I just saw this tonight on ABC News.  Yotel.com is the booking site for what I will call the smallest hotels ever.  But what they lack in size they make up for in location, as they are located in and around the airports of London Heathrow and London Gatwick.  They are quickly expanding and have plans to go into Amsterdam’s Schiphol next. They start at £25 for 4 hours, which is the minimum booking time.  I must say, I like the idea.  It’s clever and I see a lot of people taking advantage of these.  Whether or not they are profitable is another thing.  I would think airport space has a premium price.  Although for backpackers like me…it’s still a luxury…I’ve gotten use to using my pack as a pillow and finding an uncrowded span of three airport chairs.

I first heard this new site Farecast.com when they won a Webby Award (Personally I think some corporate politics where involved in that). Here’s what you need to know about Farecast. It’s an airline booking engine developed by Microsoft (that’s the first thing you notice…it also means it’s not eye candy either).

The good: Farecast is probably the first massive airline booking site where the links take you directly to the Airline’s own site (Delta, AA, Southwest etc.). Which is great because anytime you purchase through expedia, orbits, cheaptickets, etc. they will charge you a small additional fee.

Farecast also has a predictive pricing application (currently for about 30 major cities) that allows you to see if the prices are going up or down. For the few test runs I did, they all had the same “Tip: Buy” Prediction.

also like how they handled the “6 tickets left at this price.”

The bad: When I was typing in the cities, it jumped to the search results without first letting me put in my travel dates. Like it was so excited to show off the new search features it skipped important information. I did manage to get it to work eventually.

The confusing: There are plenty of advertisements from Travelocity, Cheapflights, Expedia and more booking engines on Farecast. So I don’t understand? Is Farecast trying to put their sponsors out of business? Because that’s what this booking engine will do. Somebody explain that to me.

Google is just plain dominating the Internet. And as of 2007/2008, we are all loving it. I hope they don’t do something stupid with all that power. According to Google’s blog, Google is now the place to go to see if a flight is ontime, delayed or cancelled. With help from Flightstats.com, all you need to do is type in the Airline and the Flight Number. It will quickly pull up a result and you can see the status without ever going into the site. More information is provided if you do click the link. Not too shabby. Thanks again Google.

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