Comments on: Travel Search Beta

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:30:33 +0000

The tool is great, but how about allowing to search from multiple origin to multiple destinations? Like any of BayArea airports to any of NYC airport …

Would be a killer feature.

By: Dshen

Dshen — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:37:30 +0000

This Farechase thing is pretty cool. I did have one comment. I searched for fares from SJC to JFK and it defaults to showing me the lowest fare possible, BUT it showed America West flights from SFO to JFK, not from SJC. I think it should default to the cities/airports you name first and then give you an option to try nearby cities, or maybe there is a message to say “Want a lower fare? Try a nearby city – click here”. Keep up the great work!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 20:28:10 +0000

Sweet! I love the feel of the UI by the way.

Often times for personal travel the duration of the stay is more important than the specific days of travel. For instance I might want to go back to England to visit my parents for a week but I don’t really care whether I travel on a Monday or a Wednesday. It would be cool if the site could do some searching on this basis. I’d like to give it a tentative start date and a fixed duration and then it would give me the cheapest roundtrip flight within, say, a week of my start date.

By: Adam Viener

Adam Viener — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:50:16 +0000

Interesting site! How and when will PPC advertising opportunities be integrated?

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 19:59:30 +0000

I’d love to check it out but since I use Mac OS X and Safari it tells me my browser isn’t supported.

By: Jim Yang

Jim Yang — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:02:21 +0000

Thanks for the feedback. Totally understand the frustrations re: browser support. We are planning to support the following Windows browsers in the near future:
IE 5.0+
Netscape 7.1+
Mozilla Suite 1.7
Firefox 0.9

Mac browser support will be in place for the GA release.

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:05:14 +0000

This new tool is great…inj the same way i don’t believe Yahoo should be too tight to ie…I think people keep in mind that Yahoo is MSN ’s alternative and should therefore be available in ANY browser…is Yahoo! open minded :)
As for the site, I think it would be great if we could actually personalize the main page with spotlight destinations fares of our choice just like what we have on My Yahoo
For example my gf told me she’d like to go to the USA sometimes (I’m french) well I’d like this site to be able to be able to display the best fares for certain US cities for example.
Keep up the good work

By: Bart

Bart — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 12:38:07 +0000

Overall, I’ve found farechase good at finding fares, especailly international.

Only gripe is I hate your formating of times, it is very confusing. I see 04:30p, I think immediately of 4:30 in the morning, and don’t register the “p” – I am sure any European will, to.

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 09:42:21 +0000

Here’s what I think: It doesn’t work.

“FareChase does not currently support the browser you are using.”

Until this works in a decent browser (Firefox, Safari, etc.), I will not be using it.

That being said, the idea is very interesting, and I hope to see support for other browsers ASAP.

By: Paco

Paco — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 07:10:24 +0000

A site only for IE? :/

It seems Linux users don’t travel, they prefer spend holidays hacking some code in their dark rooms LOL

C ya