New website Farely lets users calculate the cost to an airline of flying a passenger between two airports.
Farely is like a Blue Book of airfares, letting you benchmark ticket prices
April 22, 2013 By 9 Comments
Kayak adds price forecasts to US and UK fare search, saying it’s better than Bing Travel
January 15, 2013 By 2 Comments
Today US metasearch site Kayak is introducing a price forecast tool similar to an airfare prediction service pioneered in 2005 by Farecast and later acquired by Bing Travel.
SteadyFare sells airline ticket price guarantees, like a next generation Farecast
September 3, 2012 By 10 Comments
US startup SteadyFare is a service that aims to help travelers decide when to buy a nonrefundable, international airplane ticket, given how prices go up and down all the time. The company allows customers pay to lock in a price found on its site for up to a month.
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Can consumer travel startups make it without being bought?
March 30, 2012 By 51 Comments
Expedia. Travelocity. TripAdvisor. Kayak. These are all household names that even your mother will likely know.
Microsoft mulls Bing Decision Engine decision and does anyone remember Bing Travel?
September 27, 2011 By 6 Comments
In the more than three years since Microsoft acquired Farecast to create it, Bing Travel has pretty much lost its identity and gotten swallowed up in the whole Bing thing.
Skyscanner launches Facebook flight search, plans Singapore expansion
June 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In the power game that is flight metasearch, steps forward can be measured in inches.
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No Bing Travel-Farecast launch in Europe this year
November 26, 2009 By 2 Comments
Disappointment for those eager to see the Farecast system on Bing Travel hit Europe and elsewhere with confirmation Microsoft will not be able to roll it out to territories outside of North America in 2009.
Microsoft is believed to have originally wanted to launch the Farecast technology behind its Bing Travel portal in at least the UK by the end of this year.
Officials in the UK office said this week that the metasearch engine and price prediction technology associated with the Bing Travel brand in the US would remain under wraps elsewhere for the time being.
Is there a Bing Travel brain drain?
October 5, 2009 By 8 Comments
I reported over the weekend that Hugh Crean, general manager of Bing Travel, is leaving the company, effective Oct. 23.
Now, it turns out, that Jay Bartot , chief principal engineer at Bing Travel, will be following Crean out the door a few weeks later, in mid-November.
The question now is whether Bing Travel can up the ante with much of the original team missing in action.
