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Using Facebook to find cheap airfare (and stalk people)
The hit social networking site Facebook recently introduced third party applications that serve various purposes. Some are useful: trading music tips. Some are more frivolous: killing zombies. Now there's a nifty little tool that could save you cold hard cash. It's an app called "Where I've Been," which mainly serves to show your friends, well, where you've been.But one of its newest features is "flight finder," which lets you select a departure city and then view a visual representation of the cheapest fares to hundreds of international destinations. The best part is you can narrow the results based on how much you're willing to pay. For instance, I wanted to go somewhere cheap in late December, so I selected Newark, NJ as the departure city and then used the slider to put a $500 max on airfare. Most of the dots that popped up were in Europe or the states, but I also found a $400 ticket to Lima, Peru.
One thing to keep in mind is the service is in beta right now, so important details like dates of travel haven't been worked out. Come to think of it, I don't even know which travel sites they get the data from. That hasn't stopped rumors that the app has been purchased for $3 million by TripAdvisor.
Filed under: Business, Airlines, Budget Travel, Internet Tools
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Connie Dec 6th 2007 3:36PM
NOWHERE IN THE WORLD COMPARES (IN A NEGATIVE WAY) to Delhi, India. Polution that put LA as totally without along with disease (7 shots before departure). This Ganges received 200 bodies per day in the form of ashes or physical remains - This is one of India's Holy Rivers where locals bathe and wash cloths! If one stays long enough expect to become ill with who know's what. I would NEVER EVER return to this god forsaken country.
Connie R