PriceGrabber.com is the first travel-shopping site to include actionable FlightStats performance metrics to help travelers book more successful travel

Portland, Or – PriceGrabber.com has today released the Internet’s first air travel shopping site that presents unique pre-purchase intelligence of flight history and reliability from FlightStats directly into flight options. FlightStats, available from Conducive Technology, is the worldwide leader in real-time, historical and predictive flight information.

In this unique integration, PriceGrabber.com’s itinerary options are presented with red, yellow or green clock icons to represent the on-time flight performance of each segment of the flight. Hovering over the icons reveals the flight performance of each segment in the most recent sixty days. FlightStats Ratings show the score for the flight, and the components included in the score – number of occurrences of the flight in the past sixty days, percentage of those flights performing on time (within 15 minutes of schedule) and the average length of those delays. This unique rating is the first to consider both the frequency and severity of flight delays.

“The PriceGrabber travel search feature lets travelers buy smarter,” says Jeff Kennedy, CEO of Conducive Technology. “With fewer direct flights, PriceGrabber.com’s shopping features show me which options put me at risk of missing my connection, or suffering long delays - before I buy. That has enormous value.”

Kennedy continues, “Price continues to be a key influence in consumer travel buying, but I don’t know anyone who would incur a predictable and avoidable missed connection, cancellation or frustrating travel experience for a few dollars difference in ticket price.” PriceGrabber Travel helps buyers identify the best performing flights with FlightStats filters and sorting options. PriceGrabber.com delivers unique and valuable information to help buyers make more informed flight purchasing decisions.

About PriceGrabber.com
PriceGrabber is a leading provider of online comparison shopping services that allows millions of consumers to search and compare information about products, services, merchants and sellers in order to make an educated purchase decision. Through continued innovation and consistent focus on providing the best comparison-shopping experience on the Internet, PriceGrabber has established itself as one of the most trusted and effective online destinations for savvy shopping. By using PriceGrabber, shoppers can instantly find and compare millions of unique products and services from thousands of merchants and sellers in 22 product and service channels, thereby enabling users to find the right product/service from the right merchant/seller at the best price. Millions of online shoppers have saved considerable time and money by making PriceGrabber an integral part of their shopping process. The company also powers comparison shopping functionality for a network of leading Internet sites, including MSN Shopping, AskJeeves, About.com and Comcast, thus providing millions of users across these sites access to the PriceGrabber comparison shopping solution. The company offers comparison-shopping in English (at www.pricegrabber.com), Spanish (at www.preciomania.com) and Portuguese (at www.precomania.com) as well as international sites in Canada and the United Kingdom. PriceGrabber is headquartered in Los Angeles.
PriceGrabber is a registered trademark, and PriceGrabber.com and BottomLinePrice are trademarks of PriceGrabber.com, LLC. Other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

About Conducive Technology
Conducive Technology Corp. is a data services provider focused on delivering innovative information solutions to the travel and logistics industries. Conducive's FlightStats product delivers real-time and historical flight performance information that helps customers immediately lower their travel and shipping costs, and improve customer service. FlightStats’ information can deliver tremendous value at each stage of the travel or shipping transaction, by informing supplier and booking decisions, driving status and notification services, and enhancing post-flight performance analysis. Conducive Technology has broad experience in travel, including development of high-volume e-commerce web sites and web infrastructure for several major airlines. The privately held company is based in Portland, Oregon.

More information about FlightStats can be found at www.flightstats.com, information about Conducive is available at www.conducivetech.com.

Trademarks mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.

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