When I book travel, I go crazy and look under every rock and drive my wife nuts. I usually spend a good straight month booking a trip. And even so, while it was in existence, I never found a better deal than Farchase did within seconds.

I referred my whole family to the site, and they were always amazed by how much cheaper even the same exact flight was on Farechase than any other site.

Farecast is not the same simply because it never finds particularly better deals than other sites.

Yahoo has got to be one of the worst run companies in history. They buy up perfectly good sites and ruin them (Geocities, Flickr, etc.) but then they have something GOLD like Farechase and they kill it.

Half of Yahoo’s services I’ve never even heard of. Bix? Green? Shine?

Yahoo still hasn’t heeded the infamous peanut butter manifesto.

I was booking air travel a couple of days ago and it took me quite a bit of work to find an ideal itinerary. It’s unfortunate they are closing.

This site returned a comparable itinerary automatically at a minimal price difference. However, I live near 3 major airports, which makes things a little more trickier when creating different points of departure and return.

Farecast has had the same issues in my experience.

If you’re going to deliver a deal locating service – make sure it actually delivers good deals, not overpriced junk.

Shame that Y! discontinued the site, though. I wonder if they’re retaining any of the technology without the branding or just dropping it all together due to advertising conflicts.