Free Service Helps People Manage Their Travel Plans After Booking

Norwalk, CT, November 11, 2009 – KAYAK (kayak.com), the world’s leading travel search engine, launched KAYAK Trips, a free itinerary management tool that easily consolidates travel plans from multiple travel sites into one web-based itinerary. To use the service, people simply forward booking confirmation e-mails from travel suppliers and online travel agencies to their KAYAK user account.

Paul English, KAYAK CTO and co-founder said, "We’ve already made it simple to compare hundreds of travel sites at once. Now we’re making it easier to track the bookings you make across any of those sites including one-click sharing of your trip details with your friends.”

I’ve heard that Peter Drucker says there are only two functions of a business, product innovation and marketing. I guess we missed that class. You see, we’ve always had a "build it and they will come" approach. And they’ve come… quite a few in fact. So what does he know?

If So, Can You Save Money On Flights When Other People Are Scared?

I ran a quick analysis of US flight search data over the past two years on KAYAK sites, to find out the flight pricing trends on Halloween.

I looked at average selected airfare prices on Halloween vs. the overall average for the past two years. Prices were 5% less on Halloween. That's not a massive difference, but across such a large sample, it's statistically significant. Then I looked at other dates when people might be afraid to fly - Friday the 13th and September 11th. I found an even bigger difference here - average selected airfare prices were 12-14% lower than the average for the past two years.

Version 1.3 of the Kayak iPhone app is now available in the iTunes Store. We've fixed a lot of bugs, and replaced the scrolling/wheel date selector with a calendar. On the bug side of things, the app now crashes a lot less, the false "no internet connection" bug is fixed, and all of the disappearing results problems are fixed. We hope you like the calendar for trip selection. You can swipe to pick you trip with a single stroke, or you can touch the start and end days of your trip. You can also adjust the end points of your trip by touching and dragging the start or end day. Picking a round trip can be done in one touch, whereas the old wheel-based selector needed at least six touches. More importantly, since it's a calendar view, you can see the day of the week, and get a better "feel" of when your trip is. Read more »

Baggage Fee Calculator, Hotel Rate Calendar and Custom Airports Launch in Time for Summer Savings

NORWALK, Conn. – May 11, 2009 – Despite the economy, 95 percent of the more than 4,100 who participated in KAYAK’s Annual Summer Travel Survey plan to travel this summer. More than 41 percent said the recession did not affect their summer plans in any way which is double the number from KAYAK’s 2008’s survey.