John,

You should sign up for our email alerts for your city pair and when prices go down you can then begin checking for seats. There is no perfect time, but there are better times and most sales occur early in the week so shopping on Tuesday and Wednesday is more likely to have better deals than any random day.

Julie,

I am not sure why our site might not be working with your browser, if you’ll send a note to customer.service@farecompare.com we will try to figure out what might be going on. We try to get things to work in over 15 different versions of browsers, but there are times with some of scripts don’t work properly which is probably the issue and we would certainly like to fix it.

Regards,

Rick, CEO FareCompare.com

I kind of get frustrated when I read that the airline industry says they are trying to maximize profits, but continually have to be bailed out with our tax dollars.

I think it’s a great service to travelers that websites like airfare.com, onetime.com, deals.virtualtourist.com, and especially airfarewatchdog.com help users stay on top of the market. Even with the great technology that’s out there, I still feel I’m continually over-paying more and more for tickets I’ve bought and I will buy.

I wish there was more transparency in the cost of the flight. Obviously I don’t mind paying for the cost of the maintaining the plane I’m on, the wage of the pilots and stewards, the fuel needed to move my 170lbs body over a few thousand miles, etc. But then I wonder how much of that $700-$2200 goes to the CEO’s million dollar paycheck (obviously they are not doing a good job if their companies are always on the brink of bankruptcy while they have the technology to always game the consumer) or really bad TV or magazine advertising campaigns.

Joe