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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : Airfare

05.07.2009 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Uncategorized

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7/05/2009 – iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : Airfare

There are many iPhone Apps for finding flights online, and on my iPhone I currently have around half-a-dozen iPhone Apps for either booking flights or finding the ‘cheapest flight.’

Sometimes the ‘cheapest flight’ is not the most convenient flight, but then again there are times every traveller just wants the cheapest flight (OK, to me be honest I often go with the cheapest flight that matches my schedule and airline alliance preferences over the absolute cheapest flight).

For those looking for the cheapest flights ‘Airfare’ iPhone App, by inZania, is the best option I have found yet!

‘Airfare’ searches a wide variety of airfare sites to search for airfares, then rank them in order of pricing.   To check the reliability of ‘Airfare‘ I checked 20 random routings, for 20 different dates and ‘Airfare‘ returned the best fare options for 16 of these flight searches. With an 85% success rate ‘Airfare‘ comes out well ahead of other low-fare iPhone Apps I have tested.

To be fair, of the four flights where I found better fares, two of those routings were curve-balls that usually throw most airfare booking sites for a loop.

When checking how ‘Airfare‘ works I tested against how often the App would choose one website over another and in the end to my surprise the App does not appear to favour one airfare booking site over another.  Priceline did pop up four times, but I also ended up with fares from other sites as well, including Expedia, Orbitz, US Airways, American Airlines and Travelocity.

For maximum flexibility ‘Airfare‘ also lets users search fares for a month rather than by specific date. If you’re flexible on your travel dates you can save hundreds of dollars using the search-by-month option rather than the search by date option.

The ‘Airfare‘ iPhone App is currently on sale for US$1.99 and works with airlines worldwide and worldwide routings.

Below are 10 screen shots of Airfare from my iPhone.

Happy Flying!
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2 Responses

  1. Asif September 22nd, 2010 at 9:35 pm

    Dear,

    I live in Kuwait, when I tried to check the fare for flight between Kuwait & Mumbai, it does not work. Please look inti this

    Regards,

  2. flyingfish September 23rd, 2010 at 7:23 am

    Asif,

    I can send the App developer a message. I do not create the iPhone Apps, I choose the ones I like to review.

    Happy Flying!

    -Fish

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