Opened for operation in 2004, Kayak was formed by co-founders of Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz. Kayak offers its customers travel deals to locations including United States, Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America and the South Pacific.
FareCompare was co-founded in March 2006 by Graeme Wallace, the company's CTO, and Rick Seaney, CEO of the company. FareCompare offers its customers deals on national and international travel.
FareCompare allows customers to compare searches of cheap flights side-by-side. Kayak, on the other hand, offers comparisons of hotels and car rentals, as well as flight options. FareCompare offers other services like real-time alerts of reduced air fare prices, top ten ranked travel blogs, mileage travel deals for frequent fliers, and a calendar showing cheapest departure dates. Kayak has an itinerary management tool, price alerts, and flight status updates.
Kayak's signature services include a one-stop-shop for flights, cars, and hotel deals, deal suggestions for all-inclusive vacations and cruises, and "My Trip" save options. FareCompare's signature services include a when-to-fly flight search featuring flexible calendar searching, where-to-go flight deal finder to help find the cheapest days and times to fly, how-to shop travel advice that has tips to help with buying airline tickets to avoid the hidden costs of flying, and when-to-buy shopping advice from FareCompare CEO Rick Seaney.
FareCompare's blog offers information on various topics related to flying and vacationing. Updated information is posted periodically on various topics like "Lesser-Known Airline Fees: The Ones You Don't Hear About." FareCompare also has a travel advice section with information on travel guides and travel tips.
Kayak offers a tools section that shows trends of who searches for what and tips on finding low fares. There is also a reference section on Kayak showing airline fees and airports around the world.
