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1. Nice

   Comment by Bob Wyan — August 15, 2007 @ 9:05 pm

2. Can you provide an option for your customers to get these reports in the way you have shown above? Also, can you add a feature to allow customers to get email alerts with fares that have the best overall savings?

   Thanks!

   Comment by Palal — August 15, 2007 @ 10:59 pm

3. Can I receive international flight deals flying from Tokyo? Narita Airport?

   Comment by Karen — August 15, 2007 @ 11:27 pm

4. Do you have a way to know what the abbreviations stand for?

   Comment by Karen — August 15, 2007 @ 11:29 pm

5. Hi Karen,
   The abbreviations are for city codes (3 letter) and airlines (2 letter).
   You can use the following link to look up a city code on our site.
   For City Codes (just substitute the 3 letter code in caps, this example is Tokyo)
   http://www.farecompare.com/flights/-TYO/city.html
   For Airline Codes (just substitute the 2 letter code, in caps)
   http://www.farecompare.com/flights/-DL/airline.html
   You can add international alerts from Tokyo in our alerts section of your profile. We only have international to the U.S. and Canada and vice versa at the moment (we don’t have Tokyo to Europe for example yet)

   Comment by Rick Seaney — August 15, 2007 @ 11:35 pm

6. Great idea. Any deals from SFO to BOS?

   Comment by Leslie Barrett — August 15, 2007 @ 11:52 pm

7. international deals would be great.

   Comment by mikepatel — August 16, 2007 @ 12:52 am

8. Hey,

   I need to fly up PA from NC. I live near Greensboro, NC and can fly out of Greensboro,NC (GSO), Raleigh Durham (RDU) or even Charlotte, NC.

   I want to fly up in September where I can visit Fri, Sat and Sun coming back Sunday night or Monday. I can leave out on Thursday if needed for better fare.

   What suggestions do you have on getting the best fare? The cheapes round trip I’ve seen as of today was $199.60 round trip including taxes.

   thank you,
   Kristie

   Comment by kristie — August 16, 2007 @ 1:08 am

9. Forgot to mention what part of PA. Harrisburg, PA.

   Comment by kristie — August 16, 2007 @ 1:09 am

10. It’s ok but don’t let the emails become spam… I am not sure that I want to receive 5 emails a day for International flights (which I am most interested in). How does this really differ from the normal FareCompare alerts - I really like those….

    When I get the special from UA every couple of days they are almost spam for the I am only interested in certain ones.

    I hope I am making sense…

    FareCompare alerts really are the best (for me….)

    Howard

    Comment by Howard — August 16, 2007 @ 1:19 am

11. Any roundtrip airfare deals from HNL to EWR or Reagan National in Washington D.C.?

    Comment by vincent — August 16, 2007 @ 1:59 am

12. Hi Do you ever get international flight deals. I would love to go to Barcelona Spain. Leaving from Canada, Fredericton,New Brunswick.

    Comment by Lee — August 16, 2007 @ 3:57 am

13. Wow….how very informative…book many flight per day for employer….understand and welcome all alerts for my own personal travel. Keep up the good (before most others are even aware of these deals)work.

    Comment by Marilyn Case — August 16, 2007 @ 4:39 am

14. I’d like this format! I was wondering though if there could be a feature that could provide non-stop fares from a city, say Miami, to anywhere on a specific date? Many times travelers get the itch to go somewhere that’s simple, quick, easy, cost effective and sometimes at the spur of the moment…

    Comment by Sue D. — August 16, 2007 @ 5:01 am

15. my home airport is gdl and I frequently use yyz, mostly to the states, I’m registered for fare alerts with iad, dfw but seem to get very few bulletins thru the year and always with minimal savings. If it were possible to get a regular alert with all specials out of gdl and/or yyz that would be great

    truly enjoy your site, thx Jack

    Comment by jack vanesko — August 16, 2007 @ 5:05 am

16. If you can filter the info to just send the cities that I am interested in that would be great.

    Comment by Nancy — August 16, 2007 @ 5:13 am

17. I think any alert that gives your readers a heads up to great deals is wonderful! I’d love to see it happen. Perhaps you can do some type of registration process so readers only receive emails for what they are interested in (i.e. domestic only, international only, both, etc.) to address the “spam” concerns.

