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Shop for deals, not stuff: Linda Stern
"Register any airlines tickets you buy at yapta.com; it will notify you if prices drop enough for you to request an adjustment on your fare."
This just in - Yapta can Twitter you when a flight price drops
"Yapta.com, best known for finding you rebates after you buy your ticket, has a whole bunch of other features worth noting. They track airfare prices and let you know when they drop, tell you when award seats become available so you can buy your ticket with frequent-flier miles and - the latest tool made available today - send you fare alerts by Twitter."
Money-saving tips for travel tightwads
"For airline ticket savings, Chicago-based freelance editor Kim Wiseman swears by the travel Web site yapta.com because it monitors fares even after a ticket is purchased and will help you get a refund if the fare goes down."
Recession-beating strategies help you vacation without breaking the bank
"If you purchase your airline ticket directly through an airline website, Yapta.com will alert you if the price drops -- and even provide specific instructions on how to get a refund."
Yapta saves fliers cash with alerts on ticket price reductions
"The airlines like the fact that Yapta drives direct bookings to their own sites," Romary said of his company's relationship with the 30 carriers that it monitors. "The reality is that most people already are doing comparison shopping on the Web, but we show the comparisons and help consumers get something back if there.s a sale."
New Year, New Economy, New Travel Deals
"In order to stay on top of changing airfares, consider using the new Web site Yapta, which tracks some U.S. carriers and tags flights requested by users, then sends email alerts of best prices and mileage awards."
How to Get a Refund When Your Airfare Drops
"If your fare drops to the point where you qualify for a voucher and you don.t want to deal with the airline yourself, Yapta will do it for you for a $15 fee per service action (if there are up to five people on your reservation, Yapta will get you voucher money for each ticket in the reservation for the flat fee)."
The Goods: Business Travel
"Yapta.com will alert you when a good price appears on the flight you want. If the price falls after you have bought the ticket, Yapta will, for $15, try to get you a refund or credit for the difference."
Ways to Stretch Travel Dollars in the New Year
"Yapta.com, a Web site that can track fares on specific routes and dates for you, added a new feature this fall that can alert you when airlines make new seats available at the lowest-priced frequent-flier award levels."
Top Travel Web Sites
"If you've booked a flight directly through an airline website, Yapta will monitor the fare, alert you if the price drops, and instruct you how to get a refund from the airline for the difference (yes, it's often possible)."
The Best Travel Web Sites
"This site goes beyond tracking airfares. You plug in a route and it will monitor and alert you if the fare drops substantially. Even if the fare drops after you already bought more expensive tickets, it helps you get the credit on the difference. Now you can also get alerts when your frequent-flier miles can be used on specific flights."
Yapta helps find lowest airline ticket prices
"The other stellar feature of Yapta is its new ability to tell you when frequent flier seat space opens up on a flight you want. How wonderful is that?"
Yapta helps frequent fliers find award seats
"...Yapta - the innovative online fare-tracking search site - just added a frequent-flier feature: Enter a flight you want to take and Yapta will notify you if and when an award seat becomes available."
Ed Perkins on Travel: Finding Frequent Flyer Seats
"The process is simple. Log onto Yapta (www.yapta.com), enter your personal information and search for a flight itinerary you want to take. Yapta notifies you if either (1) the fare goes down or (2) a frequent-flier seat becomes available at the lowest award mileage requirement."
Best Ways to Redeem Frequent-Flier Miles
"Yapta.com just introduced a new feature that alerts travelers when a frequent-flier award seat becomes available on the flight they want."
T+L's Top Travel Websites of 2008
"If you've booked a flight directly through an airline website, Yapta will monitor the fare, alert you if the price drops, and instruct you how to get a refund from the airline for the difference (yes, it's often possible)."
8 Sites to Change Your Life
"When you get your itinerary, just email it to Yapta at flights@yapta.com. It's literally just a matter of forwarding what the airlines send you. Couldn't be easier."
Get e-mail alerts when a frequent-flier seat becomes available
"Search for airfare on Yapta.com and click "including award tickets" to begin tracking the flight. Yapta will automatically send e-mail alerts if either the price drops or a seat available for frequent-flier point redemption becomes available."
Web sites ease travel woes
"Yapta basically acts as your personal travel assistant"
Yapta now tracks discounts by frequent-flier miles
"Travel planning service Yapta has a cool new feature for registered users that lets you track price drops or award seats based on your frequent-flier mileage."
Here's help with using frequent-flier miles
"Seattle-based Yapta.com is launching a service that will notify travelers when they can use miles to book an award seat that becomes available on a specific flight."
Unused Frequent-Flier Seats in a Flash
"Known for alerting travelers to airfare price drops even after the ticket has been purchased, the site is testing a new service that allows travelers to receive an e-mail alert when an award seat becomes available."
