About Rick Seaney, CEO FareCompare

Rick Seaney

Rick Seaney, co-founder of FareCompare.com - is a world-class air travel expert.

FareCompare.com presides over a kingdom of sophisticated software that searches out fares and destinations at a billion combinations per query - while keeping track of 500 airlines serving more than 270,000 markets around the globe.

And all of Rick's data is updated continuously - in real-time.

No wonder he's the media's go-to guy for all things air travel. He's got the answers. And he loves to share his knowledge.

That's why Rick and the team created FareCompare.com - to help everyone become an air travel expert, and get the best deals first -- every time they fly.

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Winners & Losers: Airlines Cut Seats, and It’s Going to Hurt

September 22, 2009 | Posted in: Airlines, Destinations, Holiday Travel, seats

We knew it was coming – airlines slashing seats or “cutting capacity” as they like to say.

So what?

I’ll tell you what. Seating capacity is a way for the airlines to control pricing -fewer seats means more of them will be filled, and prices can be raised. Supply and demand, pure and simple.

See our holiday travel chart with the “biggest loser” cities, as well as one very big winner in the cheap flight sweepstakes.

Losers include Cincinnati, which will have lost 23% percent of its seats by the day before Thanksgiving 2009, compared to the day before the holiday, last year — and Hartford is second on the list, down 14% — followed closely by Tampa, down 12%.

The big winner? Milwaukee – it gained nearly 30% more seats in the past year.

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