Since United tried unsuccessfully to raise fares by $5 on January 19, it’s been very quiet on the fare front — perhaps too quiet.
As a rule, carriers like to post system-wide increases on Thursday nights. That gives the other carriers the weekend to decide whether or not they want to join in.
This is just a […]
US Airways just put out a press release saying that its bid to merge with Delta Air Lines has been withdrawn.
Kudos to Delta management. Now all they face are the challenges of emerging from bankruptcy and getting to profitability in as short a time as possible. On another positive note for Delta, they secured $2.5 […]
Today’s FareFactor: 416
Down 4 points or 1% from 1/30/07 — One week ago: 428, One Month Ago: 413, One Year Ago: 441, Two Years Ago: 425
Found a cool site that helps you to track the ups and downs in jet fuel. The site is sponsored by DHL.
The index updates weekly with a lag of about two weeks. You can definitely see the downward trend over the last four months as the price for crude has dropped.
You can also query for […]
Today’s Index
- 420 (10:00 am 1/29/07) the index is down 6 points or 1.4% from the day before
One Week Ago (1/22/07) - 425
One Month Ago (12/29/07) - 413
One Year Ago (1/29/06) - 453
Two Years Ago (1/29/05) - 432
Source: Farecompare.com
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that US Airways is offering to sweeten its bid for Delta by $1 billion bringing the total offer to about $10.8 billion. The deadline of February 1st remains for reaction by Delta’s creditors.
Initially I gave my vote to US Airways in winning this hostile bid for Delta. I […]
I bumped into this by chance this morning. It appears that Travelocity is experimenting with a new “no-frills” site at www.cheaptotravel.com. I tested the air search and the results definitely look like Travelocity.
The domain name is registered to Travelocity.com LP and was last updated on January 5, 2007.
Based on the limited google search results, it […]
There was a good deal of discussion this week on the story of the three-year old.
This is an emotional topic as evidenced by all of the posts on this subject.
Reaction ranged greatly. One side saw this incident as another reason to call for a Passengers Bill of Rights. As Chris Elliott writes, the call […]
At FareCompare we have put together an extensive database of historical fares. By mining this information we have developed a real-time airfare index for fares in North America.
With the FareFactor™ index, it is easy to see the impact of a system-wide fare increase or decrease. For instance in this chart you can see that Delta’s […]
According to the New York Times, Travelport has selected UBS to explore an initial public offering for Orbitz. Sources are saying Orbitz along with CheapTickets and eBookers would be valued at around $3 billion
