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Tracy Stewart on Friday, March 28, 2008 at 11:27 AM to
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The people have spoken! You like your city-to-city alerts, but it seems that a lot of you would like the option of receiving alerts for nonstop flights only. None of this connecting flight/layover mumbo jumbo for you, no sir. And some of you mentioned that you'd like to slim down your alerts to include just fares for your preferred airport, instead of from all nearby airports. Great idea! We're working on that one too, and should have these new features out to you very soon.
Anything else you'd like to see from us? Suggestions? New features? Hydrolics? You're obviously a smart people (not to mention, attractive!) and we love to hear your ideas, so do let us know. Comment below.
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George Hobica on Saturday, March 08, 2008 at 3:04 PM to
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In addition to our new, cleaner "look" here at Airfarewatchdog, we're now offering city to city fare alerts. So if you want to be alerted when a fare goes down to a "buy" price, just from New York JFK to Miami, say, or Boston to Pittsburgh, you can change your alert preferences to add those specific alerts.
Big deal, you say? Other sites offer this already? Yeah, but they don't include fares on Southwest. They don't include promo code fares. They don't include Skybus, Allegiant, and other airlines. They don't include Spirit's $1 fares. They don't check to see if a decent number of seats are available.
We do. And we won't send you fare alerts unless we consider the fare to be at or near its recent or historical low point (if a fare has gone down 20%, but it's still sky high, you won't be hearing from us).
We've also added international city alerts. This is where we'll send you an alert to your choice of foreign airports. Perhaps you've been looking for a cheap fare from Birmingham to Berlin, but it's been sky high. But what if there's a great deal from Atlanta? We'll tell you about it in these alerts, along with all other fares we list to Berlin.
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George Hobica on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 11:15 AM to
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That's what "justlookinforcheapairfare" ranted on our message boards recently, because he or she couldn't find a $200 RT fare from Philly to San Juan that we had posted.
"The 'best' price each time was over $500!! I don't know why I bother with this website," this person whines.
Well, he was right. The lowest fare wasn't $200. It was actually $165 plus tax on that route, for January travel, and if only he had read our user's guide (where we distill over a decade of experience in hunting for low airfares) then perhaps he'd be sunning and not whining. For proof, we show a real booking from Travelocity for this route on our Fare of the Day page, where you can see evidence of many other crazy low fares.
Believe it or not, we get nice emails from people every day saying how much they like Airfarewatchdog. But we thought it would be useful for newbies poking around the site wondering what we're all about, if those of you who like the site left comments here (to counteract posts on our message boards from people like "justlookin". Have you found a fab fare that we listed? Brag about it so that new visitors to our site will see the value of sticking around!
Just click on the add a comment link and share the love.
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George Hobica on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 4:23 PM to
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I just got off the phone with a lovely lady, Patty D., of Medford, Oregon. Patty was really sweet, told me how much she loved the site, etc. Now this was a Saturday (yes, we answer the phone on Saturdays sometimes, although we prefer people to email us). Now it appears that on Wednesday, we had sent out a newsletter with a $138 RT fare from Medford to LA, and I guess Patty had just opened it on Saturday. So of course, the fare was now nearly $350 RT.
But guess what: while I had her on the phone, I asked her to change her browser's home page from MSN.com to the Medford fare page. So now, every time she turns on her computer, her favorite fare page will pop up automatically. This way, maybe she'll catch a low fare next time.
So here's how you make a fare page your home page.
1. Just go to the fares leaving from your city on our site
2. Go to "Tools" at the top of the browser window.
3. Go to "internet options."
4. Click on "use current"
5. Click on "OK"
It's as simple as that!
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George Hobica on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 4:35 PM to
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Airfarewatchdog.com, as you may already know, is the only airfare listing/comparison site that includes low fares on all airlines, including low cost leaders Southwest, SkyBus, JetBlue, and Allegiant. The site only lists fares when and if they are unusually good bargains.
Recently, we launched a new airfare widget that can be easily customized to show selected low fares either to or from any city. The javascript widget is a cinch to place on any web site or blog, and takes up little room. It’s ideal for convention and visitor bureaus, attractions, or even hotels that wish to show low fares to their city in order to entice visitors to come. It’s also great for airport web sites and newspapers or other local publications that wish to show low fares from their local airports. Blogs are another ideal placement. Planning a wedding in Honolulu? Place the widget on your wedding blog so prospective wedding guests can search for low fares to the wedding destination. The widget can also be designed to show fares, all in one place, from or to surrounding airports, or from/to just one airport.
The widget scrolls continually to show fares. When a user wishes to learn more about the fare, further details are a click away.
Colors can be customized. The widget uses simple javascript code and takes just a few minutes to implement. According to Allen Holder, the travel editor of the Kansas City Star, getting approval from management to incorporate the widget, and actually placing it on site, was “the easiest thing I’ve done all year.” The Columbus Dispatch is also using the widget on its travel site.
