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Farecast.com expands to include international travel
Farecast.com, a website that tries to predict airfares based on historic data, has expanded its forecasts to international travel. Choose the date you want to fly and the destination, and Farecast tells you whether you should book the ticket now or wait to get a better price. Its foreign predictions cover more than 200 city pairs, compared with more than 2,100 domestic city pairs, and they don't, as yet, include Africa or Asia.
Farecast, launched in 2006, has been fairly good at predicting prices, but it's not perfect. "We've always said we're not clairvoyant," said Hugh Crean, the company's president and chief executive.
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