cFares is a travel site with a difference. It’s a membership based internet travel portal where you can find a lot of travel options at lowest prices. cFares finds deals from every source possible. They find deals from airlines, online travel agencies, wholesalers etc. and since CFares have wholesale deals, they will save you money, particularly for international travel.
cFares is rather unique in its approach to find cheap tickets. It has an option called cAgent, which will monitor fares on international itineraries for up to a week to find one at the price desired and hold a reservation for 24 hours, as well as send an email when the price is discovered.
cFares offers two types of memberships, Gold and Platinum. Gold membership option is free of cost, while Platinum membership will cost you $50 per year. As a platinum member, you have option to access the platinum fares. If you are wondering what platinum fares, let me tell you. Platinum fares are discounted fares which are not published. These fares are not available anywhere else on the web. If you travel more than twice, you should definitely consider Platinum Membership .
As a Gold member you can search through all fares and see the best deals for either Gold or Platinum members. However, to buy a fare that cAgent finds, you must become a Platinum member. Platinum membership allows you to purchase the best priced wholesale fares, get discounted fares available only from cFares, and allows you to purchase below-market fares found by cAgent.
Here is an example of the Platinum fare quoted below from their website:
For example, you may find a round trip ticket from New York to Singapore for $500 on cFares (with rebate). When you select that ticket, you are routed to a travel partner website where the price may be listed at $550, for example. The $50 difference reflects special wholesale pricing available to cFares. After purchasing the ticket from our travel partner, you will return to the cFares Platinum rebate coupon page to claim the $50 rebate. The amount is credited to your credit card, so you don’t need to wait for a check in the mail.
So if you are a frequent flyer, you could easily save a lot of money by subscribing to $50 per year platinum membership. In fact, you could recover your money in just one round trip. If you are frequent flier, you could definitely try cFares services as their is often around $30-$50 discount more than any other travel sites I searched.
January 17th, 2008 at 2:38 am
I should use something like that but not limited to airfaires for my page on mobile phones…Price comparisons would give a more justified review.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:28 am
I have been a member for 5 months now and every time I send email or try to call the customer support number I get NOTHING! They never reply to my emails nor can you reach them by phone. “BEWARE”. Other then that I have gotten some good prices. The rebate page is very hard to fine so most of the time I dont get my rebait back even though it says that I get one. I would have never paid for the membership if I would have known.