Level Skies Editorial
The act of purchasing airline tickets can cause any business traveler, weathered or new, to start to sweat. People always seem to believe they’ve got the best grasp on when to buy tickets to get the best prices, but airlines continue to shock and depress their ticket buyers with rises in prices just days before a planned trip. Ryan, Brandon, and Christopher, creators of the fresh new fare flexibility website Level Skies, have all been victims of this disruptive and costly fare change. Ryan had a particularly entertaining, albeit upsetting, airfare horror story. He and his buddies had planned a bachelor party, but they weren’t positive on the dates. Once settled, he found the tickets he desired, originally around $300, had shot up to over $600. After a few too many strikes, the airline game was finally out, and Level Skies was brought into existence to aid all grieving travelers.
Flexfare is the name of their game. If a business traveler, or leisure traveler for that matter, wants to take a trip, Level Skies allows them to lock in prices over as many as three days on both departure and return flights. This means a traveler does not need to know any specific dates when locking in their airfare. In order to make all of this work, a diligent eye had to be kept on airfare, learning how it worked, and statistical models had to be created to figure out what prices could be locked, allowing Level Skies to offer this flexibility.
Flex Fares are offered at most major US cities, including San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and New York, and many of the main airports. The Level Skies team is working diligently to add more to the list, but keeping it slow is their goal: “We’re all about rolling out at a steady pace, and not trying to offer flex fares to every single airport, immediately,” said Christopher. Doing it right is better than doing it fast, and encountering a list of errors and disappointments from end-users is not a desirable effect. The Level Skies website is a prize due to the time spent working on it by the team. “We want a site that allows people to recognize us!” And recognize their users do. The site is laid out in such a way that guides the traveler step by step. Simplification of websites is a trend that is still going strong; even sites such as Expedia revamped their interface. It made sense to follow the simplistic suit, and it is definitely paying off.
Now that Level Skies exists, it will be that much easier to book a trip to and from nearly any major city in the US. You can put down the antiperspirant- just go to www.LevelSkies.com and let them take a little bit of pressure off your shoulders.