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It's no secret that budget travelers want to find the cheapest fares out there. Where to find them is another matter. Here's our updated primer on how to snare a decent airfare. 1. Look at historical data. By examining pricing history, a number of relatively new sites tell you if fares are heading up or down, or alert you to unusually low fares. At farecast.com, for example, do a search for one of the fares for the 75 domestic cities tracked by Farecast, and the site not only makes a prediction but indicates how sure it is of that prediction.

Kayak, which runs a popular flight and airfare comparison website, plans to relaunch its TravelPost.com hotel-review site this month to go head-to-head with rival TripAdvisor.com. Kayak said TravelPost will be relaunched March 24 with a powerful search engine that will pull 1.4 million guest reviews from more than 200 websites and room rates from five to 10 websites. The upgraded site will also feature filters that let users pick which websites are searched and find reviews written by guests who share the same interests or demographic details.

TripAdvisor LLC went live last night with a search engine that will pull together flight and fare data from multiple airlines and online travel agencies, a move that will put the Newton website in competition with Kayak.com and others in the lucrative fare search space. Best known for user-generated reviews of hotels and tourist attractions, TripAdvisor will now vie in the "meta-search" engine category, which includes Microsoft Corp.'s Farecast and Yahoo Inc.'s FareChase. One way TripAdvisor hopes to distinguish itself is a fee estimator enabling customers to figure the cost of checking...

TripAdvisor LLC went live last night with a search engine that will pull together flight and fare data from multiple airlines and online travel agencies, a move that will put the Newton website in competition with Kayak.com and others in the lucrative fare search space. Best known for user-generated reviews of hotels and tourist attractions, TripAdvisor will now vie in the "meta-search" engine category, which includes Microsoft Corp.'s Farecast and Yahoo Inc.'s FareChase. One way TripAdvisor hopes to distinguish itself is a fee estimator enabling customers to figure the cost of checking...

Kayak, which runs a popular flight and airfare comparison website, plans to relaunch its TravelPost.com hotel-review site this month to go head-to-head with rival TripAdvisor.com. Kayak said TravelPost will be relaunched March 24 with a powerful search engine that will pull 1.4 million guest reviews from more than 200 websites and room rates from five to 10 websites. The upgraded site will also feature filters that let users pick which websites are searched and find reviews written by guests who share the same interests or demographic details.

To help spawn trip ideas, many travel websites are starting to offer detailed information on where their customers are going and what they are doing. The information is hardly exhaustive, since it's based on what one company's customers are saying, and even those customers aren't necessarily representative of society in general. But the companies pulling the data together say consumers often get their travel ideas from what others are doing. For example, the travel search engine Kayak.com has a new feature called Buzz, which provides a listing of...

Is there a place to find a list of nonstop flights from Boston? I'd like to have something handy for the weekends when I can get away. L.O., Newton While you might not find what you're looking for on a single site, you just need to be willing to bookmark a few. Your first should be Kayak.com, a search engine started by the founders of Orbitz, Travelocity, and Expedia. One of the website's relatively new features is "Buzz," which allows you to select a departure city and if you want nonstop, and then it displays the top 25 worldwide...

You booked your summer travel early, only to see the airfare drop. On average, ticket prices are higher than a year ago, but select fares have dropped since March, particularly on routes with the most competition or the fewest bookings. Before kicking yourself, find out if you can recoup the difference. (Warning: In some cases, you’ll still end up kicking yourself.) Here’s a rundown of refund policies: ■Most major airlines treat a fare adjustment like a reservation change and charge...

People searching for hotels on Kayak now have 60 million more resources at their fingertips. As of today, the travel search website will include hotel reviews from TripAdvisor travelers, giving Kayak users access to more than 60 million opinions from around the world on hotels' cleanliness, location, staff, and rooms with the best views. Kayak also includes hotel recommendations from travel editors at Frommer's and Budget Travel, and users can narrow their searches to include only reviewed hotels.

WASHINGTON - Google Inc. is breaking a promise it made to antitrust regulators who approved its purchase of ITA Software Inc. this year by ranking its new flight information service ahead of competitors, according to Expedia Inc. Google, which introduced its own flight search service Sept. 13, "excludes any link to online travel agencies, which are key options for comparison shopping," according to testimony by Tom Barnett, Expedia's outside counsel, prepared for delivery today at a Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee hearing on Google's business practices on the...

It's no secret that budget travelers want to find the cheapest fares out there. Where to find them is another matter. Here's our updated primer on how to snare a decent airfare. 1. Look at historical data. By examining pricing history, a number of relatively new sites tell you if fares are heading up or down, or alert you to unusually low fares. At farecast.com, for example, do a search for one of the fares for the 75 domestic cities tracked by Farecast, and the site not only makes a prediction but indicates how sure it is of that prediction.

To help spawn trip ideas, many travel websites are starting to offer detailed information on where their customers are going and what they are doing. The information is hardly exhaustive, since it's based on what one company's customers are saying, and even those customers aren't necessarily representative of society in general. But the companies pulling the data together say consumers often get their travel ideas from what others are doing. For example, the travel search engine Kayak.com has a new feature called Buzz, which...

With online travel sites battling with some airlines, where does that leave travelers shopping for flights online? The simple answer is that they’re going to have to do more digging. American Airlines removed its flight listings from Orbitz.com last month, when the companies could not agree on a new contract, and Delta withdrew its fares from CheapoAir.com, OneTravel.com, and Bookit.com. More recently, Expedia.com dropped American flight listings. Delta also notified Airfare.com, CheapAir.com, Vegas.com, AirGorilla.com, and Globester.com that it would not allow its fares to be included on their...

In a major challenge to the travel industry's leading websites, Google Inc. launched a new service yesterday that allows users to shop for plane tickets as easily as they type an Internet search. The service is based on technology from ITA Software Inc. of Cambridge, which Google acquired in April for $700 million. Since May, Google has offered a search feature that lists available flights between cities, but it did not enable searchers to purchase tickets. At the new site, located at www.google.com/flights, users can easily sort flights by...