AirfareWatchDog - Great Deals, Messy Site Comments
Thanks to reader Mike Martin for pointing out AirfareWatchDog.com to me. I had never heard of the site, but it’s pretty unique and you can find some really good deals. Instead of crawling for good flight deals, the folks over at AirfareWatchDog go looking for the deals manually. This approach lets them snag some deals from carriers that don’t lend themselves to a robotic approach. For this reason alone I will be checking this site AND FareCast before I book any flights. The deals are organized by city and each city has a RSS feed associated with it, a feature that makes the site vastly more usable. You can tell this isn’t a big budget operation, they have crammed ads onto just about every place imaginable and are willing to send you free cards (That’s their picture at the top there) for word of mouth advertising. I think that paying a consultant to help with SEO and ad layout would be a worthwhile expenditure, because this site has a lot to offer air travelers and many might be turned off by the jumbled pages of the site.