To learn more about this widget, please dash off an email widget@airfarewatchdog.com
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Tracy Stewart on Friday, September 07, 2007 at 10:23 AM to
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Some airports, like Denver's, aren't known for easy and cheap public transportation to the city center. But, in Airfarewatchdog.com's experience, these 10 U.S. airports make it easy to skip cab lines, traffic and high fares.
- Boston Logan: The Silver Line Rapid Transit Bus Service (SL1) will take you from Boston's Logan Airport straight to South Station, which is Boston's central transportation hub. There are also shuttle buses to/from the Blue Line subway train to each airport terminal.
- Washington Reagan National: The Washington D.C. Metrorail stops at the B and C terminals in this airport. From Terminal A, you can take a short bus ride to Terminal B or C to get on the train.
- San Francisco International: Hop on the Airtran at any terminal, for no cost, and get off at the Garage G/BART station stop. From there you can access the Bay Area Rapid Transit (San Francisco's train system).
- New York John F. Kennedy: You can get on the Airtrain for $5 at each terminal, and access the New York City Transit Authority subway or the Long Island Railroad. Get off at Airtrain's Howard Beach exit for transfer to the A subway train, or at Jamaica Station for transfer to the E, J and Z subway trains and the Long Island Railroad.
- Minneapolis-St.Paul International: The light rail trains stop at the Lindbergh terminal, then proceeds to key locations such as the Mall of America and downtown Minneapolis. From the Humphrey terminal, there is a shuttle bus to the Lindbergh terminal. However, the airport hopes to have light rail service to both terminals by Autumn 2007.
- Chicago O'Hare: The Airport Transit System (ATS) is a free train that connects all terminals to a Metra subway/train station. You can take the Metra to numerous locations in downtown Chicago.
- Philadelphia International: The SEPTA (Philadelphia's public transit system) connects directly to all terminals in this airport. You can hop on to the R1 high-speed rail line, which goes straight into downtown Philadelphia and other transportation hubs.
- Portland International: Portland's MAX light rail stops at the airport's central baggage claim. It's the last stop on the red line, which goes to downtown Portland and the City Center.
- Baltimore/Washington International: A free shuttle will take you from the terminals to the BWI Rail Station. From there, you can take the Maryland Rail Commuter Service (MARC) to either Penn Station in Baltimore or Union Station in Washington D.C.
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George Hobica on Saturday, August 04, 2007 at 8:42 AM to
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OK, it took us a while to get these done, but by popular (or is it pup-ular) demand, we've taken the drawing of Browser (he's our wheaten terrier mascot) atop the Empire State Building and put it on a T-shirt.
These are American Apparel soft and comfortable T-shirts, made in the USA. They retail for $18 at their stores; we're selling them for $19.95 including shipping and handling (handling=we have to print out address labels, put them in an envelope, and take them to the Post Office).
The vast majority of you said you didn't want "Airfarewatchdog.com" to appear on the front of the T....just Browser doing his thing. So that's what we did. (Our URL appears discreetly on the back of the shirt in quite tiny lettering... ah, ever self-effacing we are). So order yours before they are gone (our last set of T's sold out, and these are much nicer, in our humble opinion).
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George Hobica on Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 2:19 PM to
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This just in from Dory, a travel agent in Detroit:
I am a home-based travel agent and do not have enough time to monitor airfare-only requests for my growing list of clients. Airfare Watchdog is a wonderful assistant for me in this area. I recently began helping my clients to understanding your site so they can do more of their own monitoring, which frees up more time for me to do research in other more involved areas of travel. I can include them in my mailings. At least 100 cards for me, please. I will be anxiously awaiting your business cards for immediate distribution. Thanks!
If you'd like our little business cards to pass out to friends and family, order some here!
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Posted by
Tracy Stewart on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 1:13 PM to
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It was a very tough decision for our panel of celebrity judges....ok, that's a lie. We didn't even have judges, much less celebrity ones. We do, however, have a judge wig, but that's totally unrelated. Anyways, our contest winners were chosen entirely by the number of clicks their entries received. So scientific! So just!
We hereby crown Lorraine Tyner of Columbus, Mississippi as our $1,000 grand prize winner! Woohoo! Way to go, Lorraine!
And our Runners-Up, and winners of the 5,000 Frequent Flyer miles from American Airlines are:
* Barb Chaney, of Miami, Florida! Yay!
* Roberto Rojas, of Columbus, Ohio! Yippeee!
* Alycia Somers, of Princeton, New Jersey! Woohoo!
* and David Bochna, of, eh, he didn't tell us where he lives yet. Yay David!
Congratulations to our winners, and a great big thank-you to everyone who took the time to enter!
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Posted by
George Hobica on Saturday, June 02, 2007 at 3:46 PM to
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For those of you who wonder what Browser looks like when he's "off duty," here's his latest head shot:
He thanks his many fans for their kind comments.
When Browser isn't looking out for airfare consumers, he hangs out under George's desk.
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