Hopper offers real-time alerts with airfare prediction app

There is a lot of advice about when to buy a flight, but the "best price" for any given route can be elusive. Few people have the time or patience — or, let's face it, luck — to watch an airfare constantly and buy it at its lowest point.

To address that issue, travel data company Hopper released a mobile app Wednesday that will notify users as soon as a preferable price is available on a desired flight.

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"A lot of the flight alert products others are offering are almost a daily digest," Patrick Surry, chief data scientist at Hopper, told Mashable. He says that a digest could be too slow to get to customers when a great price is available. "The real-time side of it is really important." Read more...

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