* Save when you fly with FareFirst
I’ll bet that most of you travel by air and have the scars to prove it. If you care about how much you pay for your flights then here’s a Firefox extension that you should check out: FareFirst published by FareCompare.
When installed FareFirst provides an icon in the Firefox status bar. Mousing over the icon pops up a panel showing the routes you have configured and the lowest current prices. Clicking on a link in the panel takes you to the FareCompare site so that you can explore the available flight options.
Right clicking the icon reveals the configuration menu where you define, modify, or delete the routes and maximum pricing you are interested in. The menu also allows you to force a pricing check as well as stop an update.
If a lower route pricing becomes available after an update, FareFirst will alert you via a pop up a notification panel. FareCompare claims that they mine “over 30 million domestic and international fares and rules from over 400 airlines.”
An interesting service provided by FareCompare is “Fare Trend”. Fare Trend charts the historical fare prices for 77,000 city pairs covering the U.S and Canada along with about 6 million fares updated as often as three times a day to derive a rating and a fare trend graph.
Another resource on the site is the explanation of Y-Up and Q-Up fares. Never heard of these? That’s because Y-Up and Q-Up fares, which give you first class travel for the cost of walk-up coach pricing are an industry secret! Yep, just check out FareCompare’s guide to Y-Up and Q-Up fares and be amazed.
FareCompare is a great service that has really annoyed me: I just got back from a trip to London and it could have saved me a lot of money. Even worse, FareCompare is free.
