You get an airfare price drop email alert

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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?

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 …

If your flight is listed as “delayed” by two hours and then takes off on-time, the airline is responsible if you miss it right? Well, not necessarily. Find out from Rick what the delay listing really means, and if you have any rights when a false delay keeps you from getting to your plane on-time. Click here for the full story on flight delays.