{"id":2504,"date":"2006-08-19T06:17:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T06:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2006-08-19T06:17:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T06:17:55","slug":"casting_a_net_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"Casting a Net for Better Airfares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/internet\/0,71611-0.html?tw=wn_technology_1\">Dave Demerjian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>You board your flight to Chicago, $600 ticket in hand, and do a quick survey of the people sitting around you. Turns out 13D paid only $300 for her flight, while 14E shelled out nearly $1,000 for his. It&#8217;s a reality of air travel that infuriates passengers, but now several new travel websites are promising to demystify the seemingly nonsensical world of airline ticket pricing.<\/p>\n<p>It was exasperation with existing online travel tools that led Robert Metcalf to develop flyspy, a site currently in alpha mode using fare data from Northwest Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I once spent six hours combing through different websites,&#8221; says Metcalf, who wanted to see how prices changed if he flew into a different airport or adjusted his travel dates and length of stay. &#8220;I ended up compiling all the data I gathered into an Excel spreadsheet, and started wondering why there wasn&#8217;t a site that provides this kind of functionality.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Demerjian: You board your flight to Chicago, $600 ticket in hand, and do a quick survey of the people sitting around you. Turns out 13D paid only $300 for her flight, while 14E shelled out nearly $1,000 for his. It&#8217;s a reality of air travel that infuriates passengers, but now several new travel websites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}