SideStep to offer ongoing fare tracking, historical pricing and instant fare alerts

Internet travel search company has come up with a new tool called FareTracker, which empowers users to better manage their trip planning process by tracking one or more flight routes over time and monitoring price changes as they occur.

Published: 28 Aug 2007

Internet travel search company has come up with a new tool called FareTracker, which empowers users to better manage their trip planning process by tracking one or more flight routes over time and monitoring price changes as they occur.

The tool finds the lowest fares for any combination of flight plans with the greatest degree of date flexibility in the market today: +/- 7 days from a specified date, according the company.

In addition to the ability to monitor price, users can select either weekly email updates or updates as prices change, receive an email notification if the price reaches a specified price point, and track historical fare pricing for their specific route.

FareTracker allows users to strategically buy airfares at the most optimal price. SideStep users can
build their FareTracker from SideStep’s flight search results page, using the information in the original flight search query to pre-fill the form, stated the company.

“Although travel booking has been made easier than ever before via the Internet, consumers on average still spend a great deal of time searching for the best deals,” said Brian Stolte, Director of Product Management, SideStep, Inc. “Our new FareTracker tool picks up the bulk of that task, empowering consumers with historical pricing data, weekly updates and alerts for user-specified prices, ultimately enabling the most informed purchasing decision.”

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