11Jan / 2013

Hipmunk News: Discover New Flight Deals From Your City

Start booking those trips for 2013 and save money while you’re at it with Hipmunk’s new Flight Deals! Try Flight Deals here.

Hipmunk Flight Deals are an easy way to find the lowest airfare online from your major U.S. city to other U.S. destinations. Simply select your city from 50 of the most popular origin cities listed. You’ll then see Flight Deals from that city to 12 destinations with low airfare. These travel deals are the best roundtrip deals over the next 30 days, so act fast if you see a price you can’t pass up. Too busy to check for updated deals? To make it even easier, enter your email address and have Flight Deals sent directly to your inbox twice a week.

Here’s a guide to start discovering Flight Deals:

1. Select your city of origin

2. Enter your email address to have Flight Deals sent directly to your inbox

3. Explore low roundtrip airfares from your origin city

4. See the details of Flight Deals for a specific destination

Once you decide on the perfect dates and price, just click on the price and get to booking!

Whether you’re spontaneous or a planner, flight deals are sure to help you find amazing deals on airfare. Happy deal searching!

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16Dec / 2011

On-Board Virgin America’s First Flight to Palm Springs

Today, I got the amazing opportunity to take Virgin America’s Inaugural Flight to Palm Springs. The fun started at the gate in SFO’s beautiful Terminal 2 where we received the red carpet send-off appetizers, champagne, cosmos and were crooned by old-timey Rat Pack impersonators.

David Cush, Virgin America CEO, and Steve Pougnet, Mayor of Palm Springs, both gave speeches thanking everyone for coming along, and then Sir Richard Branson took the mic letting everyone know how excited he was to open the new route to PSP. He mentioned he’s never been to Palm Springs and joked because it’s always been so expensive! Haha, well, now that Virgin America is flying there, he’s making the trip—in style!

And here he is cutting the tape with the mayor of Palm Springs.

When our wheels touched down, the Palm Springs Fire Dept. issued a water canon salute, which is a tradition for Virgin America when launching a new route.

Another red carpet reception…

and then off to the party on the tarmac…

I’ll be tweeting some more from the reception at The Riviera hotel tonight from both @thehipmunk and @jacqattack. Stay tuned!

Cheers, and congrats Virgin!

—Jacqueline

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12Dec / 2011

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Here’s a quick demo of Hipmunk flight search, and what’s going on in the background.

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