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Yapta will send you an email alert if you're eligible for a refund and instructions on how to get it. The next thing you know, you've saved some moolah that you can squander on your holiday.
30 Ways to Save
"A new travel site on the block is Yapta which also monitors flights and will refund you the difference in a price drop."
Yapta Pockets $2 Million in Second Round
"Yapta.com, a Website that helps users locate bargain airfare and hotel prices, has nabbed $2 million in a second round of financing, led by Voyager Capital."
Yapta lands $2M to track airfare and hotel prices
"Yapta.com, a site that monitors airfare and hotel prices to get users bargains, has raised $2 million in a second round of funding to further product development and expand its marketing strategy. The company says it's not enough anymore to use sites that find only the cheapest fares at the time, since these prices fluctuate so widely."
How to Save $240 on Vacation Airfare
"In addition to the biggie travel sites like Expedia and Orbitz, there's a plentiful list of aggregators to choose from like Travelocity.com, Hotels.com, and Travelzoo, which delivers its deals through its website and its Top 20 email. Other aggregator sites include Kayak.com, SideStep.com, Yapta.com, 1800FlyEurope.com, and I'mWillingToRideInCargo.com (kidding on that last one)."
Plug into savings
"Yapta.com favored by: Airline travelers in a survey by research firm J.D. Power."
Top 10 Places to Stretch Your Dollar This Summer
"Airfare is higher for summer, so you may want to use www.yapta.com or www.bing.com/travel/ (formerly farecast.com) to find a bargain fare or use airline mileage if you have enough for Hawaii."
Price drops, but it's hard to catch a break
"Another good site is Yapta.com. I've been tracking Los Angeles-New York flights because I thought the fare was too high at $379 when I first started looking in February. On May 8, Yapta alerted me that the fare had dropped $60."
9 Ways to Get Your Vacation for Less
"At yapta.com, you can track the price of a flight before and after you book it, and yapta.com will alert you (by e-mail or Twitter) if the rate drops. Contact the airline directly for a refund; for $15, Yapta will go to bat for you."
Fresh Air: Sunny, Chance of Bargains
"The other useful thing about Yapta that I like is you can track prices before you buy. And so if you're unsure, you.re looking at particular flights, you think the price may drop, you don't want to be - you know, prices change seven times a day. You don't want to be constantly checking airfares. Use Yapta to automatically check for you."
Yapta adds international carriers - could you be saving money on an overseas flight?
"Just in time for summer, Yapta has added nine international carriers to the list of airlines it tracks for travelers. That brings the total to 35 airlines (domestic and international) that Yapta will track for you."
40 Most Useful Travel Websites That Can Save You a Fortune
"Yapta stands for Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant. Yapta notifies you when prices for flights drop. It can do it even after you purchase your tickets, giving you a chance to get a refund of the difference from the airline. If you prefer, Yapta will haggle with the airline on your behalf for a $15 fee."
Las Vegas hotel deals for Memorial Day weekend
"According to Yapta, there are indications that some areas of the travel industry are expecting to rebound, including hotel prices in Vegas."
Top Travel Sites for Saving Money and Avoiding Hassle
"Prices on many flights are currently dropping, so it.s a good idea to use Yapta.s flight price tracking service: Enter the price you paid for your ticket, and the site will tell you if it drops. You can also check a list of available refunds."
Can I Rebook If the Price of My Flight Drops?
"Yapta offers a tracking tool that will alert you to significant price drops. That way, you'll know when to seek a voucher, and when it's not worth it. Yapta also details a handful of major airlines' ticket-change policies, which makes finding that information a heck of a lot easier than digging through your carrier's contract of carriage."
Deal, or No Deal?
"There are automated fare-watch programs - Yapta is a current favorite of price-obsessive fliers - but you can also do it yourself a few weeks before you fly. If you find a substantially lower fare, call the airline and get a voucher for the price difference, minus an admittedly hefty ticket-rewrite fee."
Top 10 Money-saving Guides for Common Purchases
"For the hard dollars and cents of saving, try using one of our readers' favorite non-airline-sponsored deal finders and ticket predictors: Kayak, Yapta, or Live Search Farecast (okay, that last one is owned by Microsoft, which also books through Expedia, but, still, it's not exactly an airline price pusher)."
