Backpacker Travel Trends and Culture Blog

Izuno Travel

Farecast by MSN

May 21st, 2008 by Jordan

farecast logo

I first heard this new site Farecast.com when they won a Webby Award (Personally I think some corporate politics where involved in that). Here’s what you need to know about Farecast. It’s an airline booking engine developed by Microsoft (that’s the first thing you notice…it also means it’s not eye candy either).

The good: Farecast is probably the first massive airline booking site where the links take you directly to the Airline’s own site (Delta, AA, Southwest etc.). Which is great because anytime you purchase through expedia, orbits, cheaptickets, etc. they will charge you a small additional fee.

Farecast also has a predictive pricing application (currently for about 30 major cities) that allows you to see if the prices are going up or down. For the few test runs I did, they all had the same “Tip: Buy” Prediction.

airline predict

also like how they handled the “6 tickets left at this price.”

farecast flight search
The bad: When I was typing in the cities, it jumped to the search results without first letting me put in my travel dates. Like it was so excited to show off the new search features it skipped important information. I did manage to get it to work eventually.

The confusing: There are plenty of advertisements from Travelocity, Cheapflights, Expedia and more booking engines on Farecast. So I don’t understand? Is Farecast trying to put their sponsors out of business? Because that’s what this booking engine will do. Somebody explain that to me.

BeboBlogger PostFacebookDiggFarkGoogle BookmarksYahoo BuzzRedditTwitterDeliciousStumbleUponShare
Tags:
Categories: Tools, Trends | Comments »

Leave a Comment

Please note: Comment moderation is enabled and may delay your comment. There is no need to resubmit your comment.

Antibiotics are organic or semi-produced brokers suppressing bacteria growth. Several drugs according to antibiotics can be employed to take care of infectious and inflammatory illnesses. Antibiotics are derived from microbial, animal or plant tissues, permeating to the entire body to inhibit micro-organism growth and improvement and ruin them. The current antibiotics like zithromax are exceptionally successful medications in a position to ruin any disease, also to remove apparent symptoms of serious human ailments in a short period.
Once you've made a decision to acquire amoxil and consider the therapy class, you need to first consult your physician. Just after he or she grants your selection you may use the drug. An essential element of the healing class is made from the fulllength drug consumption. Don't stop using Amoxicillin if you have found the first signals of progress, as symptoms may decrease without complete quality of the disease. The drug can also be effective against typical viral illness, like influenza, cool, angina etc.