To hear Rick Seaney tell it, Google’s pending buy of ITA Software — and the uncertainty surrounding it — is impacting a whole lot of the travel industry.
Google-ITA Software deal: Who is missing from the FairSearch plot?
October 27, 2010 By 8 Comments
Those behind the FairSearch anti-Google movement will clearly have been delighted with the acres of coverage the launch received yesterday.
New FareCompare app uses Apple push notifications
August 25, 2010 By 7 Comments
A new FareCompare iPhone app, When-to-Fly Airfare Alerts, treats user-requested price drops like breaking news.
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New website for TravelFusion, plots Twitter streams and trip scoring system
March 24, 2010 By 5 Comments
Travel metasearch engine TravelFusion has relaunched its main B2C website with a number of new features and ahead of a series of other product improvements.
Fare Alert 2.0: FareCompare in mashup of Google Maps and Twitter
December 7, 2009 By 12 Comments
FareCompare introduced a Twitter beta today that mashes-up Google Maps, FareCompare deal tweets from consumers’ favorite departure airports and Twitter users who are following those alerts from selected airports.
Fare alerts on social networks like Twitter and Facebook have become a hot arena as companies like FareCompare, Travelzoo, Travelocity and countless others vie for bookings and the allegiances of deal-hungry consumers.
FareCompare’s Twitter beta takes the competition to the next level by attempting to further engage consumers with a Web 2.0, community-oriented flavor.
Gladiators Travelzoo, FareCompare in meta Twitter battle over fare alerts
December 3, 2009 By 3 Comments
In the last couple of weeks, Fly.com, with a huge marketing assist from parent company Travelzoo, introduced 20 Twitter accounts, including LAFares, DCFares, CHIFares, BOSFares and SEAFares, and plans to tweet followers airfare deals from these airports perhaps three times a week.
Deal-publisher Travelzoo promoted Fly.com’s new Twitter accounts to millions of Travelzoo’s newsletter readers in e-mails with the headline, “NEW: Real-Time Fare Alerts from Your Home City,” and some of Fly.com’s accounts have already picked up around 2,500 followers.
The development signals that a battle royale is under way between Fly.com and fellow flight-metasearcher FareCompare and others for the hearts and minds of the Twitteratti over airfare deal alerts. FareCompare launched 170 Twitter accounts, such as flyfromLAX, early last Summer, but has yet to attract the kind of following for its individual accounts that Fly.com has attracted in a couple of weeks.
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Maybe FareCompare will beat Bing-Farecast to Europe?
November 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
News this week that Microsoft’s fully functioning Bing Travel will not be hitting Europe in 2009 means that another site from the US with air price data prediction tools at its heart, FareCompare, might make it first.
Bing says the complexity of gathering historic data about fares over any given period is time consuming and has affected its ability to launch the Farecast system overseas.
FareCompare faces similar issues on the number crunching front, but has a roadmap which could see it outside of the US sooner than Bing Travel.
