While last minute planners are paying a premium for Spring Break getaways, savvy travelers are already planning and pricing the annual summer vacation. Kayak.com has enhanced its industry-leading Fare Alerts to make the tracking process easier for both the flexible traveler and travelers with a specific itinerary in mind. Users of Kayak.com and SideStep.com can now track fares for a specific date or monitor the best prices for a timeframe such as an upcoming weekend or a given month. Travelers interested in a region of the world but have flexibility on the specific city can track the best prices for a region such as the Caribbean or Europe.

“Revamped Fare Alerts are yet another way Kayak.com breaks the industry model and empowers travelers with better information,” said Drew Patterson, Kayak.com VP of Marketing. “Kayak.com is the only site that allows the traveler to track fares to all destinations around the globe, for any date in the future, with flexible or specific dates, for an unlimited trip length, accompanied by price changes. No other travel site offers this many options available for tracking, without any limitations.”

Users can create Fare Alerts by clicking on the “Get fare alerts for this trip” link on the top right-hand corner of the flight results page. The Fare Alert text box further personalizes the search by asking about maximum price considered, currency, number of travelers and frequency of email notification. Only Kayak.com Fare Alerts enable users to select number of travelers which provides two benefits: quoted fares displayed in flight results are available for the entire family and deals such as cheaper companion fares can be found.

Kayak.com will alert Kayakers according to their preferences for daily or weekly email notification. The enhanced design of the Fare Alerts email provides several fare history trend tools the user can use to make an informed decision about where to go and when to purchase. New features of the Fare Alert email include:

• Dollar amount that a fare has increased or decreased since the alert was created
• Best Fare Trend Graph which displays airfare history for the requested route based on searches by Kayakers over the past 90 days
• Snapshot of prices in Kayak.com’s matrix view which enables users to quickly compare prices by carrier and number of stops
• Ability to search for updated prices and availability, edit the alert or delete the alert

All registered Fare Alerts will arrive in one email so savvy travelers
tracking dozens of trips will receive no more than one email per day
or week as requested

Flexible Travelers Rejoice in Kayak Buzz

Not everyone knows where they want to go for their summer vacation and when. Kayak.com provides a crystal ball of prices for users who are both date challenged and date and destination challenged:

Flexible travelers who have their heart set on a destination but are willing to wait for the most affordable dates of travel should choose the “Lowest Fare” option which tracks the best fares for upcoming weekends (next six weekends), for a specific month or anytime for the true bargain hunter.

Only Kayak.com helps the traveler who knows the type of vacation they want such as Caribbean getaway or European adventure but has not decided on a specific destination. Users can search and track the best fares to the “Top 25 Cities” in a region including US, Europe, Caribbean, Mexico/Central America, Asia, Africa and Australia/Oceanic. The budget conscious traveler can narrow in on the perfect destination based on price or use the Google Map to weigh options such as travel time and weather.

Kayak.com was the first Travel Search Engine to launch Fare Alerts in January 2006. Since that time, the product has been enhanced several times based on user feedback.

Fare and Buzz Alerts can be created, managed and edited by visiting the Buzz Homepage or “My Profile” section. Users must be signed in to utilize the Buzz and Fare Alert products. The Buzz Homepage includes additional Kayak.com tools such as “Late Breaking Fares”, a continuous scroll of up-to-the minute prices from the user’s home airport as found in real times searches, and “Trip Ideas”, “Best of” lists and vacation recommendations from travel professionals including the Travel Channel, Frommers.com and About.com.

About Kayak.com

Kayak.com, the largest Travel 2.0 site in the world, is a global Internet media company operating Kayak.com, Sidestep.com, TravelPost.com and TravelSearch.com. Kayak.com and SideStep.com display results from more than 400 travel sites, providing prices and itineraries for hundreds of airlines, more than 90,000 hotels, all leading rental car companies and 18 cruise lines. Kayak.com has won more awards since launch than any other travel site including “100 Best Products of 2007” by PC World; “25 Sites We Can’t Live Without” by TIME Magazine; “Best Search Engine” by the Associated Press; and “Best of the Web” by BusinessWeek, Forbes.com and US News & World Report. Launched in 2005 by co-founders of Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia, Kayak.com’s investors include General Catalyst Partners, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital, Oak Investment Partners, Lehman Brothers Venture Partners and America Online, Inc. Kayak.com has sites in the UK, France, Germany and Spain. For more information, visit www.Kayak.com.