Originally Posted by ExpertFlyer Voice
Just to clarify this, we are not a "travel service" in that we do not do "bookings", take reservations nor sell tickets. We provide information of various types related to airline travel for virtually all airlines in a concise way. PNR access, while very important to many, is only one facet of the service we offer. Most of our subscribers routinely use and continue to find value in all the other aspects of the service more than PNR access.
ExpertFlyer, is it possible your company owners would consider adding custom services for customers looking for certain pricing opportunities. Many of us look for good pricing values in certain fare classes to do mileage runs for promotions, extra Elite qualification, etc...would it be possible for your service to offer some flavor of the following features:
1) a fare alert service for business and first class. Currently, the big internet travel services will send fare alerts based on a particular price level being reached without regard to cabin. I think a service that sends subscribed alerts for fc/biz fares might be a useful tool for many folks here
2) a fare sniffer - in a nutshell, this is a way of pulling all fare data into a database and doing a re-ordering of the information so a user could see all fares on a particular airline from destination A to any destination that has fares published. For example, let's say I want to do a mileage run or trip in paid FC from FLL to anywhere in the country on CO on a particular day - by plugging my origin airport, booking class and airline into the system, I would receive a list of all published fares in that booking class from my origin to any destination, ranked from lowest to highest, so I could find the destination that offered the best deal....to prevent overload, perhaps only the 20 lowest fares would be returned. You can PM me if you want to discuss my concept in more depth