I love Yapta. I fly quite a bit and as soon as I know of a flight I need, I start tracking. It's interesting to watch the pricing trends. Then when that email comes announcing a lower price, I buy. I've also received refunds when the price drops enough. Usually Delta has to drop $100 before you'll see any kind of credit or refund, but if it drops within the first 24 hours of buying, you can simply return and repurchase and save the money. I've done this a couple of times so far. I think other airlines are not as steep on their cancellation/change fees, so this would pay off more with a different airline.

I've also got two hopeful trips next year. One to Hawaii and one to Europe. I'm tracking them already, just to get a feel for pricing over the next several months.

I just used Yapta for the first time for an upcoming trip and saved $60 each on three tickets. As another poster commented, it is fascinating to watch the fluctuation of the fare day to day. When I first started tracking the price was $179, but i wasn't certain of my plans so did not purchase the tickets. The next day the fare was raised to $250. Since I knew it had been lower, I set a reminder and tracked the fare daily while it hovered in that range for two weeks. When it dropped back to $189, I jumped. Without Yapta, I would have thought $250 wasn't so bad and purchased the tickets. With Yapta and a little patience, I saved $180! What a great site.

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Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff Pecor
Communications Director
Yapta, Inc.
Seattle, WA

First, let me say that I'm lazy. I don't like going online every day trying to find cheap flights so I usually setup alerts. Now on with the story...

I was looking for a cheap flight from Seattle to Chicago and thought I'd add Yapta to my list of online companies that do fare alerts. What was cool was about a week later I got an email from Yapta telling me the price had dropped from $240 to about $170. The other neat thing was that I didn't have to get a red eye or some other crazy time with 8 hops. I had set Yapta up to watch the particular flights I wanted. So no red eye, a direct flight, saved $70, and I didn't have to do anything.