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Here’s a great site I recommend to check before you purchase your next airline tickets:  Farecast.com.

Farecast is a site that not only searches current airfare prices, but also prices stored in it’s huge database of past prices which are correlated to the date the prices were offered prior to the flight.  Based on all its data, it can predict with some certainty whether the prices for a flight X number of days or weeks in the future will go down or up.  Plus you can check trends of recent prices to see how the current prices compare.

They used to predict the BHM-MSP trip, but no more   They offer the service for many routes between many major cities.  The following screenshot shows its claim to fame, the price predictor:

Even without the price prediction, the site has some easy to use filters for flight duration, departure/arrival time, cost, etc.  Plus, Consumer Reports recommends them.

Since Microsoft bought (4/18/08) and relaunched (5/21/08), Farecast you will now end up at http://farecast.live.com.

I’m wondering if they can adjust for the recent fuel cost increases?

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