Microsoft Bing Travel Search Offers Consumers Fare Predictor

Bing.com, having launched earlier this morning, has been on the web for going on 24-hours now. This has given the general public a peak as to what the new search engine has to offer. As we've said this morning, there are some things we don't like but other things about Bing that we do like! One of the things that we really enjoy about Microsoft Bing is the Travel tool.

Bing Travel makes it much easier to find lower price flights and compare the results against many of the top travel sites like Expedia, CheapTickets, and PriceLine. You can easily adjust the leave and return times of your flights with a slider so that you can narrow your flight schedules down to a smaller number and then sort by price or class after that.



Probably my favorite feature of Bing Travel is the "Tip" or the 7-day Price Predictor. This tool tells you exactly what you should do to get the best prices for your tickets. For example, I did a search for NYC to Las Vegas for Monday June 22nd and returning June 29th and it said to "Wait" on purchasing my tickets. It predicted that the fares would be dropping on average $38 bucks and it was "77% confident" that it would drop.



You can even click on details and fare history to reveal the daily low fare history for your search. It informed me that the 71-day low was $269 and the average low was $288. My search today revealed that I would need to spend $300 (the lowest fare of my search) but if I was to wait, it could drop $38 or more based on the average low. Furthermore, the details reveals that if the prediction is "Right" the fare will drop between $26 - $65 but if they are "Wrong" with the prediction the fair could rise $19 - $63 (14% confidence) or it could "Stay" within $15 (9% confidence).

Microsoft's Bing search has definitely brought something to the table with their Bing Flights products and I'll definitely be checking it out on my future flights.

You can try the new Bing Search for Flights at Bing.com/Travel