This Season, Procrastination May Pay Off
"Yapta.com, another price-tracking service, alerts travelers to price drops even after the ticket has been bought. Travelers can call the airline to claim their travel credit themselves or pay $15 to have Yapta do it."
Five Best Travel Sites for Cheap Tickets
"Before your purchase, Yapta will track a flight and alert you when it falls below your desired price. After your purchase, Yapta will continue tracking the ticket price. If it drops, the site will send an alert if you're eligible for a refund or travel credit."
Website tracks airfares and helps customers save
"Each airline has its own policy when it comes to refunds or travel credits. The Yapta website has detailed information on those policies."
Alpha Consumer: Saving on Airline Tickets
Kimberly Palmer, Senior Editor at U.S. News & World Report , talks travel with Yapta CEO, Tom Romary
The Gift of Savings
"Already bought your ticket? No problem. If your ticket drops in price, Yapta will notify you so you can get a refund or voucher from the airline."
Online tips help stretch your travel dollar
"Yapta only sends an alert if the savings are more than the airline's rebooking fees, and claims 19% of purchased flights qualify."
How to Save on Holiday Travel
"Yapta.com, for example, allows passengers to track fares before they book, as well as sign up for e-mail updates that will alert them if their ticket price drops after they've paid for it."
19 Sites for Smart Flying
"Yapta.com is one of the brightest lights to hit the travel scene in recent years."
Track air fares for money back
"It's like your own personal travel agent that tracks fares for you, alerts you when prices go down, and helps you get a refund if you qualify."
Web Competition Spurs Travel Deals
"If you can plan in advance, set up a fare alert sent via email, available on sites including Farecast and Yapta.com. That can help you see what a "good deal" really is for your itinerary and tip you off to a deal that could disappear quickly."
Budget travel deals and tips
"Yapta.com e-mails subscribers when fares drop, even after they've purchased a ticket. It's a little known fact that major U.S. carriers often give you a voucher for the difference if the ticket price drops before you travel."
Steals & Deals on Flights
"Yapta.com alerts travelers to price drops even after the ticket has been purchased. You plug in your ticket confirmation code and Yapta alerts you when the price drops so you can ask for a refund."
Five Ways to Save on the Net
"Yapta.com, your awesome personal travel assistant.com. What this does, you buy a ticket to say LA you spend a $1000 for the ticket. Well what if the airline reduces the price after you buy it? Yapta will tell you there's been a fare reduction and they will alert you to that change, you call the airlines and their policy is to reimburse you for the difference. Yapta says the average savings is $227."
For Some, Next Year Is Already Here
"Yapta debuted in May 2007 as a tool you had to download to your computer. But a recent upgrade made all its features available on its website. It also added a flight search tool and the ability to store all your frequent flier account information in one place."
Travel Tips
"Your amazing personal travel assistant awaits at yapta.com. Pick the flights you like and if the prices drop, you'll be notified. Yapta continues to track fares even after you buy your ticket, so you may be able to get a refund or credit from the airline if fares go down."
A way to save on flights
"Yapta debuted in May 2007 as a tool you had to download to your computer. But a recent upgrade made all its features available on its website. It also added a flight search tool and the ability to store all your frequent flier account information in one place."
Three Great New Travel Sites
"Yapta.com . Check to see if the ticket price you booked has dropped, and get an airline voucher for the difference."
Yapta Graduates From Browser Add-0n to Flight-Tracking Website
"Now, 350,000 registered users later, Yapta has finally launched as a full-fledged Website, where you can track fares from 23 different airlines, including American, Delta, United, Jet Blue, Virgin America, and many newly added international carriers..."
Cheap Summer Getaways? There Are Still Deals
"...Yapta also continues to track a flight for price drops after users have bought their ticket. This feature allows users to know whether they can collect a refund from the airline if they paid more for their ticket."
How to Find the Best Travel Deals
"It's easier than ever to find good deals. The Web is playing a big part, through sites such as yapta.com."
New Web Sites Every Traveler Needs
"Fare alerts make it easier than ever for travelers to find the absolute cheapest rate being offered. Yapta.com is one of the most successful of these fare tracking sites and can help you secure the best airfare deals available on the web."
The Best Travel Websites You've Never Heard Of
"This thing is fantastic... When you go looking for airfares, you can tag airfares that you're interested in. When the prices go down, Yapta tells ya."
ABC7 On Your Side: Save on travel
"You register for free, download the Yapta Tracker, and it searches for the lowest prices on your desired flight. If the prices seem too high, Yapta will e-mail you when prices drop."
Fare Warning
"Frustrated by constantly changing airfares? A website called Yapta.com tracks prices and alerts you when a fare drops for a flight. Even better, it continues to track prices after you.ve bought your tickets and lets you know if you're eligible for a refund of the fare difference."
