While I'm glad they still provide this page, it doesn't negate the other complaints mentioned above (which I share) about the direction in which farecompare is moving. I'm all for them generating revenue, of course, but many of the changes (read: largely useless bells and whistles) they've implemented only serve to make navigation more cumbersome. Same goes for the fare alert emails. There's more and more garbage, which seems to hearken back to late-90s web design theory (more colors! more moving parts!). CPMaverick nailed it with the Google comment.

Take the fare calendar linked off the FT page. It used to be so simple, so straightforward. You could click a 'leave date' and immediately see the top fares offered, by whom, and at what price. Yes the new version offers similar information, but it takes much longer and isn't as intuitive. New features (even ones not useful to FTers) are fine, I just they wouldn't make the old ones less functional and harder to use.