Comments on: Yapta’s Glitch-Filled Launch On the Web

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:44:52 +0000

After visiting the Yapta website and setting up a price watch, I thought Yapta was an answer to prayer. However, I’ve found that when I visit the website and click to update the listed fare price, it gives me a new price – and then when I go to the airline’s website, the price is always differenct, and so far always more. When I go back to Yapta and click to update the fare again, it gives me a price higher that on the website! This is within a period of a minute or two. Yapta isn’t working right, and until it does, it is useless.

By: Shelly

Shelly — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:10:02 +0000

Yapta is NEVER accurate!! Not with Delta flights anyhow. For weeks they show Delta flights from the States to Cancun as being $200 some, then when you click to purchase it takes you to Delta and shows the tickets costing well over $900.

Makes no sense!!!

By: The Cranky Flier » Orbitz Price Assurance Has Plenty of Holes But Still Marginally Useful

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:04:01 +0000

[...] with Yapta and book directly with the airline to save the fee. Or if you’re concerned about Yapta’s reliability, you could just use brute force and check it yourself. Still, I know a lot of people won’t [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:49:17 +0000

While you’re not able to track Northwest fares by entering your ticket confirmation info, Yapta can track Northwest fares that are delivered as part of its flight search results. (From my perspective, adding flight search is a big win for Yapta over it’s previous version.) So far, the pricing updates I’ve received from the site have been on the mark. I routinely cross-search a number of sites (including NWA’s) and have found the same airfares as on Yapta.

By: David

David — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:23:14 +0000

I’ve all in all had pretty decent luck with Yapta. I too have my complaints, but all in all I’ve found it to be a useful tool.

My biggest complaint is that it seems to track the flights in your itinerary and not the itinerary itself. Sure, you put in your confirmation code, but god forbid the airline changes the flight numbers (thank you Delta). Eventhough the confirmation hasn’t changed, it is unable to adjust to the new flight numbers.