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Fareness — Discover the lowest airfare for flexible flyers
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@lalleclausen Hi Lasse. Kayak has a +-3 day search to one destination whereas Fareness shows fares for 200 departure dates for multiple destinations at once. In terms of Kayak's map explore feature: it's a grab bag of flights ranging from 2 to 18 days and you have no idea what the trip is until you click a price on the map -- there are other key differences that make Fareness and its integrated fare-calendar data infinitely more useful to find those hidden/ideal priced days to travel, but these are the key ones.
From the NYT: "For those with no specific destination in mind, the site allows them to search 'Europe,' 'outdoors' or 'family,' which results in a range of flight options in a variety of appropriate destinations. For example, for travelers who know they want to go to the beach but can’t decide between Maui and Cancun, Fareness will show the lowest-priced options within a range of dates at a number of beach destinations. The company says its search engine can offer up to nearly 200 departure dates and 10 trip lengths with one search."
Reminds me of @gillianim's Histlist app, if it was just for desktop, particularly the featured destination cards on the homepage as to where I can get away - right now - from my departure city.
@daveambrose thanks for the feedback. Fareness is quite a bit more robust from both a front and backend perspective. On the front end, you can search Fareness for any destination and see a scrollable calendar of fares for 200 departure dates, a corresponding map of similar destinations, and suggested trip tiles across themes, all at once. You're also able to hone in on your desired trip month and trip length. On the backend, we're not simply tied into an OTA -- we built our own engine for maximum accuracy and bookability to keep track of millions of dynamic fares. And, we have a robust hotel search built in, which we will be transitioning into discounted package bookings within Fareness.
@scottwww we should meet and compare notes! Are you based in the city or the valley?
This is cool. Reminds me of https://skypicker.com, which is already around for a couple of years and very robust.
@scottwww is there a way to search for the cheapest day to return for a given departure date (if you don't care about the length of the trip)?
I like the idea but most of the European flight prices seem to be inadequately overpriced. Just by doing a basic search on any of the European airline websites shows a completely different result. How do you change currency? To be honest, I'm not too sure how is this product any better than the zillion other flight search engines such as CheapFlights?
@robertsozolins Hi Rob. Thanks for the feedback. We are focused on the US market at present. We cover 10,000 origin/destination pairings, with all of the major US origin cities covered. Fareness supports searches with origins outside of the US, but not ideally (origins outside of the US are slower and with fewer fare options). Offering airfare searches this way is a huge data problem, and not one well suited to a 1 month old startup to address the global market, so we chose to launch with US origin cities, USD focus and grow from there.
Also, in terms of how it differs: it's not possible at any of the "zillion other flight search engines" to browse fares across a wide range of departure dates at a glance, to instantly see the lowest fares, because they're all single date search based and single date searches take 10-20s or more per search. For instance: flying from San Francisco to NYC on December 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, or 10th, for 8 days, is $247 round trip whereas every other day is between $400-$700, and chances are very good that you would have overpaid and chosen the wrong trip dates without our technology to find those lower fares at a glance.
I like the idea of this. However, I kind of wished that the site showed the round trip fares on the homepage, as opposed to just the one-way fare? Is there a way to change this? That would be more useful, albeit a bit more difficult if you are selecting a range of days.
I wish there was a way to filter by alliance... Super helpful for FF with status.
This is exactly what I've been looking for! I love to travel, but really don't care when (so long as it's reasonably priced) - so this is perfect.
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