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January 31, 2008

My Trips: How do I set an alert from my hometown to a few of my favorite destinations?

Filed under: MyTrips — mike @ 6:29 pm
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You can set this alert, by setting up separate trips; and you can set as many trips as you like by following this 5-simple steps:

  1. Go to the FareCompare homepage.
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  3. In the “Free Email Alerts” box on the right, click on the highlighted link that says, “click here to log in and manage your trips”. You will land on the My Trips page.
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  5. Look for the button on top that says, “Add a Trip” and click it.
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  7. You’ll then be taken to a page where you can fill in your “Origin” and “Destination” cities. Then simply click “Next” to continue.
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  9. When you’re finished with that trip, simply click the “Back to My Trips” button on the top, and start over with a new destination (see Steps 3 and 4)

Note: you can always save your work at anytime in the process, simply by clicking the “Save Trip” button.

What is the quickest way to set-up an Email Alert between 2-cities?

Filed under: MyTrips — mike @ 6:23 pm
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You can set up an alert between 2-cities following these 4-quick and easy steps:

  1. Go to the FareCompare homepage.
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  3. In the “Free Email Alerts” box on the right, click on the highlighted link that says, “click here to log in and manage your trips”. You will land on the My Trips page.
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  5. Look for the button on top that says, “Add a Trip” and click it.
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  7. You’ll then be taken to a page where you can fill in your “Origin” and “Destination” cities. Then simply click “Next” to continue.

Note: you can always save your work at anytime in the process, simply by clicking the “Save Trip” button.

What is the quickest way to sign-up for the Free Email Alerts?

Filed under: MyTrips — mike @ 6:16 pm
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The quickest and easiest way to sign-up for our alerts takes just 3-simple steps:

  1. Go to the FareCompare homepage.
  2. On the upper right-hand side of the page is an area called “Airfare Email Alerts”; look for the “window” that says, “enter your email address” and do so.
  3. Click the “sign up” button.

Within seconds, you will receive an email from us with your new password and instructions on completing this process. It’s quick, and easy!

My Trips: “I want an Email alert to anywhere cool in Europe, Can I set that up?”

Filed under: Europe, MyTrips — mike @ 6:11 pm
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My Trips enables you to set up alerts from your home town to destinations throughout Europe (you can browse our Europe map to see all of the cities you can fly to).

You can set up email alerts for travel to Europe by following these steps:

Step 1: Go to the FareCompare homepage.

Step 2: In the Email Alerts box on the right, click on the line that says, login and manage your trips.

Step 3: Click “Add a Trip”

Step 4: Enter your origin city. You can enter the first few letters and then look for your city in the drop-down suggestion list. When you find it, you can click on it, tab, or enter, and your origin city will appear in the box.

Step 5: Enter “eur” in the destination box. “EUR (multi)” will appear in the suggestion list. Click it, tab, or enter, and it will appear in the destination box.

Step 6: Click “next” to set up the remaining parameters for your alert.

  • Set your minimum alert rating, minimum alert price change, and price change direction. (click “Next”)
  • Set your travel date flexibility (Very Flexible, Limited, Fixed)

Step 7: Click “Save Trip” to save all of your new trip details.

My Trips: I’m Getting too Many Email Alerts

Filed under: MyTrips — mike @ 3:44 pm
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You can limit the number of email alerts you are receiving by changing the details of your trip. By increasing the Price Change dollar amount, changing your alert ratings, specifying a destination city (instead of region), and altering travel date flexibility, you can create more specific email alerts.

In order to do that, you simply have to edit your trip by following these steps:

Step 1: Go to the FareCompare homepage.

Step 2: In the Email Alerts box on the right, click on the line that says, login and manage your trips.

Step 3: Select Edit button (located next to copy and delete buttons) on your trip page.

