Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Bargain Fares: Knowing Seat Availability

How many times have you trolled around the Internet seeking the best air fare, only to find that when you return to what turns out to be the most favorable combination of price and routing, what you would have wanted is gone? I know I've done it, comparing airlines' own web fares with those of discounters of various sorts.

Travelocity has a new feature which displays how many seats are left at a given price when that availability at that fare is running low. This feature is the subject of Travelocity's "Roamin' Gnome" TV ad campaign. I entered a Denver-Boston roundtrip starting a week from today and returning nine days from now. Sure enough, two of the flights showed as "Only 2 seats left at that price," so if I were really booking and not just looking, I'd have been able to jump on them.

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