ExpertFlyer Partners With FlightStats to Deliver Unmatched Flight Selection Intelligence

Expert Flyer.com has partnered with FlightStats to offer its subscribers a fast and convenient way to access detailed airline and flight on-time ratings and statistics. This new feature now provides travelers with a single, comprehensive suite of travel tools to find the perfect flight, fare, upgrade and Awards ticket while basing an entire travel itinerary on the historical and predicted future of scheduled arrivals and delays of specific airlines and flights worldwide.

New York, NY (PRWEB) May 18, 2007 -- ExpertFlyer.com, the premiere air travel information tool offering complete and efficient ways to access the ever changing details of worldwide air travel information, announced it has partnered with FlightStats to offer its subscribers a fast and convenient way to access detailed airline and flight on-time ratings and statistics. FlightStats is the world's leading resource for global, real-time, historical and predictive flight information. This new feature further empowers ExpertFlyer.com subscribers by providing a single, comprehensive suite of travel tools to find the perfect flight, fare, upgrade and Awards ticket while basing an entire travel itinerary on the historical and predicted future of scheduled arrivals and delays of specific airlines and flights worldwide.

"All flights, even those on a single route and carrier, do not perform the same," says Meara McLaughlin, VP of Business Development at FlightStats. "With delays and trip interruptions becoming more common, frequent travelers need to consider comparative performance patterns when planning their travel. No one wants to purchase a habitually delayed or cancelled flight if they can avoid it. This integrated information will markedly improve subscriber's quality of travel."

With delays and trip interruptions becoming more common, frequent travelers need to consider comparative performance patterns when planning their travel. No one wants to purchase a habitually delayed or cancelled flight if they can avoid it. This integrated information will markedly improve subscriber's quality of travel.

"We are extremely pleased to offer our customers all the global flight performance statistics provided by FlightStats as a valuable addition to the services and information we currently provide at ExpertFlyer," says Chris Lopinto, co-founder of ExpertFlyer.com. "ExpertFlyer was created to provide business travelers and frequent flyers with all the information they need to make informed travel decisions.

We understand that the information provided by FlightStats is an important dimension in the decision process for securing specific itineraries that fit their unique needs. Now, subscribers to ExpertFlyer will have all the information they need to create the best travel outcome and experience," Lopinto added.

ExpertFlyer.com has built a reputation for providing its customers with unbiased views of all the information needed to build the perfect travel itinerary based on price, upgrade availability, Award tickets, flexibility and other air travel factors important to today's business traveler. The information provided by FlightStats becomes a perfect addition to ExpertFlyer's existing services and gives its customers additional information they need in one location. FlightStats provides a real value-add to ExpertFlyer customers and will help ensure a pleasurable and uneventful travel experience.

FlightStats provides the most up-to-date flight information available today. Capturing information from literally hundreds of industry sources, and tracking virtually every scheduled flight around the world in real-time, FlightStats then archives all of this information into a data warehouse. Every two weeks, FlightStats runs statistical analysis on every flight operated or marketed in the previous sixty days to give travelers an accurate picture of not only the likelihood of delay on a flight or route, but the likely severity of that risk. No other system provides this kind of actionable information. ExpertFlyer will deliver this timely, complete, accurate and uniquely relevant intelligence to its users to improve their quality of travel.

For ExpertFlyer's customers, having this information alongside flight information, upgrade availability, Awards tickets and Seat maps, allows them to further customize their travel route based on whatever is important to them at the time - price, upgrades, seating or on-time arrival. Subscribers to ExpertFlyer.com can begin to enjoy the added benefits of FlightStats immediately.

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