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Yahoo Farechase Review for Airline Flights
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I’ve used Expedia and Travelocity in the past (they use the same databases, my choice all depends on whether or not I want to see Travelocity’s roaming gnome, good marketing guys!) but both are about to be supplanted by Yahoo Farechase… because Yahoo uses JAVAX and it’s fast. No more waiting on that “Searching airfare’s screen” that always seems to take forever, I think Farechase is going to capture some of that travel search market until the big boys start using JAVAX.
Here’s what I like about Yahoo Farechase:
1. Yahoo Farechase remembers your searches. How many times have you hit back on any of the other engines and had to tediously enter your information again? I hate it. I hate it with a passion. Yahoo remembers it. And not only does she remember it, when you click it she just populates the boxes so you can change them as you see fit, she doesn’t automatically start running the search again.
2. That progress bar means something. And they show you intermediate results. Farechase searches through all the airlines in its database (American Airlines, America West, US Airways, United, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Alaska Airlines andContinental) and populates the list as it gets data.
3. That JAVAX filtering is sweet. The “Refine Results” panel allows you to check and uncheck departure times, airports, airlines, and the number of stops – each time updating the results without having to reload the page.
4. Forget the Airport Code? Just type in the city it’s in, slowly, and a drop down box will appear with possible airports and cities that you could be looking for. Very nice.
Basically I see Farechase as a tool I’d use instead of Expedia, Travelocity or any of the other flight search engines but, as with the others, you still need to check Airtran and Southwest Airlines’ websites directly for their fares. Farechase gets two thumbs up from me.
Oh, and if you think this is cool, just wait until you use it for hotels.
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Very cool – I love that it remembers your searches for you!
If only southwest would come up on these searches…