About: Find out fast when fares to your favorite destinations drop by at least 20%! It's easy, thanks to Travelocity's new RSS feed.
Randy: I had to blog this. Why? Because, it's absolutely the worst implementation of RSS I've ever seen. It's not really a technical problem, it's more of a they don't get it. You see, I viewed a few of their feed and they all returned exactly the same thing. If you subscribe to their feed, then you get a constant reminder in your RSS aggregator that Travelocity has 20% off fairs to your chosen destination. That's it :-(
hey randy - thanks for trying out our feed and we appreciate the feedback. this is completely a test phase right now and your comment is interesting because we actually really struggled with the need to fully explain how the fare alert works balanced with explaining to our unfamiliar users exactly what an RSS feed is.
looks like we should work a bit more on the former. you see when the market you select has a fare that is at least a 20% savings then your feed will show you the price and savings percentage for your selected market that day. please check your feed again and you'll see that they do change.
if your fare does not meet that criteria for the day, we display top markets that are pricing with at least a 20% discount as an alternative to showing nothing or a possibly unattractive price. it was important to us to not just publish airfares but rather to publish real, legitimate "deals" to make the feeds informative and compelling.
we'll work on how to make that more clear in the instances that the airfares are not meeting our "deal" criteria.
thanks for the great and honest feedback, we're working on it... please check back!
Patty Hagar
Travelocity
I purchased a trip on Travelocity on Wed March 18 for 776.40 and on Friday, March 20 they deducted $2088.40 out of my account. It is Saturday, March 21 and no one has resolved this issue. I just sent a letter to the President/CEO Hugh Jones. The most frustrating part is that I used my debit card and now my account is in the red!! TRAVELRS BEWARE!!!
Yes, unfortunately Travelocity is not a reputable company. The comments here are correct. The India based support is not well informed, difficult to understand, and powerless to do anything. I cancelled my reservations within the 24 hour window of initial booking and still haven't gotten my credit card refunded after 45 days. Dr. D.