{"id":6203,"date":"2012-10-02T09:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2012-10-02T07:19:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:19:54","slug":"finding-the-cheapest-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/finding-the-cheapest-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding The Cheapest Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/100212_1114_FindingTheC1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"424\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new website that can help you find cheap flights the next time you need to travel, writes Randall Stross:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At <a href=\"http:\/\/flightfox.com\/\">FlightFox.com <\/a>you post the itinerary that you would like to fly. Registered users then compete to find you the lowest fare possible.<\/li>\n<li>The person who finds the best fare gets a &#8220;finder&#8217;s fee&#8221; most of which range between $34 and $59.<\/li>\n<li>One traveler whose trip included 15 destinations over four months was able to save several thousands of dollars by using the site.<\/li>\n<li>Users can also specify if they need to travel with their pet or carry an odd sized item such as a surfboard \u2013 something that standard flight searching algorithms can&#8217;t do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how the site works, who searches for the fares, and the amount of money that people have made and saved through the site over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/30\/technology\/flightfox-lets-the-crowd-find-the-best-airfares.html?_r=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/30\/technology\/flightfox-lets-the-crowd-find-the-best-airfares.html?_r=1\">The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/10\/crowdsourcing-the-lowest-fare.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new website that can help you find cheap flights the next time you need to travel, writes Randall Stross: At FlightFox.com you post the itinerary that you would like to fly. Registered users then compete to find you the lowest fare possible. The person who finds the best fare gets a &#8220;finder&#8217;s fee&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/100212_1114_FindingTheC1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}