Step 4: The Editing Process

  • You can edit your origin and destination cities. (click Next)
  • You can edit your cabin and airline preferences, and you can rank your trip. (click Next)
  • Edit the parameters of your Email alerts: Change your minimum alert rating, minimum alert price change, and price change direction. (click Next)
  • You can edit your travel date flexibility (Very Flexible, Limited, Fixed)

Step 5: Click Save Trip to save all of your new trip details. You can select Save Trip at any point during the editing process if you have completed the changes you wish to make.

My Trips: How Do I Change Trip Details?

Filed under: MyTrips — mike @ 2:45 pm
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Follow these steps to edit the details of your trips:

Step 1: Go to the FareCompare homepage.

Step 2: In the Email Alerts box on the right, click on the line that says, “login and manage your trips”.

Step 3: Select “Edit” button (located next to “copy” and “delete” buttons) on your trip page.

Step 4: The Editing Process

  • You can edit your origin and destination cities. (click “Next”)
  • You can edit your cabin and airline preferences, and you can rank your trip. (click “Next”)
  • Edit the parameters of your Email alerts: Change your minimum alert rating, minimum alert price change, and price change direction. (click “Next”)
  • You can edit your travel date flexibility (Very Flexible, Limited, Fixed)

Step 5: Click “Save Trip” to save all of your new trip details. You can select “Save Trip” at any point during the editing process if you have completed the changes you wish to make.

My Trips: How Do I Unsubscribe?

Filed under: MyTrips — mike @ 2:35 pm
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To unsubscribe from all your Email Alerts and/or FareCompare’s Newsletter, simply follow these 4-easy steps.

  1. Go to the FareCompare homepage.
  2. In the Email Alerts box on the right, click on the line that says, “login and manage your trips”.
  3. You will be taken to the trips you have set alerts for; on the right-hand side of the page near the bottom, look for the button called “Delete My Profile” and click it.
  4. You will be taken to a page with 2-buttons: one says “Unsubscribe Newsletter” and the other says “Unsubscribe Alerts”. Simply click the appropriate button(s) to delete the services you no longer want.

Note: you can always return and sign-up for our Free Email Alerts again at any time, but your previous alerts will have disappeared, and you will have to reset them.

My Trips: How Do I Delete an Alert?

Filed under: MyTrips — mike @ 2:30 pm
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To delete a previously-set Email Alert, simply follow these 3-easy steps:

  1. Go to the FareCompare homepage.
  2. In the Email Alerts box on the right, click on the line that says, “login and manage your trips”.
  3. You will be taken to the trips you have set alerts for; beside each trip on the right are 3-small buttons marked “Edit”, “Copy” and “Delete”. Find the trip you want to delete the alerts for, and click the “Delete” button beside it. That trip will disappear from the page and you will no longer receive alerts for that trip.

If you wish to delete more alerts, simply repeat Step 3.

January 16, 2008

Why Can’t I Find the Listed Airline Ticket Price?

Filed under: Airlines, Airline Tickets, Price Mismatch — Rick Seaney @ 2:32 pm
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You get an airfare price drop email alert

 

or

You are “Researching Cheapest Airfares” from the FareCompare.com home page and we show you the cheapest published price calendar.

You select your dates and hit “Find Flights” to check for seats and the quoted price doesn’t match up — why not?

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January 15, 2008

When Do Airlines Change Their Ticket Prices?

Filed under: Airlines, Answers, MyTrips — Rick Seaney @ 11:09 am
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90+ percent of all airfares that are purchased each day are filed with a clearing house in Washington DC called ATPCO (Airline Tariff Publishing Company). This company was once a government agency but changed to private ownership (owned by 20+ airlines) after airline deregulation in 1978.

Hundreds of thousands of airfare price and rule changes flow continuously into ATPCO each day and in turn they distribute them at specified times later that day to a handful of subscribers worldwide that provide reservation systems including the airlines themselves (FareCompare.com is one of these handful of subscribers).

Savvy air travel shoppers should know these approximate delivery times to save both time and energy shopping …

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