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Archive for February, 2007

Airfare Index at 414 — Feb 23, 2007

The Index today is 414, up 8 points or 2% from yesterday.
HistoryOne week ago: 412, one month ago: 440, one year ago: 453

Airfare Index at 406 — Feb 22, 2007

The Index today is 406, down 5 points or 1.2% from January 20th.
HistoryOne week ago: 412, one month ago: 440, one year ago: 453

Airfare Index at 411 — Feb 20, 2007

The Index today is 411, down 1 point or 0.2% from yesterday.
HistoryOne week ago: 412, one month ago: 441, one year ago: 466

Airfare Index at 412 — Feb 19, 2007

The Index today is 412, down 4 points or 1% from Friday, February 16th.
HistoryOne week ago: 419, one month ago: 435, one year ago: 469

Airfare Index at 416 — Feb 16, 2007

The Index today is 416, down 2 points or 0.5% from yesterday.
HistoryOne week ago: 420, one month ago: 423, one year ago: 396

Hotwire Introduces Fare History

Hotwire this week added in historical tracking of airfare. Hotwire also added historical hotel rate tracking which I believe may be a first.
Here’s the Hotwire chart

Here’s the FareCompare Historical chart. This went live in Mar ‘06.

News Tracker Test

I’ve been playing around with Yahoo’s pipes platform. It’s a powerful tool you can use to create specialized news feeds.
I created a test news tracker for Delta Air Lines. If this works, I plan on creating trackers for the other airlines.
If I did this correctly, the tracker should give you the top news for Delta […]

Airfare Index at 418 — Feb 15, 2007

The Index today is 418, down 5 points or 1.2% from yesterday.
HistoryOne week ago: 413, one month ago: 423, one year ago: 468

AirTran and US Air Join Sale

( Airfare )

This morning AirTran and US Airways joined in on Northwest’s fare sale of Feb 13th.
US Airways used the same travel restriction as Delta with return commencing no later than Mar 31.
AirTran used Northwest’s travel rules: purchase by Feb 22 with return commencing no later than Jun 6.
So far American is the only carrier not to […]

DL Matches NW - CO & UA Also Join In

( Airfare )

Delta matched Northwest’s fare sale in tonight’s update filing 15,472 fare reductions with an average cut of $93. Delta’s cuts affect 220 top markets. As with Northwest the fare reductions apply to walk-up, 3-day, 7-day, 14-day and 21-day advance purchase categories. Delta applied its own date restrictions. For the Delta sale fares there is no […]