    Comment by Rhonda — August 16, 2007 @ 5:29 am

18. deals

    we are flying to PV Mexico from MCI (KS) over my childrens spring break I am going a day earier Thur-to thur for the cheaper price the flights i’m seeing noware around 437 (1 stop)this week is also holy week should i book the fairs now? if there is a sale will it be blocked out

    Comment by lynda — August 16, 2007 @ 5:30 am

19. Do you have deals on international flights to and from the US? I thought you only had domestic deals..?!
    I really appreciate your service, and your ongoing efforts to deliver the best information, as well as provide education. Thanks.

    Comment by Angela — August 16, 2007 @ 6:01 am

20. Just signed up for your newsletter.
    However, I don’t see any deals for Europe in November. Are they coming??
    Thanks,
    Brian

    Comment by Brian — August 16, 2007 @ 6:33 am

21. GREAT,

    BRING IT ONLINE.

    Comment by PHILLIP — August 16, 2007 @ 6:38 am

22. It would be helpful to me if you listed the city as well, not just the codes. Thanks!

    Comment by Nicole — August 16, 2007 @ 6:43 am

23. How distant are the dates of this posting?
    Usually we fly PHL to TPA twice a year…
    but now in February 2008 we are doing a cruise and need reasonable tickets either from EWR or PHL to FLL.
    PLEASE BE THERE WHEN I NEED YOU!

    Comment by Rob + Roy — August 16, 2007 @ 6:44 am

24. I have been watching for months for a reduced fare from
    Memphis to Omaha. Do you know of any cheap fares?

    Comment by Janet John — August 16, 2007 @ 6:58 am

25. I do look forward to receiving your upcoming special airfares.Keep up the good heads up work!

    Comment by Gary — August 16, 2007 @ 6:58 am

26. Yes. More info and more deals are always appreciated.

    Comment by Pat Arledge — August 16, 2007 @ 7:01 am

27. Great idea, but why don’t I ever see reduced fares from Detroit to Minneapolis! Help me find the best deal!

    Comment by Judy — August 16, 2007 @ 7:02 am

28. I like this!

    Comment by Gina — August 16, 2007 @ 7:08 am

29. I like it, I just wish we had good deals from Pittsburgh once in awhile. Unfortunately we have become the ugly stepchild of USAIR.

    Comment by Rebecca — August 16, 2007 @ 7:09 am

30. I like this a lot. Not really sure how to go about finding these fares, do we have to enter the fare code? I guess most are expired by now. I travel all the time from DTW to YUL and lately it’s been 500+ at the cheapest. I saw the AC flight up there but it’s no longer available I look forward to getting more of these.

    Comment by Dan — August 16, 2007 @ 7:17 am

31. Rick,

    I love the site and the blog! Since you’re able to show advance purchase info, is it possible to show the minimum stay requirement associated with each fare? I often look for fares that have a no minimum stay, and it’s usually trial and error or endlessly scanning through fare rules.

    Thanks,
    Mike

    Comment by Mike — August 16, 2007 @ 7:26 am

32. Awesome….very much appreciate the info!!!!

    Comment by Jill — August 16, 2007 @ 7:32 am

33. Need to know cheaper flights from ATL to LGN non-stop roundtrip and ATL to RDU, between now and 3/2008

    Comment by Norener — August 16, 2007 @ 7:34 am

34. Great service. I also agree would be great for inclusion of international flights. Maybe start simple. Flights to Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, etc. Thanks.

    Comment by Don — August 16, 2007 @ 7:47 am

35. Can you put the City Codes in these alerts so we don’t have to look up the three letters for each line?

    Thanks for the great site.

