I am happy to welcome a second writer to the Air Travel Channel blog. Rick Seaney, FareCompare’s CEO, posted two pieces today on regional airfare skirmishes.
Here’s a super tool for researching scheduled flights in any market worldwide.
Easily see which carriers offer non-stop service. Click on Details to see flight times.
Once you get a new toy, it’s hard to put it down.
Below is a chart that is similar to the one I posted earlier today, but this one breaks out the total number of increases and decreases by day. This shows much more clearly the up and downs of attempted fare increases.
Blue represents fare decreases […]
We’ve got a new tool in place for tracking major fare changes and the magnitude of each event.
Below is a chart showing the the number of new fares filed on a daily basis since the start of the year. You can see that starting with United’s $5 increase on January 11th through Delta’s $5 […]
FlightExplorer has added a neat feature to its flight tracking utility. Now you can see the potential turbulence in route. You can select to track both low altitude and high altitude turbulence.
In the image below from today it looks like there is a major storm in the Southwest and Delta’s flight from San Francisco to […]
I know this is not related to air travel, but thought you might find this new tool from Google helpful. Now you can see real-time traffic congestion for major cities. Just put in your city and update the display. I’m not sure how many cities are covered, but it looks like all major metropolitan areas […]
I added a page for tracking the stock performance of the top US carriers during the course of the day.
Right now there are no charts for Delta and Northwest pending their emergence from bankruptcy.
If you would like me to add charts for other carriers, please email me.
We have developed an easy-to-use script for displaying airfare, matching the look-and-feel of your site. You can see an example at the Yeager Airport site. You can also see a sample display from Atlanta in the left-hand column of this blog.
Right now the display shows the lowest fares from a single North American origin airport […]
Since I started reporting on the daily airfare index, I’ve had a number of questions about the cost of fuel and to what extent fuel prices influence fare increases and decreases. Every network-wide airfare increase is accompanied with an explanation and the latest favorite has been the increasing cost of jet fuel.
Certainly fuel prices influence […]
I mentioned earlier that I was experimenting with Yahoo! Pipes for tracking airline specific news. Below are links to sign up for email or RSS updates for the top US airlines. For now the news is sourced exclusively from Google News. Additional enhancements are under development.
Airline News SummarySubscribe by Email or RSS
AirTran Airways View NowSubscribe […]
