cFares.com - Wholesale Airfare Search Tool

Cfares is an airfare search tool with a few unique features. You can do the usual low airfare search for free, or you can pay $50 a year to have access to below-market wholesale fares. You can also hunt for the lowest price as a paid (or Platinum) member through their cAgent concierge service, which is a bid-based fare finder. You put in a bid and cAgent sees if an airline can match it. This service is limited to international flights at the moment. Cfares launched a few new features recently, including an enhanced dashboard charting the comparison points between its service and other industry leaders. This display indicates your search results in a chart showing the differences between flight time and airline, offering more transparency to airfare search and where to find the cheapest fare.

We make these promises to you: You will find the widest selection of travel options at the lowest prices. On cFares, you will find deals from every available source, including airlines, wholesalers, and online travel agencies. No one else can provide you a wider range of choices. Your experience will be relaxing and pleasant. You will find our site both easy to use and informative. We work diligently to present the complex information about travel options clearly so that you can quickly select the best deal for you. Your personal information will be properly safeguarded. You can trust that any personal information you give us will be kept safe. Under no circumstance will we disclose or share your information with any unauthorized third party. Moreover, we will only communicate with you regarding customer service issues, or where you have given us permission to share news and updates about the industry or our services.

With its access to wholesale rates and its bidding service, cFares is a viable competitor in this somewhat crowded field. They had a strong emphasis on customer service in their description of themeselves, and seem committed to updating and growing the site and its offerings. They recently received $4 million in investor capital to grow the service.

In my quick international fare search, the prices were not any less expensive than I got on other sites, even looking at the wholesale prices. Of course I did not try the bidding process. Still, do they have some kind of guarantee or proof that the wholesale prices are a less expensive deal? If I was going to pay $50 a year for this service, I would want to make sure I was saving at least $50 on my purchases. Where are the testimonials or guarantees from the site?