Farecast.com, the airfare prediction website, announced today that consumers can now shop for airfare on Farecast.com for any airport and destination nationwide. The company also added free airfare predictions from 20 additional cities, bringing the total to 75 cities across the country.

With Farecast.com, airfare shoppers can buy directly with airline websites. Unlike other airfare search engines, Farecast.com simplifies the shopping experience by showing only the booking options that provide the best value and the lowest fares to consumers.

"It's a myth that shoppers need to search across 'hundreds' of airfare websites to find the best price," said Hugh Crean, Farecast's president and chief executive officer. "Booking with airline websites provides the best value -- no booking fees, earn bonus miles, lowest fare guarantees -- so the reality is that for most trips, you only need to see results from a handful of airline websites."

With support from some of the world's largest carriers, Farecast.com developed technology to streamline the Farecast.com-to-airline-website booking process, making airfare shopping and booking much easier for consumers.

Asian airlines charge world's lowest domestic airfares

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (eTN) -- A study commissioned by Malaysia Airlines has revealed that eight Asian-based airlines, with the exception of Japanese Airlines, charge the lowest fares per mile in the world for domestic flights on full service carriers.

Domestic airfares in France comes in at ninth, charging US$1.03 per mile and the UK at tenth lowest, charging $1.05 per mile for European-based carriers in the table of ten lowest fares. US and Canadian carriers, outside of the top ten on the table, charge an average of $2.88 per mile. "Thai carriers charge the cheapest at only 17 cents per mile, followed by Malaysia a close second at 19 cents, with the highest charged by an Asian carrier at 54 cents per mile, by Australian carriers. The study confirms the assertion in the travel industry that Asian carriers offer the best deals for holiday travel when bundled with hotel rooms.

Pleasant Holidays cuts tour deal with go!

Mesa Air Group's go!, strengthening its presence in the Hawaii market, has struck a deal with its first tour operator, Westlake Village, Calif.-based Pleasant Holidays, as part of the interisland carrier's newly created go!Vacations.

The Phoenix-based company, which began service June 9 and sparked an interisland airfare war with $19 one-way tickets, announced the new feature this morning. However, go! actually began selling the holiday packages last week on its Web site. The packages include hotels, rental cars, tours and transfers.

Hawaiian Airlines and Aloha Airlines offer tour packages through other companies on their respective Web sites.

"It has always been go!'s intention to offer our customers a large choice of value-added products which generate additional revenue, enabling us to offer the people of Hawaii the lowest fares," said Jonathan Ornstein, chairman and chief executive of Mesa.

Farecast.com Simplifies Airfare Search Experience for All US ...

SEATTLE, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Farecast.com, the airfare prediction website, announced today that consumers can now shop for airfare on Farecast.com for any airport and destination nationwide. The company also added free airfare predictions from 20 additional cities, bringing the total to 75 cities across the country.

With Farecast.com, airfare shoppers can buy directly with airline websites. Unlike other airfare search engines, Farecast.com simplifies the shopping experience by showing only the booking options that provide the best value and the lowest fares to consumers.

"It's a myth that shoppers need to search across 'hundreds' of airfare websites to find the best price," said Hugh Crean, Farecast's president and chief executive officer. "Booking with airline websites provides the best value -- no booking fees, earn bonus miles, lowest fare guarantees -- so the reality is that for most trips, you only need to see results from a handful of airline websites."

With support from some of the world's largest carriers, Farecast.com developed technology to streamline the Farecast.com-to-airline-website booking process, making airfare shopping and booking much easier for consumers.