast launched new origination cities for airfare predictions. With all the destinations being served from more than 55 home airports, there are over 1,700 markets in which you can find an airfare prediction.
So whether you’re from the Bay [...]
Some of you have written in to share issues like, “there are times when I am willing to make a trip, but I’m not really wedded to any specific date.” Given the vast amount of data we collect and your flexibility in such cases, we provide three tools to help you decide when to [...]
After a little more than a week of being open for business, we at Farecast received hundreds of emails with our users’ questions, comments and suggestions. The top suggestions include:
“I was very interested in this site when I first read about it, but with only 2 cities, for now it is pretty worthless to [...]