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FareCompare.com is an independent airfare shopping site with the all the tools necessary to help consumers find the best deals available quickly and easily - and find them first. That’s because FareCompare is not the typical airfare “meta search” comparison shopping site.

Every day FareCompare processes feeds from more than 500 airlines - totaling more than 270,000 destinations worldwide - making FareCompare a comprehensive one-stop airfare shopping experience. Plus, FareCompare’s proprietary software and robust processing power delivers a speedy and easy shopping experience.

FareCompare relies on ITA Software’s QPX to handle airfare queries associated with its real-time alerts service. The service not only alerts customers to deals by email, but also provides travelers who follow their home airports on Twitter to get real-time notices about travel deals from those airports, for example http://www.twitter.com/flyfromBOS (Boston), @flyfromDEN (Denver) and @flyfromNYC (the greater New York airports). When customers select the link provided in the email or tweet, they open a web page and initiate a QPX query that populates a 30-day calendar; if the fare is no longer available, users can initiate another search for a comparable fare. QPX also handles queries associated with FareCompare’s Cheap Travel Deals, destination shopping and Smart Shopper searches.

And FareCompare offers these unique features:

Sign up for FareCompare.com real-time alerts. It’s super easy- sign up for FareCompare’s real-time email alerts (www.farecompare.com/signup ) and you will be first to know when prices change for your favorite trips -the moment the price drops! And our ‘one-click to savings’ technology takes shoppers directly to an easy-to-use travel calendar - a quick and easy way to find the best price for your trip.

Follow FareCompare on Twitter and get real-time tweets with cheap deals from your airport. Farecompare has made it even easier to get real-time deals from your home airport. Now you can follow your home airport - for example, @flyfromDFW (Dallas), @flyfromFLL (Ft. Lauderdale), and @flyfromNYC (the greater New York airports) - on Twitter- and you will get real-time tweets on flight deals from your home airport. FareCompare has indexed deals from more than 100 airports in the US and Canada�- so finding your airport is easy (www.farecompare.com/twitter ). And just like the alerts, FareCompare’s ‘one-click to savings’ technology puts shoppers directly on the easy-to-use travel calendar, to quickly and easily find the best prices for flights.

Use the FareCompare Deal Finder. FareCompare’s ‘one-click to savings’ technology is perfect for finding deals anywhere you want to fly. Quickly find cheap deals from your home airport to beaches and spas and golf resorts around the world-plus every family-friendly vacation destination you’ve been dreaming of. FareCompare’s Deal Finder (http://www.farecompare.com/dealfinder/) finds these deals instantly-to specific cities, at the prices you choose.

Rick Seaney, FareCompare CEO, is the media’s go-to source for airline industry trends. Rick’s expert analysis appears daily at Rick Seaney’s FareCompare Labs blog (www.farecomparelabs.com) and in his weekly column for ABCNews.com.

“These are just some of the ways FareCompare.com seeks to accomplish one of our most important goals - educating the air traveling public,” says Rick, “so our consumers will make the best airfare purchasing decisions, every time they choose to fly.” FareCompare is a winner of Travel Weekly’s Magellan Award, and was honored by Travel + Leisure as one of its “Top 25 Air Travel Websites” of 2008.

On FareCompare, you’ll find cheap domestic and international flights, cheap tickets, airline tickets, discount airfare, discount first class airfare, the easiest air travel planning tools, and expert travel advice. Since airlines change airfare prices constantly, sign up for FareCompare’s travel email alerts and let FareCompare’s travel search engine monitor airline ticket prices so you’ll be first in line to pickup the best deal on your quest for the cheapest plane ticket. FareCompare can help you find a cheap hotel room too!