Hello everyone!
Now that we’re entering the holiday crunch time, we wanted to update our forecast for Thanksgiving and Holiday travel. Air prices for holiday travel have come down a bit from the last time we spoke, although they are still well above last year:
We can also see the extreme extent to which prices vary [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
It has been a long time since I’ve been able to post about fares coming down, but that’s just what I’ve been seeing over the last few days. Though fuel costs are still high it doesn’t surprise me to see some fares retreating from their peaks. With US consumer confidence [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
With the summer travel season nearly upon us, I thought I’d slice and dice some Fourth of July airfares. The average summer airfare is up 20% since last year, and trips over the Fourth of July weekend are no different. However, you can still exercise some control over [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
Peak, off-peak, shoulder, high, low? When exactly are these seasons, and what do they mean for your bank account? The answer, it turns out, depends on where you’re going. Over the next few days I’ll be talking about seasonal trends in airfare. Today I’ll talk about travel within [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
As the final game of the ALCS series played out last Sunday, you could have guessed the result by looking at our search logs. When the Red Sox clinched the series, going up 11-2 in the bottom of the 8th, we saw a big jump in the number of people [...]
By: Anne Taylor Hartzell, Farecast Evangelist
Thank You Budget Travel and Travel + Leisure: Best in Travel and Top 25 Websites for 2007
Fall is off with a bang and we are thrilled to be recognized by two of the travel industry’s premier travel consumer publications, Budget Travel and Travel + Leisure for innovation in smart travel [...]
by John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
It’s been a couple of weeks since we’ve had an interesting Tuesday with a lot of price changes, but this week doesn’t disappoint. Fortunately, today brings good news and more good news.
I’ll start with the good news: AirTran is at it again, launching a big sale for many flights into [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
Here’s another look at the year-over-year trend in lowest-price airfares. Each day Farecast finds the cheapest available tickets for trips up to 90 days into the future, between nearly 2,000 city pairs. The graph below compares the average lowest price airfare in 2007 vs. 2006 for flights departing between 14 [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
If you’ve been thinking about taking a trip over Labor Day weekend, but have been putting off buying your tickets, it’s not necessarily too late to get a good price.
I spent a little time digging through the data, and one gem I turned up is Phoenix to San Francisco. A [...]
By: John Rauser - Farecast Fareologist
The Tuesday sales this week are a bit thin. Laguardia - Orlando dropped $20 for travel after September 1 in a flurry of price adjustments from Jet Blue, Delta and American. Los Angeles - Newark also fell as American lowered prices $20 for departures after September 5. Why so little [...]