Farecompare.com Review - Cheaper Flights

“Erick, can you give me advice on purchasing my flight?” THIS is a question I get all the time from my friends, and then I hit them with a wealth of information like:

The best day to travel is Saturday, yes I said Saturday. Also Tuesday and Wednesdays are good days to travel as others are considered peak days.
Make sure you purchase your tickets about 6 weeks ahead, any later and the prices tend to go up.
Purchase you tickets on a Tuesday, that is usually when the cheapest flights are after all the Monday price matching.

At this point, people tell me how smart I am, BUT I am not. I am going to stick to an old adage, “A smart man does not know the answers, a smart man knows how to find the answers.” As somewhat of a “smart” man, I found a lot of answers on when to travel and how to buy the cheapest tickets on a great website. The website is known as farecompare.com

Started in March 2006 Farecompare started as the company XXI Technologies, a data mining company working on a project for Hotels.com. They were introduced to the same database as Orbitz and found a great usage of all this data. They went ahead and started Farecompare.com after getting a slew of data of airline prices, they published tips on when to buy and where to go and which days to fly. It paid to have all this information in their grasp. Farecompare.com debunked many of the travel myths that were out there.

Farecompare is both a flight search engine, which is amazing for the fact that it will allow you to see the best day of the month to fly on your trip. One of the features on the website is to see a calendar based on how long you want to go and how much your flight would be on certain days. A very convenient tool for anyone who wants to take a vacation.

Also is a search feature based on a month you want to go somewhere and it will show you map of he some of the lowest fares around the world of where to go. This is a great tool for some one like me, who wants to take a vacation, but have no clue of where to go next.

Another feature of is the blog on Farecompare, especially the blog from Rick Seaney the CEO of Farecompare who gives analysis of the date they have collected and the trends in travel. He will tend to give tips on how and when to book certain airlines too. His blog is the most useful blog as it tends to tell the best tips, some of which I have already mentioned above.

So my suggestion, be a “smart” person and find out some answers about travel. Check out Farecompare.com. Don’t you like to save money? I know everyone out there does, plus it is nice to be that person everyone goes to about the advice on how to purchase your tickets.

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Erick Redcloud

A partially blind Graphic Designer, Freelance Travel Photographer, Artist, Buddhist and Vegetarian who loves to travel. Erick loves traveling by being with the locals and going off the beaten path. He is the founder and owner of Pathlesstravels and loves inspiring others to follow their dreams, whether it is to travel or something completely different. He started Pathlesstravels to hone is photography skills and to meet amazing people, and to help a friend break into journalism. Check out his photography at his link.