On Course: Dispatches from the Travel Editor's desk
"Yapta has just introduced a feature that allows consumers to sign up for price tracking on specific hotels. Search the site for hotel availability on specific dates, then sign up for notification if rates drop on a specific hotel that interests you."
Save money after you book your flight
"According to online flight tracking service, Yapta, airfares go through an average of 21 price changes over a 45 day tracking period."
Booked a flight, but found a better deal? Get refunded
"There's a site that makes traveling a whole lot easier."
Yapta.com CEO Tom Romary weighs in on the state of airline industry
"We like to say it's a transparent version of 'name your own price.'"
Airfare Sites Adding Hotels
"And Yapta.com, which specializes in monitoring airline ticket pricing, announced a new hotel price tracking service last month. Not only will users be able to compare the prices on domestic and international hotels, they will also be able to track when these hotels are offering their most affordable rates. With its "track price drops" function, the Web site will locate the lowest published rate of a tracked hotel and will create a graphic that shows the price of a specific hotel over time."
Hard Times? Time to Take Off
"A March flight to London from Chicago on United, for example, was $475.60 on March 4, down from $629.90 the month before, according to the airfare tracking site Yapta.com."
Travelers Find It Pays to Wait for Late Deals
"Mr. Moses says Yapta has been indispensable in recent months because he often flies Jetblue out of Oakland, Calif. He bought his ticket to New York in September for $589, but after Yapta emailed him about price drops over the past few months, he has received five credits worth a total of $213 from JetBlue for future tickets."
As Airfares Fall, Save Even After Buying
"Using your confirmation number, Yapta.com will automatically track the price of your ticket, taking the airline.s fees into consideration. If the price drop exceeds the fee, Yapta will send you, without charge, an e-mail message or Twitter alert notifying you of the refund."
News Talk Radio with Michael Finney
Web site tracks cheapest hotel, flight prices
"The free, Seattle-based Web site works like a personal travel assistant. It helps you find the lowest airfare around by comparing prices. You can look up a flight, book it and Yapta will track your ticket to make sure you're getting the cheapest price available."
Yapta helps connect travelers with savings
"Travelers once didn't care if they paid a premium to fly at certain times, but things have changed. People are paying more attention to their travel budgets, and benefit from Yapta's information."
Budget Spring Getaways
"Yapta.com will help you get a refund if your fare drops."
Hotels: Get a lower price when rates drop (by using Yapta)
"Of course, Yapta's new hotel-tracking service can also help you decide when to book a hotel room in the first place. Pick the hotel you're interested in booking and then sign up to be automatically alerted when the rate drops."
Yapta tracks hotels so you don't have to
"The site checks the hotel prices daily and compares them to find similar properties. Once a customer's specified threshold of affordability is reached, they can be alerted to the price drop and acquire a room."
"Do your due diligence and check all the sites like Kayak and SideStep and Yapta. If you do your work, you'll get some great deals."
Yapta Now Tracks Price Drops For Hotels Too
"The key functionality for Yapta is the tracking feature - it's definitely a useful and easy way to compare travel prices without the hassle of having to constantly monitor changes in hotel and flight prices."
Deal or no deal? 6 secrets for spotting a bargain
"I also like Yapta (http://www.yapta.com), which can show a trend-line for airfares. 'You can see the airfare pricing history on a number of flights between various city pairs,' company spokesman Jeff Pecor told me."
Airfare alerts now on Twitter
"Yapta.com, an online travel shopping service that monitors airline ticket pricing and award seat availability for travelers, has made its airfare savings alerts available via Twitter feed."
Big Moves, Big Bargains
"Yapta.com goes a step further. It'll help you get a refund if you buy a ticket and the price later drops."
Money Saver Report: Online Travel Deals
"If you'd like to take a spring vacation, new online tools can help you save big on airfare even after you book your trip. Andrea Kamins has a secret. '(Yapta) saved me probably a little more than $200,' Kamins said."
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
Media Contact
- Jeff Pecor
- Director of Communications
- jeff@yapta.com
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