Comments on: What’s Up With All the One-Day Cheap Airfare Sales? http://rickseaney.com/2008/02/20/one-day-cheap-airfare-sales/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:53:43 GMT http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Rick Seaney http://rickseaney.com/2008/02/20/one-day-cheap-airfare-sales/#comment-6220 Rick Seaney Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:04:46 +0000 http://rickseaney.com/2008/02/20/whats-up-with-all-the-one-day-sales/#comment-6220 Hi Kevin, We are working all the time to be as accurate as possible with the information. It is a never ending battle of new surcharges, new fees and packed planes. The airfares we show come directly from the airlines and are their cheapest published, they decide on a case by case basis, every time you make a query to release seats on a particular flight for their cheapest prices. We are in the process of a major overhaul of several of our tools ... we will continue to strive to help air travelers make the best buying decision. Cheers, Rick Hi Kevin,

We are working all the time to be as accurate as possible with the information. It is a never ending battle of new surcharges, new fees and packed planes.

The airfares we show come directly from the airlines and are their cheapest published, they decide on a case by case basis, every time you make a query to release seats on a particular flight for their cheapest prices.

We are in the process of a major overhaul of several of our tools … we will continue to strive to help air travelers make the best buying decision.

Cheers,

Rick

]]> By: kevin whited http://rickseaney.com/2008/02/20/one-day-cheap-airfare-sales/#comment-6219 kevin whited Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:33:53 +0000 http://rickseaney.com/2008/02/20/whats-up-with-all-the-one-day-sales/#comment-6219 One of the things that has made Farecompare less valuable than it once was is that so many fares are getting posted without the accompanying fuel surcharges, thereby skewing the results and making them misleading. For an example of this in action, just look at the NW fares on this page: <a href="http://www.farecompare.com/search/flyertalk.html?departure=HOU&fares=International&carrierFilter=NW&filter=ALL&ppm=9999&savings=99999&distance=0&sortby=ppm&p=1" rel="nofollow">Northwest Houston Airfare lookup</a> Most of them simply are not bookable at the prices listed. There are many fares that pop up on FC that are simply not bookable at the prices listed, because of this problem. It's been documented on FlyerTalk. It would be nice if some of the tech people here could fix the problem. One of the things that has made Farecompare less valuable than it once was is that so many fares are getting posted without the accompanying fuel surcharges, thereby skewing the results and making them misleading. For an example of this in action, just look at the NW fares on this page:

Northwest Houston Airfare lookup

Most of them simply are not bookable at the prices listed.

There are many fares that pop up on FC that are simply not bookable at the prices listed, because of this problem. It’s been documented on FlyerTalk. It would be nice if some of the tech people here could fix the problem.

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