    Comment by Jane — August 16, 2007 @ 8:03 am

36. Love the idea! Always looking for a great deal. Posting on farecompare and sending email alets would be fabulous.

    Comment by Sherri — August 16, 2007 @ 8:16 am

37. Wow. Great info. Any deals on MCO (Orlando) to LAX in late January?

    Comment by Luella — August 16, 2007 @ 8:28 am

38. This looks great. Would love to see both domestic and international.

    Comment by Sue — August 16, 2007 @ 8:32 am

39. Need to know cheaper flights from ATL to LGN non-stop roundtrip and ATL to RDU, between now and 7/2008

    Comment by Norener — August 16, 2007 @ 8:42 am

40. Love this! Useful if there is an option to see deals specific to a home airport.

    Comment by madeline — August 16, 2007 @ 8:42 am

41. put more in the alerts

    Comment by leenelsen — August 16, 2007 @ 8:58 am

42. I love the farecompares… but I too like others have posted often click all the way through to find them not available. BUT it has worked for me so I keep at it. Would love the following alerts: flights I have flagged as my favorites from my home base that drop considerably during a day, any flights from my home base that are under $100 round trip, and lastly, non stop flights from my home base that may not be on my list, but will tempt my urge for spontaneous travel.

    Comment by Marianne — August 16, 2007 @ 9:07 am

43. Wow!
    What great questions all, let me answer a few here in then grab some water to I can get to the rest.
    1) Filtering Your Alerts
    There are 2 types of Airfare Email Alerts, City Pair (between 2 cities only) and “Departure” (Get me out of town) from your departure city to top 50 cities or to all 400+ cities.
    If you are getting a lot of alerts, you have probably signed up for the departure alerts, if you only want a certain set of cities you can remove the departure alert and set up as many city pair alerts as you like.
    2) Clicking Through on Alerts “Fare Not Loaded”
    There are only a handful of companies that process the raw airfare data directly from the airlines. We are one of those handful, we process it and send it out in alerts hours before it hits the ticket booking sites.
    This is important because only 5-15% of the airplanes will fly at the cheapest price. If you are first to know you have the best shot to be in that group.
    We are working on a countdown clock so you will know when the items are loaded for ticketing. Stay tuned.
    3) Not Able to Purchase on Alerts “Sold Out”
    Airlines publish THEIR airfares 8 times a day (3 domesticly and 5 internationaly on week days, a couple of times on the weekends).
    The Airlines closely control how many seats they will release at THEIR lowest price point. They decided on a case by case basis (in theory everytime a search query is made — there are tens of millions of travel quote queries each day). They can and DO change their minds often throughout the day. The airlines make this decision on hundreds of variables like how well tickets sold last year, how well they are selling for a particular flight now, how many business travelers to the estimate they can charge more for etc.
    So both airfares change and so does the “seat inventory”. We are working on ways to better handle the situations when seats are hard to find, its a complex and obviously frustrating issue. Please bare with us as we continue to hone and refine the technology.

    Comment by Rick Seaney — August 16, 2007 @ 9:35 am

44. This is great! I’ve been a long time subscriber of your alerts, which I read faithfully, and I’ve always wondered what the raw data looked like. I really like seeing the Fare Code, but I know that most sites don’t let you see the fare code, at least not without practically booking the fare. And if there was a way to filter the above data for my city/airline combo, I would be thrilled.

    Comment by Jennifer — August 16, 2007 @ 9:45 am

45. Flying to Rome at the end of May 2008,any good deals on the horizon?Right now all the flights are empty and the fares are ridiculously high and are rising weekly.Should I wait or bite the bullet and pay these prices?

    Comment by Al — August 16, 2007 @ 9:51 am

46. I think this is great and the easier it is to read and see where flights are, that is always better! I like the sample above!

    Thanks!

    Comment by Cindy — August 16, 2007 @ 10:17 am

47. You def need to bring this online. Drop me a buzz when you do.

    Comment by Ben Popken — August 16, 2007 @ 10:17 am

48. I agree with many others. You definitely need to bring this online.

    I have signed up with some alerts to my favourite cities, but this feature would allow me to just check for cheap flights to somewhere new that I might want to travel to.

    Comment by Emily Su — August 16, 2007 @ 11:09 am

49. This is great. I would love it if you could make the results personal by sending a list of flights leaving only from my base city (SEA). It seems there are never any listings in the special e-mails from this city.

    Comment by Erin — August 16, 2007 @ 11:42 am

50. Kudos again. Love to see this great info. Thanks again!

    Comment by Bob Tarbuck — August 16, 2007 @ 11:59 am

51. Rick,
    Amazing yet again! I would love this service. I’d also love to see filtering for specific cities, as well as a list of non-stops from selected cities, especially with fare sales going on! This would be cool for those times when you know you want to take a trip, but dates are flexible and money not-so-much!
    Thanks again for all your great work. Love you guys.