Cheap tricks for summer travel
"Yapta.com will notify you when the price of a flight reaches your threshold, and if you ticket through the site, it will notify you if the ticket price drops to the extent that you're eligible for a refund. Yapta will even contact the airline to see about getting that credit."
52 Ways to Wander Better
"YAPTA - Best Fare Police: Your Amazing Personal Travel Agent tracks fares for you. and follows the price after you've purchased a ticket."
Friendlier Skies
"...By installing Yapta's free-of-charge application on your computer, you can track specific flights on an ever-growing list of airlines, including American, Delta, Continental, and JetBlue."
Save On Soaring Air Fares
"Yapta.com: Best for watching for price drops, and scoring refunds. This site keeps tabs on fare fluctuations before and after you book your flight, so you can get any applicable credits, or even cash back from the airline if the price drops."
Best new airline Web sites
"This site keeps tabs on fare fluctuations before and after you book your flight, so you can get any applicable credits or even cash back from the airline if the price drops. Caveat: Refund policies apply only if you book directly with the airline."
5 smart sites to put $50 in your pocket - fast
"...Plug your itinerary into Yapta.com and it will alert you if and when prices drop."
Tech winners tapped by WSA, er, WTIA
"Consumer Product or Service of the Year: Yapta (Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant), a Web service that helps travelers find lower airfares and credits when prices fall after they buy tickets."
Five Up-and-Coming Sites You Should Know About
"...Use the "Tag It With Yapta" button to learn about price changes while you're shopping for a fare, or provide the confirmation number for a flight you've already booked. The site then alerts you by e-mail if the price drops and you might qualify for a partial refund."
Putting the "Fair" in Airfare
"...Forward your flight confirmation e-mail to flights@yapta.com (or for paper tickets, e-mail the confirmation code), and the site will notify you if you.re eligible for a voucher or refund should the price you paid fall."
Pocketbook Helper$
"You book, prices drop -- it's NOT game over! This could be one of the Web's best-kept secrets: On Yapta, you can plug in your itinerary (before or after you book) and it will alert you if/when prices drop."
Get the Best Price on Airline Tickets
"There's nothing more frustrating than buying an airplane ticket online and then seeing the price drop a few weeks later. With Yapta, you can track a flight so you'll get alerted when the price drops."
New generation of Web sites for travel planning
"...Yapta can continue tracking prices even after you purchase the ticket. If you booked directly with the airline and the price drops below what you paid, you may be eligible for a refund or credit from the airline."
50 Best Travel Websites of 2007
"A great tool for travel bargain hunters..."
Yapta.com tracks your flight options for you
"Yapta.com has a new tool to compare flight options and airfares while you're searching different websites for flights. It puts prices for different flight options in a sidebar for easy comparison."
Q&A with Tom Romary, CEO of Yapta.com
"... Yapta.com opened their doors to the public this summer and has since wowed the likes of The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, WIRED and TIME who named them one of the 50 Best Websites for 2007. I got a chance to talk to Tom Romary, the CEO of Yapta, and he gave me good reason to start using their website. Read on and you'll get the inside scoop on new features they are launching today, in a few weeks and shortly down the road."
Fly The Cheaper Skies
"...Most airlines will issue refunds or travel vouchers to customers who buy tickets that later drop in price, and a new Web site makes it easy to track that. You can send your itinerary to yapta.com (which stands for 'your amazing personal travel assistant') and it will alert you when prices drop..."
"The price of your airline ticket dropped after you bought it? No problem. Get a refund or a travel voucher for the price difference through www.yapta.com. Type in your confirmation number and ticket price and Yapta will track the fare for you, free. If the price drops, you'll receive an e-mail with step-by-step instructions on how to claim your refund and spread your wings for less."
T+L's Top 25 Travel Websites Web site Yapta helps you compare prices, track cost changes for airfare
"Yapta lets you track airfare prices and share the information with others. See a flight you're interested in? Bookmark it, and flight and fare data is stored in your Yapta account. If you find other options, you can bookmark those too, then go back and compare them all."
Websites Unveil Unique Approaches
"Keeping track of fares that can seesaw several times a day is a nightmare. Once you've tagged potential flights, [Yapta] not only monitors them, but also alerts you to any price drops."
"Yapta makes it easy to tag a flight (much the way the articletagging application del.icio.us works), and it alerts you if you meet the criteria. It's also incredibly useful before you buy."
How to Get Money Back When Airfares Drop
"A few days later, she got notification from Yapta that the price had dropped to about $400 per ticket. She called UAL Corp.'s United and got tickets reissued at the lower price plus four $400 vouchers."
Yapta: A smarter way to travel
"Yapta, a new way to track and compare airline ticket prices has opened its doors to the public."
Get Cash Back When Fares Drop
"The best option of all may be one that came out of beta-testing this morning, Yapta.com, whose entire mission is to handle all of your searches for you"
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,May 22, 2007How to Get Money Back When Airfares Drop
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