Rick Seaney

CEO, FareCompare L.P.
WHEN: Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 12:05 pm - 12:45 pm
TOPIC: Buy Now or Buy Later

Rick has become one of the foremost airfare experts in the industry. His popular new generation air travel website, FareCompare.com, (a free service to consumers-does not sell tickets) combines powerful new technology, with expert advice and insider tips, to empower consumers to make the best airfare buying decision. Rick is especially proud of his media partnership with a leading business publication; he provides the data for the popular “Wall St. Journal/FareCompare.com Business Travel Index” which the paper began publishing this spring. He is regularly quoted in newspapers around the country. The Associated Press and Reuters News Service routinely publish FareCompare airfare data and interview Rick regarding airfare and airline industry news and trends. Recently he has been featured in air travel segments on national TV shows including ABC’s Good Morning America & The Today Show. Rick intimately understands both the technical and the consumer aspects of finding low cost airfares. He has the luxury of instant access to proprietary FareCompare software tools that rapidly process tens of millions of fares several times a day for the best deals. FareCompare gets this new airfare pricing information in front of consumer’s hours before it shows up anywhere else, including the most well known sites or even the airline websites themselves. Rick received his degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas where he studied Mathematics and Computer Science. He was hired by Mobil Oil, while still going to college, to run their computer system and became a consultant to the company upon graduation. During the 1980’s, Rick was deeply involved with high-end computing technology that processed and mined huge quantities of oil and gas exploration data. In the late 1990’s, he decided to get into Internet technologies and move away from the oil and gas industry, and in 1999, Rick founded XXI Technologies. During 2001, XXI Technologies began building a system for dynamic travel packaging. By 2004, FareCompare L.P. was established for building proprietary software to process airfare information, and in 2006, FareCompare.com, the present consumer airfare website debuted on the Internet. Rick’s latest passion (besides making sure consumers never overpay for airfare again) is helping airline passengers learn about their rights, and working to improve customer service issues. Follow what Rick is doing daily on his new blog at www.RickSeaney.com.