    Comment by Barb — August 16, 2007 @ 1:03 pm

52. I want deals to and from Hawaii! Thanks,

    Comment by laurie — August 16, 2007 @ 2:14 pm

53. I like the idea of including it in the website cuz I hate to blog and read houndreds of blogs.

    Comment by karen — August 16, 2007 @ 4:01 pm

54. I live in Western Massachusetts and fly frequently to the Caribbean, especially St. Martin. Fares can range up to $1,000 for a coach seat. I have driven as far as Philadelphia to snag a $251RT, taxes included, flight to St. Martin. Can you develop a chart, or search vehicle, showing a destination (say St. Martin) with the lowest airfare from all the Northeastern airports? I already subscribe to e-mail fare alerts and this would enhance an already great product. This chart could be also useful for travel to Europe.

    Keep up the great work!!

    Comment by Bob Kelley — August 16, 2007 @ 6:22 pm

55. Know of any really low-priced nonstop flights rt from msp to sjc, say, from aug 19 to aug 26? Have been looking & looking; nothing affordable to date. Thanks. Pat

    Comment by pat jemie — August 16, 2007 @ 6:28 pm

56. it would be great to include fares from Canada to the US

    Comment by Kim — August 16, 2007 @ 7:36 pm

57. Wow!!!, here goes, trying to answer as many as possible:
    56) Kim, CA to US is now on the list
    55) Pat, you are in biz fare 3 day advance purchase land, price will be $400+, Sun Country I believe flies into SFO from MSP, you might try them, going to be tough on that one
    54) Bob, I have put your request on our feature list
    53 & 52) Karen & Laurie, noted and on the list as well
    51) Barb, thanks for the kind words, tie-ing in non-stops and sales is a great idea, look for that one soon
    50) Bob, thanks for the support
    49) Erin, you might want to sign up for departure alerts from SEA it will send emails to all cities from SEA - FareCompare.com Airfare Email Alerts
    48) Emily, with this response you can expect it soon
    47) Ben, I’ll definitely send you a note, all you absolutely must check out one of my favorite blogs Shoppers Bit Back Consumerist.com, Ben and his team are gurus.
    46) Cindy, noted
    45) Al, Rome is by far on of the most expensive cities in Europe to travel to. I have sent several people to check out EuroFly from New York and they report good prices and fair service. If you are adventurous take a cheap flight to Dublin and then RyanAir down from their. May season prices are a bit lower than peak summer but are pretty expensive, if you can go a tad bit earlier you might be able to catch the season price break. These trips are going to get a lot cheaper once the Open Skies pact between E.U. and U.S. starts officially next March, it will take a while but we will see a lot more competition for trans-atlantic flights, later in 2008 and early 2009.
    44) Jennifer, the new tool will have several filters for you as well as the full fare rule text
    42) Marianne see my post in 43
    41) Lee, we will be changing the alerts output soon to include both text and html which will allow us more flexiblity to put more information in the alert content
    40) Madeline, (btw one of my favorite names) noted
    39) Norener, remember European flights have $250 built in for fuel surcharges and taxes. Your best bet from ATL to LON is obviously Delta (its hub) you can fly there for under $500 out the door on Tue/Wed in December & January (except for Xmas)
    38) Sue, the tool we roll out will include both domestic and international
    37) Luella, MCO-LAX is running $320 for connecting and $420 for non-stop in late January, I would wait for a while on thos prices they are likely to drop dramatically in the next 2-3 months.
    36 & 35) Jane, Sherri codes in the alerts is now on the list and definitely will be doing the tool
    34) Don, we will definitely include europe, you can check out the maps now from our home page which takes you worldwide from your departure airport.
    32) Jill, thanks for the support, stay tuned
    31) Mike, thanks for the support and look for the min stay number and also the full text rules on this new tool
    30) Dan, we will make it easy to click through in the tool so you can quickly check out flights
    29) Rebecca, it has been tough out of PIT, I hope someone will step in and take up the slack. Hang in there
    28) Gina, thanks for the support
    27) Judy, ouch, Northwest Hub to Hub, American Airlines was fighting with NW a bit recently, if you fly on Tuesdays 14 days out in the next 2 months you can get in for $218 connecting and $250 non-stop out the door
    26) Pat, agreed, more deals is in
    25) Gary, Thanks for the support, stay tuned
    24) Janet, MEM-OMA is running $240 on Tuesdays and $260 out the door on other days until November. This isn’t a great price, but I have seen worse, tough call on this one to wait. I am a gambler normally on these, but I wouldn’t be upset if you pulled the trigger at that price. OMA is a smaller airport which normally pays a $40-80 premium unfortunately.
    23) Rob/Roy, The airlines have more control over prices than we do :), we just try to level the playing field. You should by RIGHT NOW you can get in non-stop EWR-FLL for $130-$155 on JetBlue and Continental in Februrary.
    22) Nicole, we will make it easy to look up the codes :), I am surprised no one challenged me to a city code trivia …
    21) Phillip, will do
    20) Brian, it is very choppy right now to Europe, there are a few deals for November in places like London and Dublin, depends on your departure and destination, but you should get a decent deal (remember $250 is baked into the price for fuel charges and taxes)
    19) Angela, thanks for the support and yes we have the information for international as long as it touches the U.S. and Canada, our outbound U.S. is better, we are still working on several currency issues for originating outside U.S./Canada.
    18) Lynda, MCI-PVR $470 is a decent price, but not a great one, you should be able to get in the low $400’s out the door on thursdays in March (assuming spring break is in March?) Frontier is your best bet
    17) Rhonda, definitely we’ll have the tool, I need to think more of how we might deliver this via email w/o being a nuisance
    16) Nancy, definitely
    15) Jack, you should be able to setup alerts from GDL and YYZ, be sure and do it in the international alerts section of the email and not the domestic
    14) Sue, matching up with flight schedules is both doable (since we process worldwide flight schedules) and noted as well in later comment. Good idea
    13) Marilyn, thanks for the support, stay tuned for more
    12) Lee, you can sign up for international alerts from Canada to Europe, be sure and use the International alert add area (not domestic) http://www.farecompare.com/email
    11) Vincent, those prices are running in the mid $500’s out the door for the next 3 months, don’t seem much slack in that price unfortunately
    10) Howard, we are very aware of trying not to inundate people, thus the city pair alerts, so don’t worry this issue will be a high priority for us (no need to waste our compute time and your valuable time) when its not needed
    8 & 9) Kristie, $199 is not too bad out the door, for GSO-MDT, CLT-MDT is cheapest in September at $178 out the door on NW connecting $20 more for non-stop.
    7) Mike, noted
    6) Leslie, SFO-BOS, is going to be on the Virgin American Route schedule sooon, and prices will drop, you are looking at low $300’s out the door now for September/October which isn’t too bad.
    4 thru 1) See other comment 5)
    Thanks for all the comments, I’ll try my best to give quick advice.

    Comment by Rick Seaney — August 16, 2007 @ 10:06 pm

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59. Thanks for the continued updates - keep ‘em coming!

    Comment by Elizabeth — August 17, 2007 @ 9:43 am

60. I’ve signed up for e-mail alerts from San Jose Costa Rica to South, Central, and north America why am I getting Canada, Hawaii and from U.S.? I am only interested in departing SJO.

    Comment by Pamela — August 17, 2007 @ 10:25 am

61. Thanks for the info. Could you include international fares in this too. specifically West Africa.

    Comment by Grace — August 19, 2007 @ 4:09 am

62. Please, please, please do consider an e-mail option with this sort of fare posting! I love your subscription service, but currently am signed up for way too many departure cities in an effort to catch this kind of data. Having this all consolidated in one would be so useful for trip planning and mileage running.

    Comment by Laura — August 19, 2007 @ 11:40 am

63. I would love to have a page to access the lowest fares from any city to any city that can be sorted by ppm (price per mile) or savings or etc. Also a email alert for the 10? 20? (optional number) lowest fares anywhere would be a great option to have.

    Thanks for all your hard work and a great site,
    Rainwolf

    Comment by rainwolf — August 20, 2007 @ 3:45 pm

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